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Barb Warwick

@barb4pgh.bsky.social
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Barb is a working mom living in the Four Mile Run corner of Greenfield. She is the Pgh City Councilmember for District 5. Personal account.

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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Remind me again how local leaders should just "stick to potholes" and keep quiet about international policy?
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
A community call to the PA DEP to stop a garbage transfer station next to Hazelwood homes and businesses; rezoning the D5 riverfront for a healthier, more prosperous future; exploring our parks, and so much more! This month's newsletter is a MUST MUST! Check it out and subscribe.😍 buff.ly/bJimCNG
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Nice story from Oakland Planning and Development Corporation by way of Payday Report on the passing of Kim Fellner and her family's contribution to affordable single-family housing in Oakland. paydayreport.com/rip-kim-fell...
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RIP: Kim Fellner, Who Left Behind a Community Land Trust in Pittsburgh
While Kim died this week, the legacy of affordable housing that she left behind in Pittsburgh will benefit many families for many years to come. In 2022, Kim wrote about why she decided to sell her pr...
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Shame on the Post-Gazette for exploiting the tragedy in Kerr County to score political points. It’s time for Pittsburgh Water to keep its promise to The Run and ensure that flooding in our neighborhood is fixed once and for all. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/PAP...
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RELEASE: Councilmember Warwick Response to Post-Gazette Editorial Blaming Residents for Lack of Flood Relief
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ACLU of Pennsylvania @aclupa.org · 30/06/2025
Thank you, Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Barb Warwick, for introducing legislation that would expand protections for the TLGBQIA+ community and move the city of Pittsburgh a step closer to decriminalizing sex work.
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Proposed Pittsburgh bills aim to shield LGBTQ+ residents, reduce penalties for sex workers
Pittsburgh City Councilwoman Barb Warwick on Tuesday introduced legislation that aims to protect LGBTQ+ people and reduce the penalty for sex workers. The bills come at a time when the LGBTQ+ communit...
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City Councilmember Barb Warwick @pghdistrict5.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our latest newsletter features updates on Councilmember Warwick’s three bills for Pride month, to protect LGBTQIA+ and marginalized communities. 🌈 Plus: street safety improvements, opportunities, and summer events in your community! buff.ly/E6xRQwl
Image alt text: photograph of City Council workers at City Hall with banners promoting the release of Councilmember Warwick’s three bills for Pride month, to protect LGBTQIA+ and marginalized communities. Standing at a podium is speaker Dena Stanley, Executive Director of TransYOUniting Pittsburgh.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Stellar response from City Council Prez Lavelle to the PPG's call to cut critical violence prevention funds. Gun violence is a scourge on Pgh and this $ has been instrumental in reducing it. TY, Councilman for speaking out...so disappointing that you had to. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/PAP...
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Council President Lavelle Responds to Post Gazette Editorial on Stop the Violence Trust Fund
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It's officially World Beard and Moustache Championship Day in the City of Pittsburgh! 🧔🏼‍♂️🧔🏾‍♀️🧔 facebook.com/events/s/202...
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
🚶🏼🚴🏼‍♂️🧑🏻‍🦽🏃🏻‍♂️🚴🏿‍♀️ Always a fun time at Open Streets PGH! Thank you @bikepgh.bsky.social for working all year to put on these events and showing us what a city looks like when #StreetsAreForPeople. 🚶🏼🚴🏼‍♂️🧑🏻‍🦽🏃🏻‍♂️🚴🏿‍♀️
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Fun night for everyone at Greenfield Family Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Thanks to all the advocates, community members, electeds & allies supporting 3 new City bills to protect our LGBTQIA+ neighbors and other vulnerable folx. Please also join TransYOUniting this Sun 06/29 to rally for our Trans community's right to gender-affirming care. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
They always close ranks at the end of the day.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
❤️💚🖤 Gorgeous morning for the Pittsburgh Juneteenth Parade! ❤️💚🖤
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Glad to stand with SEIU Healthcare and my colleagues across state, local, and fed govt to demand that UPMC stop the unlawful delays and agree to a free and fair union election for the nurses at Magee-Womens Hospital.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Proud to stand with Casa San José, SEIU, USW, Unite Here, Starbucks Workers United and unions around the US to demand the release of SEIU CA prez David Huerta. Make no mistake: ICE is not about safety, it's about terrorizing immigrants. Very glad to see so many Pghers come out to say not our city.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
"Dear Girl, Get Out!" www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: ‘Dear Girl, Get Out!’: A Young Palestinian Escapes an Israeli Strike
Video of a child escaping a burning building after an Israeli airstrike garnered widespread attention online. We found her in a hospital in Gaza and pieced together what had happened.
