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Kansas City Was A Hit

Kansas City Was A Hit

I was able to visit with a great group of enthusiastic people in a wonderful setting. Ideas were shared on all sorts of topics related to lead and healthy housing. The overarching message was that we need to be scrappy and creative, finding funding for the important...

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Lead Locators Heads To Kansas City MO

Lead Locators Heads To Kansas City MO

The 2025 National Lead and Healthy Housing Conference is being held in early August in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Westin Town Center. Lead Locators is an exhibitor, and I will be mingling with the crowd as well as attending the breakout sessions. Who's Who In The...

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EPA Cover-Up Words

EPA Cover-Up Words

EPA Cover-Up. Ohh, Breaking news? Tell me more. Did I get the scoop? I recently had a conversation with a lead inspector on the Eastern half of the country, and I heard him say a word that piqued my ears. He said that the client needed to encapsulate the chipped paint...

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Lead Dust Detection and NVG’s

Lead Dust Detection and NVG’s

I was a Flight Paramedic in Idaho for 35 years. I started as a volunteer with the South West Idaho division of the Back Country Medical Rescue Team. I carried a pager when I wasn't on shift as a paramedic on the ambulance. Then, when Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical...

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More Canaries In The Coal Mine

More Canaries In The Coal Mine

I just received another sad case study of leaded children that reportedly occurred several years ago over a several-year period. While enjoying living in a vintage national park housing complex, the employees were a young family of 2 with one on the way. The details...

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Best Lead Test In The World?

Best Lead Test In The World?

I was having coffee with my good friend, Professor Uwe Reischl, PhD and MD. The conversation meandered to some of the great inventions and leaps in technology in disease prevention and how the Lumetallix instant lead test could become one of them. He shared my...

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Recent Posts

Rental Registry Anyone

Rental Registry Anyone

There is a new mandate in many parts of the country that is being done in the name of healthy housing. Here is a list of some of them that are popping up all over. Part of it has to do with lead hazards found in homes, and that is where we come in. Other issues can be...

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Using XRF for Dust Screening

Using XRF for Dust Screening

I just read a fresh article written by a cadre of scientists in Chem Rxiv (an analytical Chemistry magazine) about using an XRF to do dust sampling screening in the field. They state, and I agree, that there has been a long-standing need to be able to do a quick lead...

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Kansas City Was A Hit

Kansas City Was A Hit

I was able to visit with a great group of enthusiastic people in a wonderful setting. Ideas were shared on all sorts of topics related to lead and healthy housing. The overarching message was that we need to be scrappy and creative, finding funding for the important...

read more
Lead Locators Heads To Kansas City MO

Lead Locators Heads To Kansas City MO

The 2025 National Lead and Healthy Housing Conference is being held in early August in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Westin Town Center. Lead Locators is an exhibitor, and I will be mingling with the crowd as well as attending the breakout sessions. Who's Who In The...

read more

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