PRT’s announcement is welcome news for riders who use public transit to get to class, work and countless destinations. But the work from the legislature is far from over. We must secure a permanent sustainable revenue source for transit and transportation. www.wesa.fm/development-...

Single. Payer.

Our family’s health care premiums will roughly double next year, and my Democratic Senator will tepidly be going along with the spending plan to make it happen.

Today, and every day, we always remember. 🇺🇸

A couple months after the GOP Congress voted to gut Medicaid to give themselves a tax cut, millions more with private insurance are set to incur massive premium hikes. This on top of a softening job market and increasing costs for utilities and basic necessities.

Pittsburgh will always be a union town. Wishing everyone a happy and safe #LaborDay!

Good to attend an open house in Lebo this evening by Toole Design, who will be formulating a joint Active Transportation Plan between Mt. Lebanon and Dormont!

Great to see this! I know Row House Hollywood has been delayed more times than Infrastructure Week, but the theater really will be a great (re-)addition to the South Hills.

Outstanding news overnight. Solidarity always wins. ✊🏻

A pretty cool setting on Potomac Avenue today 👀 Always exciting when your community can be featured on the small screen! 📺

The Pennsylvania Senate was in session for *one day* in the month of August with a budget that is six weeks late in order to vote for an unserious transit funding bill they know will not pass the House, and they don’t come back until September 8.

Republicans in the Senate wanted sustainable funding sources to address, among other things, public transit. They received a bill from the @pahousedems.com to do that. Now the party of “fiscal responsibility” wants to swipe money from capital funds to “fix” the problem. Completely unserious.

The state house is retuning to vote in a few days to continue budget work and vote on a bill to fund transit. The upper chamber doesn’t come back for a month. The state senate is broken, and new leadership is needed.

With last year’s National Night Out getting canceled due to rain, we were hopeful that the weather would cooperate this time around, and boy did it ever. Great to see so many come out and meet and greet our first responders and public safety personnel!

Outstanding time at our 5th annual “Ice Cream Social” this afternoon!

Thanks to all who came out for live music at Hillsdale Park today, and to those who have contributed so far for the “Back to School” drive to benefit the Dormont Free Pantry!

If any of yinz are looking for something to do next Saturday, I’m performing a 3 hour acoustic set 8/2 at Hillsdale Park in Dormont (corner of Hillsdale and West Liberty), which will also be a dropoff point for a Back-to-School Drive to benefit the Dormont Free Pantry! Hope to see you there!

This is incredibly impressive, and not at all surprising. Alex is one of the hardest workers in the business, and his work ethic and dedication will carry over through to November.

Great to catch a rally today in support of one of our nation’s greatest domestic achievements: the 60th anniversary of the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid. Today’s attacks on millions of Americans’ care should only reignite the movement for national universal coverage. #M4A

This is obviously great news. But the whole concept of “medical debt” is one that shouldn’t exist in the first place. We need to continue and expand the conversation about true universal healthcare coverage in America.

This is awesome. www.wesa.fm/90-5-wesa-st...

If any of yinz are looking for something to do next Saturday, I’m performing a 3 hour acoustic set 8/2 at Hillsdale Park in Dormont (corner of Hillsdale and West Liberty), which will also be a dropoff point for a Back-to-School Drive to benefit the Dormont Free Pantry! Hope to see you there!

As I noted months ago, healthcare costs are set to skyrocket for millions of Americans with coverage under the ACA, already in addition to millions more set to lose coverage due to catastrophic Medicaid cuts. All to blow up the debt and give billionaires tax breaks.

Fantastic showing today on West Liberty in support of sustainable public transit funding! Props to my colleague Jen Mazzocco for organizing, and thanks to Transit for All PA for continuing their advocacy!

Please join us tomorrow at 4:30PM on West Liberty Avenue in front of Dormont Junction to rally in support of transit funding! t.co/wkqjheQr59

Great time, great music, and great buttermilk (yes, buttermilk) at Dormont Day! Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸

I’ve represented countless people who collect a regular paycheck and also supplement their income with SNAP benefits, and who are on Medicaid because working full time isn’t enough. This myth that these benefits are only for freeloaders has been a gross GOP lie for decades.

At the end of the day this bill reflects that Trump has always been the perfect representation of GOP dogma for the last 45 years: selfishness, greed, a complete absence of empathy or humanity, disregard of principles, and contempt for the very voters whose values they claim to represent.

Also these actions from federal lawmakers will have crippling effects far and wide for the health and well-being of working people and families everywhere. Leaders at the state level who don't follow Sen. Costa's example to bring attention to this are severely missing the moment.

Just a gross, vile display of governance to hurt millions of people so billionaires can get a tax cut.

Fantastic scene down in Dormont Park today for “Pride in the Park”! Great weather, music, storytime, and the best part: Judge Wheatley officiating a wedding! Congrats once again to Dormont Comm. Dev. Corp. for a wonderful job planning this great event that is growing every year!

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The Senate will soon be voting on its reconciliation bill, which is estimated to rip away health coverage from 300,000 Pennsylvanians, 25,000 here in Allegheny County, hitting seniors, children, and new mothers the hardest. www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

Great time at the @lebodems.bsky.social’s summer picnic this afternoon!

Here's Dormont’s official statement on recent ICE activity in our community. Speaking only for myself, I’m grateful to our police department for its adherence to a policy that mirrors many similar ones in urban, suburban, and rural municipalities alike. (1)

Today and every day we honor the fight for freedom, justice, and equality. #HappyJuneteenth

Finally some good news.

Father’s Day dinner at Moonlit! 🍔 🍦

Celebrating all the dads and father figures in all of our lives, here and no longer with us, who’ve helped guide us over the years. Happy Father’s Day. 💙

Incredible scene in Lebo this afternoon, as well as all throughout our region, for the “No Kings” rally. Democracy is always worth fighting for.

News out of Minnesota this morning is horrifically tragic. I don’t know what the solution is but we can’t continue to function like this where acts of political violence become increasingly prevalent.

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Tomorrow is the final set of public hearings to speak on the record about how public transit is vital to you and your community! Register in advance here: www.rideprt.org/2025-funding...

Good to meet up with @roseforacc.bsky.social at his campaign kickoff at Trace Brewing tonight!

Was very happy to see many elected Dems advocate publicly for single payer in the US. Millions are estimated to lose their coverage under the GOP spending bill, and imo now is the time to recharge the healthcare debate to push for true universal coverage. www.unionprogress.com/2025/06/01/s...

The most cost-effective thing you can do to improve traffic and pedestrian safety is redesign the road. Moreover, if you improve pedestrian safety, you increase foot traffic in the area, helping the local businesses rather than hurting them. Win-win.

The Fairness Act would prohibit discrimination in housing, education or access to public accommodations. We join the PA House Democratic Caucus in Harrisburg to announce the reintroduction of the Fairness Act.

Happy Pride Month! Now and always, we must stand for and defend basic dignity, respect, and love for our LGBTQ+ neighbors. 🌈