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City Councilmember Barb Warwick @pghdistrict5.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
This Saturday June 7th, from 5-10 PM, join CLP Hazelwood at the Hazelwood Brew House for the release of a limited-edition beer, the Carnegie Lager of Pittsburgh. Proceeds directly support the library. 🍻 📖 Learn more: buff.ly/9rxRYZL
Image alt text: promotional flyer for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Beer Launch on Saturday, June 7 2025, from 5-10PM at the Hazelwood Brew House on 5007 Lytle Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15207. Image of a book and a glass of beer on a wooden table, presumably at the brewery. More info here: carnegielibrary.org
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PGH District 8 @pghdistrict8.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A safer intersection at S. Aiken and Ellsworth is here! 📢 We advocated for this project in the 2022 budget, and thanks to the work of DOMI, this intersection now features: ✅ Ped countdown signals & audible pushbuttons ✅ Leading pedestrian intervals ✅ Updated signage ✅ Dark-skies compliant lighting
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
In Pittsburgh, property owners are responsible for their sidewalk, which is tough for lower-income home owners.This is an innovative solution to helping fix critical sidewalk gaps. Glad to see Hazelwood up next. Thank you Pgh DOMI for seeing this important work through. www.wesa.fm/development-...
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Pittsburgh aims to fix more battered sidewalks
Pittsburgh is expanding a program to repair busted-up sidewalks, footing part of the bill for low-income property owners.
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Rep. Summer Lee @repsummerlee.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Billionaires don’t have a constitutional right to own your government. Today @khanna.house.gov and I unveiled the Abolish Super PACs Act to get money out of politics and restore democracy for, of, and by the people. We must make it harder for billionaires + corporate interests to buy our politics.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Happy Pride!
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Please join us tomorrow, May 29 at Margaux to support Western PA Fund for Choice. bit.ly/Fund4Choice
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The nurses at UPMC Magee provide essential care for our region's moms, babies and others. As a union, they will have a seat at the table, helping ensure care decisions are based on patient health, not hospital profits. What's good for nurses is good for Pgh and SW PA. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
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Nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital announce intent to unionize
Staff at one of Pittsburgh's largest labor and delivery hospitals are unionizing. About 1,000 registered nurses and advanced practice professionals have filed notice with the National Labor Relations ...
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Love it when they say out loud what you knew all along. Hand over your park for our private shuttle road or forget about getting your flooding fixed.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Thank you to the residents who came out to demand that Pittsburgh Water (PWSA) reinstate funding for the Four Mile Run Stormwater project. After nearly 10 yrs and $8.7M spent on designs, it's time to deliver a solution to this devastating flooding once and for all. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
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Pittsburgh City Council member calls for restoration of stormwater project amid recent storms
Barb Warwick said that Pittsburgh Water has promised some sort of version of the project for nearly 10 years, with no progress.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Thank you, @gaineyformayor.com. What an honor to fight beside you for a kinder, more equitable city. It wasn't our night. But today we get up and keep doing the work to protect and uplift our most vulnerable residents and build a Pittsburgh for all.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
One hour to get to the polls! Let's GO!!! @gaineyformayor.com
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We don’t need a mayor who feels entitled to the job. We need a mayor who has earned it. That Mayor is Ed Gainey. @gaineyformayor.com newpittsburghcourier.com?p=392200
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Barb Warwick: Corey O’Connor was my City Council Rep. I’m voting for Ed Gainey.
Corey O’Connor was my City Council rep for 10 years. I’ve held that seat since Dec. 2022—giving me unique insight on the difference between his leadership style and that of Mayor Ed Gainey. During Cor...
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
💐Look! It's Mother's Day deja vu! Here's to all the families out there letting Mom do her thing...we love you so much! And don't forget to vote for @gaineyformayor.com on May 20! 💐
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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
O’Connor citing an NTSB report on the collapse of Fern Hollow bridge as proof that Mayor Gainey is letting our “bridges crumble” is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen come out from his campaign. Let’s be clear here - the collapse was the result of a failure of the Peduto admin who ignored
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"Once I saw O’Connor’s ad claiming credit, I felt obligated to be transparent with the people of Pittsburgh: He didn’t lead on paid leave, he nearly derailed it." triblive.com/opinion/lett...
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Letter to the editor: O’Connor nearly killed paid sick leave
Corey O’Connor is claiming credit for Pittsburgh’s paid sick leave policy in TV ads and mailers in his campaign against Mayor Ed Gainey. But the truth is, he almost killed it. I know this ...
