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By nobugsonme on May 8, 2008 in Edward Brownbear, HPD bed bug seminars, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bed bugs in the subway, bedbugs, multi-unit buildings, new york, new york subway, nyc, treatment | 14 Comments
Housing and Preservation Department Educator Edward Brownbear told those in attendance at the Greenpoint HPD Bed Bug Seminar on Tuesday night that bed bugs had been found on benches at a number of different subway stations.
Miss Heather and Renee of New York vs. Bed bugs both blogged about that terrifying (but as to be expected) […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 30, 2008 in HPD bed bug seminars, NYCHPD, Pastor Ann Kansfield, bed bugs, bedbugs, city of new york, greenpoint, hpd, local government, miss heather, new york, new york vs. bed bugs, public education | 1 Comment
Miss Heather of NewYorkShitty.com knows that the war on bed bugs needs a little Bill Murray, Caddyshack-style.
She also reminds us there’s a bed bug seminar coming up in Greenpoint next Tuesday.
By nobugsonme on Apr 25, 2008 in bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, new york | 0 Comments
Every spring, Time Out New York does an issue on the apartment rental market. The 2008 issue, out this week, features a story where an interior decorator, plumber, and pest control operator go into prospective rental units and inspect them. The “exterminator” (Samuel Soto of First Rate Exterminators) is looking for roaches, rats, […]
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 9, 2008 in bed bug nation, bed bugs, bedbugs, california, chinches, hyde st., plaga, san francisco, street flyer, tenderloin | 0 Comments
By nobugsonme on Apr 7, 2008 in NYCHPD, bed bug data, bed bugs, david segal, new york, new york vs. bed bugs, newyorkvsbedbugs.org, nyc, nyc data, nycha, washington post | 3 Comments
David Segal’s article in the Washington Post was frustrating on many levels, but most of all because the actual data presented was erroneous and misleading.
Kudos are now due to Renee of NewYorkvsBedbugs.org, who was surely the party responsible for convincing the Washington Post via this campaign to correct the erroneous information used by David Segal […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 2, 2008 in avoid bed bugs, bed bug transmission, bed bugs, bedbugs, montreal, new york, pillow fight, pillows, san francisco, toronto, vancouver | 1 Comment
Pillow Fight New York City 2008
Photo uploaded to flickr.com by urbanblitz
In the age of bed bugs, it does not seem that wise for people around the world, in cities like Vancover and New York (pictured here) to have large group pillow fights.
Dave, a participant, is one who realized this after the fact. […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 29, 2008 in Debra Grogan, PAC Extermination, bed bug lawsuits, bed bugs, bedbugs, dr. robert j. novak, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, law, lawsuits, legal, milford plaza, new york, nyc | 0 Comments
Daniel Wise of the New York Law Journal reports that
In a ruling of first impression, a Manhattan judge has scratched a request for punitive damages in a bedbug case.
But the judge, Acting Supreme Court Justice Judith J. Gische, let go forward the negligence claims of two Maryland tourists for bites they sustained during a two-night […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 28, 2008 in Cincinnati Health Department, Hamilton County, bed bug task force, bed bugs, bed bugs in cincinnati, cinncinnati, kentucky, ohio, silverton | 1 Comment
Rich Jaffe reported today for Local 12 in Cincinnati that the combined city/county bed bug task force (Greater Cincinnati in Ohio, and Hamilton County, Kentucky) has released a draft report of their plan to combat bed bugs. Jaffe also reports on one Silverton, Ohio building that is infested with bed bugs, and one tenant, who moved to flee […]
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 Mar 18, 2008 in Fox, Fox NY, Fox News, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bedbugs, employees and bed bugs, new york, nyc, rumors of bed bugs, workplace | 12 Comments
Someone claimed there were bed bugs in the VIP couch at Fox News’s Manhattan studios in November of 2006. After we followed up, the source claimed she was told this by a Fox producer. That sounded plausible enough, but still, just a rumor.
Then, a year later, in November 2007, someone else claimed […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 11, 2008 in bed bug backlash, bed bugs, bed bugs and the media, bedbugs, bob garfield, david segal, dr. michael potter, hyperbolic coverage, new york, nyc, on the media, the spread of bed bugs, washington post, wnyc | 8 Comments
This time Segal speaks with Bob Garfield on WNYC.com’s “On the Media.” You can listen to it, or read a translated-by-a-machine transcript with lots of goofy typos by clicking here. I made my own corrections to the faulty transcript in the excerpts quoted below.
In this discussion, David Segal continues the argument he made […]
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