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Portland. Fluoride poll: Measure faces uphill battle
An exclusive KATU News poll offers insight into how Portland residents plan to vote in the contentious issue of fluoridating water. Of the 800 Portlanders polled by Survey USA – including nearly 600 likely voters — 48 percent say they plan to vote against fluoride, while 39 percent say they favor fluoride. Fourteen percent were […]
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Portland: Man caught stealing anti-fluoride signs outside campaign HQ
It appears some people on both sides of the Portland fluoride debate are willing to vandalize their opponent’s signs to get their point across. On Wednesday, we showed you how an anti-fluoride supporter kicked over one pro-fluoride sign, and in another case a pro-fluoride sign was set on fire. Now we’re also seeing how anti-fluoride […]
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Portland: Fluoride campaigns approach $1 million
Portland’s raging fluoride debate isn’t just igniting conversations at dinner tables. It’s burning through money, too. Fluoride proponents and opponents are approaching the $1 million fundraising mark as the May 21 inches closer, according to state filings reviewed Friday. In total, both sides reported contributions of $922,413 — with more than two out of every […]
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Portland: Fluoridation carries too many risks
What do more than 200 physicians and Portland medical professionals, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Headquarters Scientists Union and the local leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Sierra Club have in common? We and many other Portland organizations oppose adding risky fluoridation chemicals to our clean, safe drinking water. […]
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Portland. The Fluoride Debate: A Closer Look At The Science
Editor’s Note: Thursday, OPB aired the following story about fluoride science. The story misstated where the American Cancer Society stands on water fluoridation. According to a Cancer Society spokesperson, the group has taken no position on water fluoridation. OPB regrets the error. The story also contained information about a study that summarized the findings of 27 […]
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Portland. Sources Say: This will make your teeth grind
The fluoride fight may not end on election day. If Ballot Measure 26-151 passes on May 21, attorney James Deal says he will file a lawsuit to prevent it from taking effect. Deal practices law in Lynnwood, Wash. He is the president of Fluoride Class Action, an advocacy group opposed to fluoridation. According to Deal, […]
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Portland: Fluoride Vote Gets Its Own Hitler Video
And so, in accordance with Godwin’s Law, it has come to this. The furor over Measure 26-151 has resulted in a YouTube parody video in which Adolf Hitler rails against the destruction of his plan to fluoridate Portland’s water. “How could you let them vote?” the German dictator roars, via subtitles. “You said City Council […]
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Portland: You Can’t Handle the Tooth
Why the far right and left have come together to defeat flouride [sic]. It’s an April evening at Dishman Community Center in Northeast Portland, and people are pissed. The occasion is a public debate between Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, the local campaign that’s backing the Portland ballot measure to fluoridate our water, and its fluoride-hating […]
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Portland: Health Groups Pour More Money into Fluoridation
Two of the biggest supporters of Measure 26-151, which calls for the fluoridation of Portland’s water supply have kicked in more cash to the Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland campaign. State filings for today show that the Northwest Health Foundation, the biggest contributor to the campaign, has given another $20,000, bringing its total to $235,000. The […]
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Dr. Joseph Mercola Gives $15,000 to Anti-Fluoride Campaign
The campaign against Measure 26-151, which would fluoridate Portland’s water, has received one of its largest single donations—from an Illinois-based alternative physician who makes unusual medical claims. Dr. Joseph Mercola donated $15,000 in cash to Clean Water Portland on April 28, and the campaign reported the contribution over the weekend. That’s the third-largest single donation […]
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