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Some clarity for voters (and for @coreyoconnorpa.bsky.social) on how Pittsburgh spent its American Rescue Plan dollars. Link to the public record on final allocations. @gaineyformayor.com pittsburgh.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One of the most compelling takes I've seen on the upcoming Pittsburgh Mayoral election. Shared with permission from a post by the parent of a PPS highschool student.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“Real housing justice demands that we do both: remove outdated, exclusionary policies and put inclusive ones in their place,” Gainey said. “Inclusionary zoning ensures that affordability is built into every neighborhood, not just a few.” www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...
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Lot size bill advances in Pittsburgh City Council, leaving inclusionary zoning bill fate uncertain
A bill that would allow housing construction on smaller parcels of land has taken another step forward in Pittsburgh City Council.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Whether it is building new, preserving units, winning LIHTCs, kick-starting our Land Bank, winning $600M for res conversions, or pushing simpler zoning & transit-oriented dev, @gaineyformayor.com has been laser-focused on keeping Pgh affordable for everyone. www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-m...
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Who is right about Pittsburgh housing — Gainey or O’Connor?
Each Democratic mayoral candidate says they'd be better at developing affordable housing, and each offers data, but no one number says it all.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
More affordable housing coming our way downtown! www.wesa.fm/development-...
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Conversion of empty Downtown offices to affordable housing on Smithfield Street moves ahead
The transformation of a 120-year-old office building into apartments — some overlooking the Monongahela River — is underway at 4 Smithfield Street in Downtown Pittsburgh.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Links to those archives here, if Corey's team would like to cross check. 🙂 www.ura.org/pages/board-... hacp.org/about/board-... www.pittsburghpa.gov/Business-Dev...
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The URA has 5 years of annual reports on its website. The data for the housing tracker was pulled from URA, HACP, and City Planning board/commission meeting minutes, which have project details like exact addresses that wouldn't be in an annual report.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Corey's continued and baseless claims of corruption to deflect from Mayor Ed Gainey's accomplishments are an insult to our city workers and erode the public's faith government. It's a weird knee-jerk projection mindset that makes me wonder if this isn't the way they would run the city themselves.🧵
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Bottom line: While others talk, Ed Gainey gets it done. Props to Peduto though for coming up with a catchy name... More info and how to apply here: www.ura.org/pages/OwnPGH
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OwnPGH Homeownership Program
The OwnPGH Homeownership Program provides up to $90,000 to first-time homebuyers seeking to purchase a home within the City of Pittsburgh.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Mayor Gainey funded the program with $15M in ARPA money. Then URA designed and launched it in Jan 2023. Since then, more than 150 low- to moderate-income Pittsburghers - mostly women with kids - have used the program to buy their first home.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Peduto announced the concept of OwnPGH in March 2021, but never funded it. As a former City Councilmember, Corey O'Connor should know that an unfunded program is not a real program.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Lots of frantic posts coming from team Corey after last night's debate trying to disparage Mayor Gainey's incredible work on housing...so I thought I'd provide some clarity. 🧵
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Congrats on the debate @gaineyformayor.com. You crushed it.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
But don’t take my word for it…check out the tracker yourself. pittsburghpa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
...pricing long-time Pittsburghers out of the city. As for the numbers, even Corey knows that once construction starts, you can claim it as a win. Just like in he claims Flats on Forward in Squirrel Hill that was Under Construction when he left office but was Completed under Mayor Gainey.
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
To be fair, I get Corey’s confusion. You see, his pro-developer friends and donors only care about New Units. In fact, they would rather we focus on exclusively new market-rate housing, because that's how they make money. The problem is, that's been the approach for a decade plus here in Pgh...
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Barb Warwick @barb4pgh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Preserving decaying units is the most cost-effective way to secure affordable housing. Helping landlords make repairs in exchange for keeping a unit affordable allows them to keep renting to lower-income folks long into the future - even as rents in the neighborhood go up. So yeah, it "counts". 🧵
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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Did you know that after the collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge the city of Pittsburgh created a brand new Bridge management program? It offers transparency on the status of every bridge, steps taken to repair and maintain, & timelines for most critical repairs? www.pittsburghpa.gov/City-Governm...
A table showing bridges in Pittsburgh and timelines for repair and construction. Table available at: https://www.pittsburghpa.gov/City-Government/Boards-Authorities-Commissions/List-of-Boards-Authorities-Commissions/Bridge-Asset-Management-Program
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