Carl Redwood and Sam Schmidt are running as Independents for Allegheny Council. They're united by a background in community organizing, leftwing ideology, and a bold vision for the future of the county.
Standing outside of the Peoples Natural Gas building, protesters gave speeches, chanted and held cardboard signs expressing their frustration with the company and the fossil fuel industry. “We want people to understand that there is a better way,” Ilyas Khan, a sophomore linguistics major at Carnegie Mellon University, said. “We want Peoples Gas to understand.