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Household Pests

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Guardian's Unwilling Receptionist Now a Bellhop

    Smoking room? You want a smoking room? ​Yesterday we brought you the strange tale of Jimmy Sosa, a mental health counselor who, through a twist of fate, has been fielding calls meant for the San Francisco Bay Guardian for more than a decade. Because his cellphone is just one digit off from the new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Guardian's Crazy Phone Calls Fielded By Mental Health Professional

    Trees on fire? Naked pedestrians?​Jimmy Sosa, a mental health counselor for San Mateo County, has unwittingly found himself thrust into a second career for which he is all too qualified -- fielding the oft-unhinged calls to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Sosa's cell phone number is only one digit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Bedbugs: What San Francisco Can Learn From New York City

    What to do, what to do? ​San Francisco has spent a great deal of time trying to figure how best to resolve the growing bedbug problem -- particularly in SROs. But here is an idea. How about the Public Health Department take a look at how New York City is dealing with bedbugs. NYC's Health and Ment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    S.F. Bedbugs: So Many Cases, So Few Inspectors

    cohabitation ​Like Supervisor Jane Kim, we want to know why there are only two health inspectors dedicated to dealing with the city's 560 SROs, home to most of the bedbug cases. To put that into context: that's one inspector for every 10,000 SRO units.But more than that, we want to know why the De ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Dennis Herrera Gets Injunction Against Crime-Ridden Bridge Motel

    No bed bugs allowed anymore​The famously toxic Bridge Motel,  a zit upon the otherwise clear visage of the Marina District, has been Oxycuted. After years of inaction, City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit in October 2009, claiming the motel's ongoing neglect had blossomed into serious ... More >>

  • News

    November 3, 2010

    Suckers! The media want us to think there's a bedbug invasion.

    No bed bugs allowed anymore​The famously toxic Bridge Motel,  a zit upon the otherwise clear visage of the Marina District, has been Oxycuted. After years of inaction, City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit in October 2009, claiming the motel's ongoing neglect had blossomed into serious ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    S.F. Bedbug Website Spawns Bogus Trend Stories Nationwide

    Louis De Vos, Université Libre de BruxellesNow you see me...​The website Bedbugregistry.com, run by San Franciscan Maciej Ceglowski, takes pains to note that its anonymous reports of insect sitings should not be taken as hard evidence of a plague. But that hasn't stopped newspaper and television ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    City Attorney Seeks Injunction Against the Marina's Crime-Ridden Bridge Motel

    ​ As detailed in our recent cover story, "Motel Hell," the Bridge Motel in the Marina had been a dilapidated, stinking monument to neglect for more than a decade. The down-and-out and oftentimes disabled folks who live in the residential motel have been subjected to re ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2009

    Motel Hell

    It took years for the city to move against an SRO that was full of pests. So one resident took her case to court.

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2007

    Insect Book Looks Under Your Covers: Abarbanel and Swimmer's 'Field Guide' Says Lice Prefers Whites

    It took years for the city to move against an SRO that was full of pests. So one resident took her case to court.

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2007

    Proof That Hipsters Will Eat Anything

    It took years for the city to move against an SRO that was full of pests. So one resident took her case to court.

  • News

    January 10, 2007

    (Don't) Bite Me

    It took years for the city to move against an SRO that was full of pests. So one resident took her case to court.

  • Film

    August 20, 1997

    Open Your Mouth and Say "AH"

    It took years for the city to move against an SRO that was full of pests. So one resident took her case to court.

  • Calendar

    February 19, 1997

    Night+Day

    It took years for the city to move against an SRO that was full of pests. So one resident took her case to court.

  • Calendar

    November 6, 1996

    Slap Shots

    It took years for the city to move against an SRO that was full of pests. So one resident took her case to court.

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