Hello. My Name is Paul Ricci, MS MA. I have been a statistician/blogger for 20 years who has written on a variety of topics in and around the Allegheny Mountain Region of Pennsylvania. This project is an expansion of these efforts to further study issues facing the area without fluff. Below is a video introduction […]

Last Saturday the latest No Kings rally was held in Johnstown. Nick Brisini wrote this article on the spirited no Kings rally there. On October 17, No Kings Rallies were held in cities and towns throughout the country and Johnstown was no exception. The No Kings movement was started in 2025 by indivisible and the […]

Above is a graph showing the correlation between the % of poor mental health and the % with asthma in zip codes for the states of NY, PA, MD, WV, and VA. The data is from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Unmet Need Score map tool. The panel on the right shows zip […]

Why can’t our congressmen connect the dots? This post is reprinted from John Frederick’s Substack Allegheny Matters. The recent storms with 80 mph winds on Labor Day in the Johnstown area also underscore climate change’s impacts. An average five-year-old can draw a connect-the-dots picture, transforming a scattered bunch of numbers into a coherent image. And […]

by Paul Ricci The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) made a shipment of sutures to Cuba. The Trump Administration has ramped up sanctions to the island making life miserable there. The video above shows the Pittsburgh DSA chapter’s contribution to this shipment. Speakers in the video are Scott Tyson, Lisa Valenti and Tyler Blau. Below […]

On Wednesday, September 23, Sally Simpson of Unite Armstrong held a AI data center meeting in Kittanning, PA. It was at the United Steelworkers Local 159. Video of it is above. Panelists were: According to the website Cleanview, there are currently 15 operating data centers and 135 planned data centers in Pennsylvania. The map above […]

by Paul Ricci It was brought to my attention that there is a problem with the DTP vaccine coverage data in West Virginia so I deleted the graphs and the previous post on this issue. The mortality data is real so I left it in the post. Mortality is high in West Virginia. The graph […]

by Paul Ricci On Saturday, September 12, there was a protest against AI data centers in Homer City. This part of a sustained effort to stop the spread of these centers. The candidates for governor have heard the cries of the protesters and have at least modified their positions. There were art projects to show […]

By Paul Ricci Much has been made of the clash between Gov. Josh Shapiro and HHS secretary Robert Kennedy Jr with Kennedy disputing the 2 measles deaths in the state. The state maintains a dashboard showing the measles outbreak numbers in the Pennsylvania. I will now look at what these numbers are saying. The image […]

by Paul Ricci We received a large response to the post on the 100 least healthy zip codes in Pennsylvania. This time I thought that I would take a look at the other side of the coin. The data comes from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The 100 healthiest zip-codes in Pennsylvania as […]

by Paul Ricci On Saturday August 22, the 2026 Johnstown LGBTQ Pride Fest was held at the Cambria County War Memorial. It is also known as the 1st Summit Arena. It was organized once again by John DeBartola. It was indoors and in August because Central Park was still under renovation. DeBartola has criticized this […]