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Byline: Julia Burdelski Aug. 30Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has launched a re-election campaign. The first-term mayor launched a new website announcing his bid for another four-year term. 'I'm running for [...]

Byline: Brian C. Rittmeyer May 16An Arnold slate headed by mayoral candidate Shannon Santucci claimed victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary. With 100% of precincts reporting, Santucci had about 68% of [...]

Byline: Joe Napsha May 11With a decision looming on what Sewickley Township should do with its closed recreation center in Herminie, Republicans will have a choice between an incumbent supervisor [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Oct. 21A long-serving mayor will face off against a college student running a third-party candidacy in the November election to decide Delmont's next mayor. Republican Alyce Urban, [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Oct. 21A long-serving mayor will face off against a college student running a third-party candidacy in the November election to decide Delmont's next mayor. Republican Alyce Urban, [...]

Byline: Natasha Lindstrom Oct. 5Mayoral candidates clashed Monday night over their visions for Downtown Pittsburgh, whether Wilkinsburg should merge into the city and how to improve relationships between police and [...]

Byline: Tawnya Panizzi Jun. 17Sharpsburg residents could have a choice for borough Mayor in the November election. The two-way race for the Democratic nomination between Brittany Reno and Joe Simbari, [...]

Byline: Megan Guza Jun. 9An activist group advocating for sex workers in the Pittsburgh area is calling on Democratic mayoral nominee Ed Gainey and other lawmakers to decriminalize sex work [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Jun. 8Voters may have a choice in the fall Pittsburgh mayoral election, if Tony Moreno claims the Republican nomination he earned by getting 1,379 write-in votes in [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson May 24Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto views his loss in last week's Democratic primary to be a big win for the city's progressive movement that he helped start. [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson May 19Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto conceded defeat to state Rep. Ed Gainey in a four-way Democratic primary race for mayor, positioning Gainey to become the first Black [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Mar. 10Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto will likely face a challenge from three other Democratic candidates in his bid for a third and final term as leader of [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Mar. 3Pittsburgh mayoral candidate Ed Gainey has raised more than $130,000 since January, his campaign announced Wednesday. The money, which totals $134,285.89, comes from 764 contributors from [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Jan. 23After Tony Moreno retired from the Pittsburgh police in 2018, he intended to move to Florida. But Moreno, 51, of Brighton Heights, said he had ideas [...]

Byline: Tom Davidson Jan. 20State Rep. Ed Gainey announced Tuesday he is challenging Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto in the Democratic primary. 'I'm running for mayor because I know that the [...]

Byline: Natasha Lindstrom May 22-- May 22--First-time political candidate John Andrejcik clinched a victory over incumbent Lower Burrell Mayor Richard Callender in Tuesday's Democratic primary, preliminary vote tallies show. Andrejcik, [...]

Byline: Natasha Lindstrom May 22-- May 22--First-time political candidate John Andrejcik clinched a victory over incumbent Lower Burrell Mayor Richard Callender in Tuesday's Democratic primary, preliminary vote tallies show. Andrejcik, [...]

Byline: Dillon CarrDec. 27--A Penn Hills councilman wants to be the municipality's next mayor. John Petrucci, 57, a Democrat of Penn Hills, announced Dec. 27 his intentions to run for [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio May 02--Political newcomers John Griffin Conley and Joe McAndrew have vowed to run clean campaigns for Oakmont mayor and plan to remain good neighbors as they battle [...]

Byline: Bob Bauder Oct. 22--The next Pittsburgh mayor's partnership with local foundations to recruit top administrators represents a historic change for a city where patronage jobs have traditionally fueled successful [...]

Byline: Mike Wereschagin May 23--Let's face it. It's not the most embarrassing thing he's ever done. New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, a former U.S. House member and tweeter of [...]

May 17--Lance: To Chuck Pascal. The Leechburg attorney and longtime political operative is running for three -- three -- offices in next week's primary election: mayor, borough council and school [...]

Byline: Mike Wereschagin May 12--Joe King delivered some bad news. King, the head of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local No. 1, had backed Jack Wagner in all of [...]

May 03--Laurel: To Jack Wagner. The Democrat Pittsburgh mayoral candidate says the long-running feud between departing Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and fellow Democrat mayoral wannabe Bill Peduto, one that has spilled [...]

Byline: Salena Zito March 15--Abdula Jamal Richardson hopes to appeal to Pittsburgh voters as the working man's candidate in the mayoral race. He's the underdog among seven Democrats in the [...]

Byline: Eric Heyl Feb. 20--Is it asteroid season? Barely a week after one large piece of space junk injured more than 1,000 people when it exploded over the Russian city [...]

Jan. 18--On the 'Watch List': --Nate Harper. Pittsburgh's police chief is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation. At issue: Did he play a role in awarding a city [...]

Byline: Bob Bauder Jan. 16--Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has raised more than double the money that Councilman Bill Peduto has in the race for mayor, a gap the Peduto campaign promised [...]

May 29--Restoring Pittsburgh: If you don't know the name Frank Vittor, you know the work of the late sculptor. He was behind such Pittsburgh classics as the Honus Wagner statue [...]

Byline: Adam Brandolph Oct. 27--Experts have mixed opinions about the importance of political endorsements on local elections. G. Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at […]

Byline: Jeremy Boren May 6--Pittsburgh lawmakers Tuesday unanimously approved restrictions on campaign contributions and no-bid contracts as the May 19 primary nears. The impending elections fostered an unusually chummy collaboration […]

Byline: Mike Seate Nov. 12--My family and I are lifelong Democrats, a distinction we share with a majority of Allegheny County residents. But my sister didn't vote for Democratic Mayor […]

Byline: David M. Brown Jul. 16--Republican mayoral candidate Mark DeSantis has put his campaign in higher gear than other recent GOP contenders for Pittsburgh's top office. When DeSantis today holds […]

Byline: Dimitri Vassilaros Mar. 26--Maybe being threatened with the 36-inch, 8,000 volt, Hot Shot SS36 cattle prod will motivate one of the city's roughly 36,000 registered Republicans to stand for […]