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Summertime links

Published by Tim McNulty on .

Summertime

Welcome to what's basically summer. Some sleepy weekend links:

The fight over county weights & measures -- and whether Controller Chelsa Wagner can keep her name on stickers hither and yon -- comes to Allegheny County Council this week. County exec Rich Fitzgerald (who was a no-show at a Wagner budget event last week) is trying to take the responsibility over. (Len Barcousky)

Keystone Progress says state lawmakers are fleeing the conservative legislation-writing group ALEC, but many of them say they had little involvement with it. (Laura Olson)

Melissa Hart is officially running for the GOP bid in the Aug. 7 special election to fill Jane Orie's state Senate seat. "The person to send to get the most done in those two years [left in the term] is someone who has been there before," she told Laura.

Photo: John Heller/PG. Tim Olson and his son, Christopher, 4, both from Highland Park, get wet in the fountain in Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville during Memorial Day services.

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