This past Tuesday I went to a fracking meeting on Laurel Ridge held by the Mountain Watershed Association (MWA) in Normalville, PA. There was a turnout of more than 20 people. They were discussing a proposed Shannon Compton Well Pad on Laurel Ridge. Presented below is the video of the meeting. Below that are downloadable […]

Last week I spoke with Matt Kelso of the Fractracker Alliance. They monitor fracking wells across the U.S. and educate the public on their health effects. Kelso is the data manager for the alliance. For those of you who are unfamiliar with hydraulic fracturing or fracking, the video above provides an overview. Basically, the process […]

This holiday season I continue to look at the SAIPE numbers from the Census bureau for trends in median income and poverty in 2022. The graph above shows the trend in median income for Cambria County from 1997-2022. It compares the county rate to the Pennsylvania and U.S. rates. Pennsylvania’s income level is virtually identical […]

I saw this article by a Julian Routh of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette where he reports on a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Cook Political Report of voters in the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin called The Blue Wall Project.  He highlights their responses to questions on implementing a Medicare for All […]

I haven’t blogged a lot about environmental issues on CSI without Dead Bodies.  That’s mostly because it’s a topic I do not have a lot of experience with like I do with health care.  Most of my health care blogs have moved over to Healthcare 4 All PA.  That does not mean that those issues […]