Welcome

Thank you for visiting my campaign website.  The 24 second video above is of former Allegheny County Chief Executive Jim Roddey talking about me on WQED-TV .  His words speak for themselves.

If you already voted early, there are still a number of things you can do to help.  If you haven't voted yet, then please do so on or before November 4, 2025.

For over three and a half decades I have worked for the betterment of Pittsburgh.  It has been a long family tradition.  Part of my family was here in the days of Fort Pitt before the City was formed.  As another part, my great-grandfather came over from Scotland and moved in with the Carnegie family on the Northside when Andy was a teen.  My father was born in Italy and after coming to this country at the age of 5, came to Pittsburgh after graduating Magna Cum Laudi in civil engineering -- by the time I was born, he was responsible for all of Allegheny County's bridges.

For over 4 decades I have spent much of my efforts exposing and fighting public corruption.  At times this has involved organizing local residents and filing court cases that have gone as high as the state and US Supreme Courts.  You can read more about my efforts here.

Recent Content

Letter to Voters

This letter to voters covers several structural solutions needed to improve City government. These include: creation of a Community Advisory Team that is open to all as a proactive public participation process; Parks, which needs to have a single department responsible instead of the 6 current bodies; Neighborhood Integrated Services Teams which coordinate all public services; Connecting the City to the airport via rapid rail in order to reverse the out-migration to the airport. It also lists a number of things that I have done over the years.

Move the airport into the city

When Pittsburgh bid for Amazon‘s new headquarters, access to the airport was a major factor.  Other major cities are connected by rail to their airports. It’s the modern standard. Philadelphia even has two rail lines to its airport and three rail stations inside its air terminal.

Allegheny Conference explained

The Allegheny Conference – Operations; Leadership; Staff; The Agenda; Conference Players; and Elected Officials – all briefly explained. Who they are; what they do; and how it all works

At stake in this City Council race:

An out-migration from the city has led to its decline. An unelected "government" tells elected officials what to do and set the public policy of making the airport area become the new central business district. Their plans entail building a new turnpike through District 2 neighborhoods.