The Jersey Journal reports (via nj.com) that Renée Meyers and Gail Krone, who work as cleaners at the County Administration Building on Newark Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey, asked a supervisor about whether there were bed bugs in the holding cells:
“All we wanted was someone to tell whether the holding cells in the […]

Marsha Stoltz provided a typical regional bed bug news story in The Record Sunday:
Creepy crawly creatures have always been a predictable, if dreaded, part of multi-housing life because of the ease with which they move from unit to unit along shared pipes, wires and cable lines.
Landlords and buildings managers typically address these concerns with monthly […]

Tropicana struggles to rebuild public image (note: allegations of bed bugs = bad for business)
Travel agent elucidates how bed bugs are bad for hotel business: “One of my customers requested Tropicana. Knowing what I knew, I felt I must tell them. God forbid if they got there and there were bedbugs,” (Sis Butler, sales rep., […]

Clip of the Day:
TheStar.com | Public Health must declare bedbug war
“The problem is spreading like flames all over town. Where are the people who will deal with this problem as if they were firefighters in front of a burning building?”

Bedbuggers, Are you all reading Joe Fiorito’s articles in the Star? You really […]

Uninvited roommates move in … and they bite
Wesleyan Arms, a 60-unit senior apartment complex in Red Bank, NJ, has bed bugs. Monmouth County Health Officer Sidney B. Johnson said “bedbugs are not a health issue because they do not transmit disease but that the insects do qualify as pests.”
(tags: monmouthcounty newjersey NJ sidneyBJohnson […]

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 […]

Some days, there’s so much bedbug news, I can’t keep up.
First, this item from NJ.com about an infested building South Jersey (Jamestown Square in Blackwood, NJ) makes me wonder: what if there was a newspaper item for every single infested building in New York?!? The New York Times would have to use a […]

The once-monthly pest spraying at this halfway house wasn’t keeping bed bugs away (of course it wasn’t!) so the staffers have got some steamers.
It’s a state residential substance abuse program for women nearing the end of a prison sentence. (Withdrawl: bad. Withdrawl plus formication brought on by a bed bug infestation? […]

This account of bed bugs in New Jersey by Meg Nugent, in yesterday’s Times-Ledger, paints a balanced picture.
It opens with a typical bed bug experience:
It was six months before Joan could finally go to sleep without a night light.
“I was convinced they were going to be on me — I pray to God I won’t […]

Bed bug news, even the important stuff that can make a difference, is often considered unimportant, and squeezed into a paragraph under the bottom of an article on something else.

NJ.com reported Friday that in Freehold, NJ,
Keith Hamilton said that bedbugs have returned to some local social-service facilities and asked if the county can make money […]

Click to see beagle Brody, of Cooper Pest Solutions in New Jersey, and trainer Jeff White, at work.

ABC7 just aired a story in their news at 5. It was less urgent than a blood-covered intruder in Coram, Long Island, but beat out the 60-year-old mother of twins. (Mazel tov, Mrs. Birnbaum!)
Here’s the transcript. The video is here (scroll down to Bed Bug Invasion in Edison Apartment Complex).
Seriously, the lead-in was […]