Allegheny
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The Pirates have been a perpetual laughingstock ever since Barry Bonds ditched the Allegheny for the San Francisco Bay after leading Pittsburgh to the National League Championship Series in 1992.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
“We built it for USAir,” Allegheny County executive Rich Fitzgerald said many years later, “hoping that they would grow jobs here, putting their hub and their headquarters here.”
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
He eventually was carted off and taken to Allegheny General Hospital in critical condition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
“If the climate is changing, and changing kind of rapidly, we have to develop potatoes that are adapted to the new climate,” Walter DeJong, a professor at Cornell University, told The Allegheny Front.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025
Natrona sat on the western bluff of the Allegheny River northeast of Pittsburgh.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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