Category: activism
By nobugsonme on Apr 10, 2008 in Adriano Espaillat, Andrew Lanza, Ann Margaret Carrozza, Audrey I. Pheffer, Bob Reilly, Carl Marcellino, Catherine Nolan, Charles J. Fuschillo, D. Gordon, Darryl C. Towns, Elizabeth Little, Ellen Young, Eric T. Schneiderman, Harvey Weisenberg, James F. Brennan, James Seward, John Sabini, Joseph Robach, José Serrano, Jr., Kenneth P. LaValle, Luis M. Diaz, Margaret M. Markey, Martin Dilan, Martin Golden, Michael N. Gianaris, NY, Peter J. Abbate, Richard N. Gottfried, Rory I. Lancman, Ruben Diaz, Shirley L. Huntley, Stephen M. Saland, Suzi Oppenheimer, Thomas Morahan, Toby Ann Stavisky, Velmanette Montgomery, activism, bed bug legislation, bed bug task force, bed bugs, bed bugs in schools, bedbugs, new york, new york city, new york state, new york state assembly, new york state senate, politics, senate | 1 Comment
Remember the bill introduced by Michael Gianaris and passed in the NYS Assembly last May? We were happy the Assembly passed it.
But Bill A6667a later died in the NYS Senate in January of this year.
The good news is that the bill has now been amended and approved by the Assembly once again as A6667b. […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 3, 2008 in activism, bed bug infested, bed bug treatment, bed bug-infested refuse, bed bugs, dedicated trash pickup, delivery trucks, furniture delivery, how to avoid bed bugs, mattress delivery, politics, tri-state, write a letter | 1 Comment
A reader in the NY/NJ/CT tri-state area wrote tonight to tell me this story.
The reader, who has suffered much from bed bugs and was discarding a cherished piece of wooden furniture only after a long fight with bed bugs and many treatments. It was wrapped in sealed plastic and labeled as being infested with […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 25, 2008 in activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, new york, new york vs. bed bugs, nyc | 7 Comments
Remember when I said that a number of New York bedbuggers were organizing a plan to call for local officials to take action on the bed bug situation in NYC?
Well, it’s happening.
New York vs. Bed Bugs, (slogan: “NYC is the underdog!”) declares:
We believe that the city should lead the fight against bed bugs.
From Australia to […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 1, 2008 in BC, DTES, VANDU, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, british columbia, canada, community, downtown eastside, grassroots, homelessness, poverty, poverty olympics, vancouver, vancouver 2010 | 0 Comments
Vancouver | Homes Not Games
Originally uploaded by ardenstreet
Graffiti from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Remember VANDU? They’re the grassroots community group in Vancouver that got a grant and implemented a plan to help fight bed bugs in Vancouver’s beleaguered Downtown Eastside.
Well, they’re back at it, this time as one of the sponsors of this weekend’s […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 30, 2007 in 311, Lexington, activism, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in colleges, bed bugs in schools, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, california, cincinnati, department of health, government response to bed bugs, how to eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, hpd, kentucky, low-income housing, marymount manhattan college, mayor bloomberg, new york city, new york city department of education, new york daily news, nyc, nyc dohmh, nyc housing and preservation department, nycdoe, ohio, public housing, san francisco, tenants and landlords | 15 Comments
The lead story in the “News” section of today’s New York Daily News is on bed bugs. That’s good: it’s always good to see bed bugs in the news.
It’s not a particularly helpful story, however.
For starters, there are inaccuracies. Let’s start with this caption below a photo of an adult bed bug:
Unfed […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 13, 2007 in activism, bed bug epidemic, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, bombs, craigslist, curbside, dr. louis sorkin, education, entomologists, furniture, get rid of bed bugs, good ideas, government, government response to bed bugs, greenpoint, health, health department, history, how to get rid of bed bugs, media, multi-unit buildings, new york, new york magazine, news, nyc, pest control, prevention, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public health, secondhand, signs and symptoms, treatment, usa, used furniture | 6 Comments
New York Magazine has a new bed bug story dated November 12th (print edition of 11/19), by Melissa Kirsch.
