Category: massachusetts
By nobugsonme on Jan 3, 2008 in Bed Bug Dogs, bed bug dogs and hotels, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, boston globe, detecting bed bugs, finding bed bugs, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, jury's hotel, massachusetts, mattress encasements, omni parker house, prevent bed bugs, travel | 3 Comments
The Boston Globe has a new article about bed bugs, mainly focusing on how ten or so hotels in Boston are employing a bed bug dog to do regular walkthroughs.
In the 3 1/2 years it’s been open, Jurys Boston Hotel has never found bedbugs on its premises, nor have its guests complained about being bitten. […]
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 26, 2007 in "bites", bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, cambridge, colleges, columbia, diagnosis, dorms, dr. michael alpert, entomologists, harvard, itchy, ivy league, massachusetts, mites, mosquitoes, mystery, new york, nyc, rashes, scabies, usa | 6 Comments
Ivy League gossip blog the IvyGate explained this week that the supposed scabies outbreak that forced everyone in the Pennypacker Harvard freshman dorm to be treated for scabies with a full-body pyrethrin cream application (not to mention making them all undergo the extensive laundering and calling-of-romantic-partners that condition requires), is now thought not to have […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 27, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, celebrities, massachusetts, new york, nyc, pop culture, spread, usa | 0 Comments
Margaret Cho is bringing her touring burlesque-style variety show to The Zipper Factory in New York City this week. Bed bugs came up near the end of this interview with Tony Phillips in Boston’s online journal Edge.
The context is that interviewer Tony Phillips is apologizing for not having more suggestions for Cho’s stay in […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 15, 2007 in MIT, bed bugs, bed bugs at MIT, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, boston, colleges, connecticut, dorms, how to avoid bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, massachusetts, students, students and bed bugs, treatment, usa, waterbury | 4 Comments
Bed bugs creeping their way around Waterbury, CT, the Republican-American reported on Friday that the Waterbury Health Department has gotten complaints from around the city:
The health department also received complaints of infestations of two apartments at 553 South Main St., and one apartment each in apartment buildings or multifamily homes at 42 Pine St. (the […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 4, 2007 in Quincy, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, consumer, curbside, dumpster diving, eastern nazarene college, furnishing bedbug-free homes, furniture, massachusetts, mattresses, students, students and bed bugs, usa | 4 Comments
The Patriot Ledger of Southofboston.com (2/2008: link removed; no longer working) reports that even students’ own furniture cannot be brought into dorm rooms, say Eastern Nazarene College officials, who are trying to prevent bed bug outbreaks on campus.
That means no mattresses, no sofas at the school in Quincy, Mass. The policy only applies to […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 15, 2007 in ABCDC, Allston-Brighton, SROs, VANDU, activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, british columbia, canada, downtown eastside, furnishing bedbug-free homes, good ideas, government, hotels, low-income housing, massachusetts, mattresses, multi-unit buildings, public education, treatment, treatment in hotels, usa, vancouver | 8 Comments
Vancouver’s Radio CKNW (AM980) reports on their website Saturday:
Advocacy group fights bed bug outbreak
VANCOUVER - Community advocacy group the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users VANDU is trying to fight a massive outbreak of bedbugs in that city’s Downtown Eastside by gutting infested rooms.
The group’s Anne Livingston says residents have had six weeks notice to […]
By parakeets on Jun 14, 2007 in ABCDC, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, boston, conferences, consumer, government, hotels, housing laws, information and help, landlords, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, professional advice, public education, spread, tools and weapons, travel, treatment | 17 Comments
I was able to go to the Second Greater Boston Bed Bug Conference yesterday, June 13, 2007. The sub-title was “Extermination and Legislation.” There were many people there, maybe 100 or more, from diverse areas such as government, public housing, inspection services, senior services, property managers and exterminators. They even had live […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 7, 2007 in ABCDC, Brooklyn, Queens, Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, bombs, boston, conferences, doing your own pest control, foggers, government, illinois, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, new mexico, new york, news, social services, spread, tenants, usa, workplace | 4 Comments
A news round-up for today:
This article in the Quad-Cities Online reported yesterday on bed bug infestations in a public housing complex in East Moline, Illinois. The reporter quotes one resident who has been battling bed bugs since fall.
“I work too. My tax dollars are going to support places like this (government run low-income housing). […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 16, 2007 in Queens, alberta, bed bug bites, bed bugs, bedbugs, blackpool, brazil, british columbia, california, canada, colorado, denmark, england, florida, gibraltar, harrow, hungary, iceland, illinois, iowa, ireland, kentucky, manitoba, maryland, massachusetts, meta, michigan, mississippi, nevada, new jersey, new york, north dakota, nottingham, ohio, oklahoma, ontario, oregon, pennsylvania, quebec, san francisco, sheffield, spread, texas, uk, usa, utah, virginia, washington | 7 Comments
You can click here to see a map of the last 90 or so visitors to the site. It will look different from what I describe below, because I am writing about what I saw there about 4-5 hours ago. Now it’s almost midnight in New York, and the Aussies are starting to […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 31, 2007 in activism, bed bugs, bedbugs, british columbia, canada, hotels, massachusetts, multi-unit buildings, news, social services, treatment, treatment in hotels, usa | 3 Comments
This is exciting news: a group of community activists in Vancouver are fighting for the city to pay for bed bug treatment and education, the CBC news reports today.
The article reports that,
Community activists in Vancouver are calling on the city to pay for an expanded bedbug program following an initial effort that targeted two […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 25, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, california, colleges, dorms, massachusetts, news, treatment, usa | 5 Comments
The other day we mentioned bed bugs had been found in a Shelton Hall dorm at Boston University. Now an editorial, also from BU’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, argues that the students removed from their dorm rooms should not have been told by university officials to hush up about their bed […]
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