West Nile is here to stay and you might as well get used to it.
It will be a while before it is no longer a sensation and people once again
learn to empty out tin cans and old tires and to keep drainage basins and
ponds healthy and populated with fish.  Right now it is an opportunity for
the politicians to make an appearance with helicopters and spray rigs as they
vie for their pictures on the six O'clock news. Little do they know that they
are poisoning the insects which eat mosquitos along with the mosquito.
  New York City is a dirty lazy place that has fought recycling, proper
sewage treatment and rat control as too expensive to do and mosquito control
will be no different.
   Education will be the solution and it has to begin in our own back yards.
Empty out the old buckets and tires in your yard and encourage your neighbors
to do the same.