It contains lots of solid advice about not picking up curbside furniture, being wary of Craigslist finds, and searching for fecal spots and blood stains. But it also contains some advice we don’t normally […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 8, 2007 in Donna Freydkin, Greenpointers, USA Today, activism, awareness, bed bug bites, bed bug epidemic, bed bug garbage, bed bug hotels, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, dr. michael potter, dr. michael raupp, dr. stephen kells, dumpster diving, entomologists, get rid of bed bugs, good ideas, greenpoint, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, journalist, journalists with bed bugs, new york, news, nyc, spread, stories, tossing stuff out, travel and bed bugs, treatment, usa | 12 Comments
There is so much bed bug news now, that blogging even half of the major articles that come across my web browser is too much. I offer a selection, as well as an interesting tidbit from a NYC blogger. More news forthcoming, including an update on Cincinnati, and some exciting developments in San […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 5, 2007 in Chris Eddy, Chris Monzel, Cincinnati City Council, Cincinnati Health Department, Cincinnati town hall meeting, Cincinnati town meeting about bed bugs, Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency, Council On Aging for Southwestern Ohio, Hamilton County Public Health, Mohammad Alam, Susan C. Jones, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, government response to bed bugs, health, health department | 6 Comments
… you might want to go to this meeting tonight (11/5).
Peggy O’Farrell reports for the Cincinnati Enquirer vis Cincinnati.com:
Learn more about how officials are responding to bedbug infestations in Cincinnati at a town hall meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency, 1740 Langdon Farm Road, Bond Hill.
State Rep. Dale Mallory […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 27, 2007 in Cadwalader, activism, allergies, apartments, awareness, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, bloomberg, cambridge, colleges, condominiums, consumer, curbed, denial, detection, good ideas, gossip, harvard, health, hotels, ignorance, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, mental health, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, public education, public health, real estate, rumors, spread, tenants, treatment, usa, we're doomed, workplace | 0 Comments
Curbed.com, the real estate blog, claims that 30 Lincoln Plaza, currently being redeveloped into pricey condominiums (Curbed mentions a price of $1,185,000 for 647 sq/ft one bedrooms), is infested with bed bugs:
UPPER WEST SIDE—It seems there is a little detail about the condo conversion at 30 Lincoln Plaza that may have been overlooked: “You failed […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 19, 2007 in activism, alberta, apartments, awareness, bed bug blame game, bed bug refugees, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, canada, detection, disabled, elderly, eviction, government, ignorance, information and help, landlords, legal, multi-unit buildings, new jersey, notification, prep, public education, social services, tenants, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 17 Comments
The Daily Record reports that a landlord is trying to evict George Veghte, a disabled man from Rutgers Village, a complex in Parsippany, NJ. He asked for help with his bed bugs. They told him to prep, but he could not follow all steps on his own.
His lease was terminated Sept. 27, about […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 23, 2007 in Waterbury Health Department, activism, apartments, bad ideas, bed bug refugees, bed bugs, bedbugs, connecticut, health, houses, ignorance, journalist, kill them now, landlords, loopy ideas, low-income housing, misinformation, multi-unit buildings, news, public health, spread, treatment, usa, waterbury | 8 Comments
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Waterbury, Connecticut has had a recent bed bug outbreak in a number of locations. Last week, we were told in the Republican-American online of these locations with bed bug infestations, which had been reported to the Health Dept.:
553 South Main St. (two […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 18, 2007 in activism, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, landlords, low-income housing, ontario, tenants, tents, thestar.com, toronto | 3 Comments
This update from citynews.ca complicates matters: tenant and landlord are now playing the “bed bug blame game.” Landlord says her couch is “the source” of bed bugs, so she must have moved them in two weeks ago. Tenant says she did not have them in her old apartment.
Here’s a new article from theStar.com […]
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