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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 Oct 27, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, cincinnati, consumer, elderly, government, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, ohio, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, social services, spread, stories, tenants, treatment, usa | 2 Comments
We’ve been following the saga in Cincinnati, the first city in the USA to declare war on bed bugs.
This story from WLWT.com (channel 5) on Thursday indicates that the city is surprised by the persistence of bed bugs. It focuses on Cincinnati resident Samuel Blackmon.
On Friday, Blackmon showed off his apartment to some […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 14, 2007 in 311, Brooklyn, apartments, bed bug registries, bed bugs, bedbugs, bushwick, forums, government, housing laws, itchy hipsters, landlords, legal, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, paralysis, slumlords, spread, stories, tales of bed bug woe, tenants, treatment, usa | 15 Comments
Welcome to Brooklyn
Originally uploaded by TheGirlsNY
Bushwick, Brooklyn is home to two large dueling loft buildings: 248 and 255 McKibben Street. Yes, that’s right: they’re buildings so hip, fun, and now, they have their own myspace pages. (Don’t laugh, but we have one too.)
Gawker […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 8, 2007 in Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, good ideas, government, history, hope, landlords, new york, news, nyc, ohio, real estate, spread, stories, usa, videos of bed bugs | 17 Comments
Today, Cincinnati’s WKRC (local12.com) tells more local bed bug stories in an article and video.
“Bed bugs,” said Diann Waters, bed bugs in home. “All over my baby.”
Diann Waters may tell her son, “don’t let the bed bugs bite” before he goes to sleep, but it looks like they did anyways.
“He done scratched them and stuff. […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 7, 2007 in Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, cincinnati, curbside, dumpster diving, flea market, furniture, good ideas, government, health, history, hotels, housing laws, mattresses, motels, new york, nyc, ohio, prevention, public education, public health, secondhand, spread, stories, tenants, usa, used furniture | 3 Comments
We’ve been following the bed bug situation in Cincinnati for a while.
Yesterday, Joe Wessels of the Cincinnati Post reported that city officials were forming a commission to fight the problem:
The Bedbug Remediation Commission, a five-member panel of local health, social service and elected leaders, is in the process of forming and will try […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 18, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, new jersey, news, stories, students, travel, unpacking | 2 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on May 30, 2007 in bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, stories | 35 Comments
That’s the title of this article, written by someone who had bed bugs.
She speculates that she may well have gotten them from eBay. Or from a roommate who is completely unaffected by the bugs, but who likes to travel. (Maybe he brought them home, but, unallergic, never noticed them).
She […]
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