Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a mostly cloudy day, with a high temperature of fifty-eight degrees.
It’s another week of school, and one sees that in the WSJ there’s a story about a (Big Apple) school concern — New School Fear: Bedbugs Coming Home in Backpacks. Reporter Jill Caryl Weiner writes that
The new academic year opened just as bedbugs became seemingly ubiquitous in the city, spreading to retailers, movie theaters, government buildings, hospitals — even the offices of Google and, most recently, this newspaper. School administrators, sensing a wave of parental concern, have adopted a new openness to discussing the risks of student-to-student bedbug transmission.
These new times seem more like old times than anyone would prefer.