Entries Tagged Editor's Blog

If you’ve ever complained about the news media in general not working to understand an important issue before reporting on it, you’ll...

Our friends at Metro Septic in Cartersville, Ga., made headlines this week for their positive work in letting the public know about...

When I was paging through the newspaper this morning, I was surprised and pleased to see a half-page story about the ongoing...

Jimmie Deal, a Hearne, Texas, pumper we profiled in Pumper in 2011, is a big advocate for supporting the troops and has...

Fox News reported that actress, model and former professional wrestler Stacy Keibler has moved along from George Clooney’s girlfriend to a spokeswoman...

Tim Coleman, founder of Southern Hydrovac in the Atlanta area, passed away Aug. 22 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Coleman, 55,...

When we shed some light on a Septic Socials project in Washington State in 2012, this local program seemed like the kind...

WTRF.com in Wheeling W.Va., published a series of photos of a vacuum truck rollover accident Monday near Sardis, Ohio, on the Ohio-West...

In the latest of several septic service truck crash photos posted by various media this summer, the Alaska Dispatch put this one...

The other day I was talking to a woman who runs a septic service and portable sanitation company with her husband. She...

If you talk to pumper Jay Brendel, of Brendel's Septic Tank Service, you’ll learn there’s no shortage of business in the Detroit,...

A Florida vacuum truck driver was uninjured when his service rig overturned along Interstate 75 in Land O’ Lakes, Fla., on Monday,...

I’ve had a tremendous response to my June editor’s column about so-called “flushable’’ wipes. There have been several comments on Facebook, a...

In some parts of the country, relentless rain and the residual effects of Tropical Storm Andrea this week have caused flooding that...