Scotti

“In 50 years, in 100 years, what do we know what the lagoon will be like?” said Mr. Scotti, the project’s head engineer.

The project was nearly an orphan — scorned even by the engineer who designed it and was known as the father of MOSE, Alberto Scotti.

The insurance coverage — which has always gone through Team Scotti, a Pittsburgh-based broker recently bought by NFP — protects teams from having to pay a player for time missed because of an injury stemming from the tournament.

At the February forum, candidate Socorro Keenan compared U.S. elections to other countries “where they know how to cheat,” while candidate Richard Scotti said he agreed with calls to do away with voting machines because “the data that they record in the evening is never the same in the morning.”

Scotti, graceful and alert, is a quiet presence but not a passive one.