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A brief history of America’s fluoride wars
The fluoridation war is alive in Portland, Ore. The city is one of the few major American cities that does not fluoridate its water supply. It is now in the middle of a heated battle about whether to change that. While the Portland City Council voted last fall to reverse policy and begin fluoridating the […]
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Portland: With ballots being counted tonight, more money flows into pro-fluoride campaign
The long-running reality show known as Measure 26-151, which would require the fluoridation of Portland’s water supply, draws to a close today. Ballots are due at Multnomah County elections or official ballot drop spots by 8 pm this evening. Filings today show that the Northwest Health Foundation contributed another $30,000 to the pro-fluoride campaign, Healthy […]
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Portland: New emails reveal direct involvement by state agency in pro-fluoride campaign
Clean Water Portland Calls for Investigation of Improper Collaboration PORTLAND, May 20 – Newly uncovered emails from the Oregon Health Authority show direct collaboration between key OHA staff and Healthy Kids Healthy Portland to shape strategy and messages for the campaign to add fluoridation chemicals to Portland’s tap water. The emails, obtained by Clean Water […]
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Portland Fluoridation Vote Reignites Debate
Voters in Portland, Ore., will decide tomorrow (May 21) whether the city will begin fluoridating its water. For weeks, residents have been contentiously debating water fluoridation, the addition of fluoride to public water supplies for the purpose of reducing cavities and tooth decay. Portland is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States […]
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Portland: Few voters have returned ballots so far
With one day to go before the May 21 special election, only around 22 percent of Multnomah County voters have returned their ballots. That’s well above the 11 percent that had voted at this point in the May 19, 2009, Special Election. Ultimately, only about 15 percent of county voters took part in that election. […]
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Portland: Did state employees help pro-fluoride advocates on state time?
PORTLAND, Ore. – The leading group opposed to fluoridating Portland’s water plans to call for an official investigation by the secretary of state into the state agency that strongly supports community fluoridation. Clean Water Portland filed a public records request and obtained copies of Oregon Health Authority emails related to fluoridation from as far back […]
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Fluoridated water? Not all Portlanders will drink to that
PORTLAND, Ore. — Proponents of fluoridating Portland’s water supply had no trouble getting the local Urban League on board. Here in the biggest city in the country that still doesn’t treat its water to prevent tooth decay, studies show that low-income children and kids of color have been hit hardest by untreated cavities. “Do we […]
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Portland: Health official felt pressure from pro-fluoride group about dental data, email says
PORTLAND, Ore. – Days before Portland voters decide whether to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water, newly released internal emails have an anti-fluoride group calling for a state investigation. Clean Water Portland suggests that the Oregon Health Authority sat on data because it showed a decrease in tooth decay without fluoride in Portland’s drinking […]
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Tooth and Nail: Fluoride Fight Cracks Portland’s Left
PORTLAND, Ore.—In the 1950s, after health authorities began fluoridating U.S. water supplies, they faced opposition from groups like the John Birch Society, which called it “an unconstitutional mass medication of the public.” Sixty years later, the fight over fluoridation has erupted in Portland, where the battle has drawn in the city’s craft-beer brewers, organic-food purveyors […]
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Portland: Oregon official felt pressure from pro-fluoride Upstream Public Health about dental study
A state official managing a new survey of kids’ oral health met with the architects of Portland’s pro-fluoride campaign in January and later complained that she felt pressure from Upstream Public Health about how to present the findings. Those details emerged from state emails referencing the 2012 Smile Survey, a now-politicized report released April 24 […]
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