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Staff and day program participants from Pittsburgh Mercy Intellectual Disabilities Services place flags on the graves of veterans at the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, May 23, 2018, for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday weekend. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, JULY 15, AND THEREAFTER – FILE – In this Jan. 22, 1996, file photo, the American Wind Symphony Orchestra barge Point Counterpoint II rests aground and on top of several cars, as front-end loaders remove ice left by Allegheny River flooding on the Allegheny Wharf in Pittsburgh. As of 2017, Point Counterpoint II has brought music from the rivers of Pittsburgh to American towns and European capitals for 41 years. Now, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and conductor Robert Austin Boudreau are trying to save the 195-foot-long concert boat from being repurposed to serve as a derrick barge at a shipyard in Houma, La. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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Pennsylvania Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, leaves a committee meeting at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, July 10, 2017. For the second straight year, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf will let a state budget bill become law despite the fact that it is badly out of balance as he presses Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Legislature to approve a tax package big enough to avoid a credit downgrade. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Pennsylvania House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, leaves a committee meeting at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, July 10, 2017. For the second straight year, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf will let a state budget bill become law despite the fact that it is badly out of balance as he presses Pennsylvania's Republican-controlled Legislature to approve a tax package big enough to avoid a credit downgrade. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, speaks during the Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, May 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, speaks during the Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, May 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, speaks during the Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon in Harrisburg, Pa., Monday, May 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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In this photo made on Friday, March 17, 2017, a baseball card is stuck behind the stone marking the the grave site for baseball player Josh Gibson is shown at Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Gibson, who played for two Negro League baseball teams in Pittsburgh and is considered one of the sport's greatest home run hitters, is featured in an opera about his life called "The Summer King." It has its world premiere April 29, 2017 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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In this photo made on Friday, March 17, 2017, a sign at Allegheny Cemetery points up the hill to the grave site for baseball player Josh Gibson in Pittsburgh. Gibson, who played for two Negro League baseball teams in Pittsburgh and is considered one of the sport's greatest home run hitters, is featured in an opera about his life called "The Summer King." It has its world premiere April 29, 2017 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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In this photo made on Friday, March 17, 2017, the grave stone for baseball player Josh Gibson is shown at Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Gibson, who played for two Negro League baseball teams in Pittsburgh and is considered one of the sport's greatest home run hitters, is featured in an opera about his life called "The Summer King." It has its world premiere April 29, 2017 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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This March 11, 2017 photo shows The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, W.Va. (S.M. Christman via AP)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EST.- An Ariel view of Lock No.5 in Schenley near by Kiski River spills into the Allegheny. (Louis B. Ruediger /Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)
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In this Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 photo, displayed is a view of downtown Pittsburgh on the screen of a part of a virtual reality set that teachers are learning with during a class at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit in Homestead, Pa. (Nate Smallwood /Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)
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In this Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 photo, Amy Williams, a teacher at Elizabeth Forward Middle School, practices with a virtual reality set during a class at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit in Homestead, Pa. (Nate Smallwood /Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)
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In this Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 photo, a class about virtual reality technology in the classroom is led for teachers from Allegheny and Westmoreland County at Allegheny Intermediate Unit in Homestead, Pa. (Nate Smallwood /Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP)
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, speaks before Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2017-18 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, left, and Gov. Tom Wolf shake hands before Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2017-18 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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FILE – In this Feb. 9, 2016, file photo, Gov. Tom Wolf, center, delivers his budget address for the 2016-17 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate, as the speaker of the state House of Representatives, state Rep. Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, left, and Lt. Gov. Mike Stack, right, listen at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. Wolf's administration notified state officials and employees Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, that he wants to consolidate four agencies into a single state Department of Health and Human Services, as the first-term Democratic governor deals with a massive budget deficit and a Republican-controlled Legislature averse to raising taxes. (AP Photo/Chris Knight, File)
