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Fluoride Foes Get Validation
Over the last six years, Lynne Campbell has become accustomed to being called a liar and a kook. That’s how long it’s been since she left her advertising job to fight fluoride full time, trying to keep the cavity-fighting chemical out of Portlanders’ drinking water. But while fluoridation proponents have long maintained that Campbell and […]
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Hood River council yanks fluoride
The City of Hood River has dropped a ballot measure that asked voters to weigh in on the issue of water fluoridation. On Monday, the council withdrew the proposal that was headed to 3,452 registered city voters in the Nov. 1 general election. “The cost of the election and an almost certain legal challenge could […]
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Revisiting fluoride
It’s a good thing that the Legislature failed to act on House Bill 2025, which would require cities with 10,000 or more people to fluoridate their water supplies. The House had approved this bill. Among the no votes was that of Rep. Jeff Kropf, the Republican representing east Linn County. He wisely believes that people […]
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Fluoride bill left decaying in Salem
A bill to promote the fluoridation of city water supplies has apparently died in the Oregon Legislature just as new questions are being raised about the practice. House Bill 2025 would have required cities with 10,000 people or more to add fluoride to their water systems in order to prevent tooth decay. The House passed […]
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BONING UP ON FLUORIDE
In Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1964 movie, Dr. Strangelove, the deranged General Jack D. Ripper thinks he knows a secret communist plot to destroy Americans from within. “A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice,” he says ominously. He’s referring to water fluoridation, “the […]
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Fluoride again: Legislature had better take another look
One of the nation’s oldest public policy debates is again bubbling to the surface in Oregon — whether it’s wise or necessary to add fluoride to more public drinking water. HB 2742, introduced by state Rep. Bob Jenson, R-Pendleton, would require cities with populations of 10,000 to fluoridate their water supply if they can afford […]
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House takes second try to pass bill for fluoride
SALEM — Pressure is building on the Oregon Legislature to require cities to add fluoride to their drinking water. Such a bill passed the House in March but appears bottled up in a Senate committee. So proponents have inserted identical language in another House bill, giving them a second shot at passage through a different, […]
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Hood River voters pass bill that prohibits fluoridation
Hood River’s charter is seven pages long. It includes 10 chapters and 43 sections. Those 43 sections establish the most fundamental pillars of Hood River, such as its name, who in city government can fire whom and how many councilors comprise a city council. It is the city’s constitution, the citizens’ most powerful municipal document […]
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Hood River Voters Pass Measure to Keep Contaminated Fluoride from Drinking Water
Hood River, OR – In a sharp rebuke to efforts to fluoridate Hood River’s drinking water, city voters in Hood River have voted to approve a drinking water protection measure that fluoridation supporters claim would prevent fluoridation. The Measure’s proponents say that the State Legislature should pay attention to the message voters were sending and […]
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Why is Fluoridation Failing?
America is in “dental crisis” mode, according to reports from some of the nation’s largest cities, including Cincinnati, Detroit, Manhattan, Pittsburgh, and Boston. How could tooth decay be such a big problem when these cities have been fluoridating their drinking water for decades? On the other hand, why do children have lower-than-average cavity rates here […]
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