Bed Bugs

The Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act of 2009 seriously ... that's what it's called. Where do these people get the names for their bills? There are times when I think they must have hired the Schoolhouse Rock staff for writing the names I'm just a bill / yes I'm only a bill / and I'm sittin' here on Capitol Hill ... The EPA held its first-ever bedbug summit last month. Did the attendees stay in a hotel room for the conference? The biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II

Arsenic

The continuing saga of the Philip's Neighborhood. Minnesota health officials say they could begin recruiting participants next month for the Minneapolis Children's Arsenic Study. The study will measure arsenic levels in the bodies of 100 volunteer children who live in the south Minneapolis neighborhoods near the site of an old pesticide plant.