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Watsonville fluoride vote is too close to call
Measure S, which would ban the addition of fluoride to the city’s water supply, went down to the wire Tuesday night, with the race too close to call. Absentee and provisional ballots will decide the race. Though the initiative does not specifically mention fluoride, the group Watsonville Citizens for Safe Drinking Water, which sponsored the […]
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Redding Voters Reject Fluoride
Redding soundly rejected water fluoridation Tuesday when 12,177, or 56.3 percent, of the voters approved Measure A. Fluoride proponents hoping to defeat the measure earned 9,437 votes, or 43.7 percent of the vote. But it was unclear late Tuesday whether Measure A’s passage will bottle up the city’s proposed water fluoridation program. A state law […]
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Activists hope to bar Redding Fluoridation
In the latest in a series of emotionally charged battles throughout California over water fluoridation, voters in Redding will decide Tuesday whether to prohibit the addition of the chemical compound to their water system. On one side of the argument is the medical and dental establishment in this city of 85,000, including its two major […]
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Saying it like it is in Watsonville
Back in Watsonville, we have two hot issues: fluoridation and a florid council race. This is the second chance for Watsonville to reject fluoridation with Measure S, after tossing it years ago by a 70% margin. We’ve been called ignorant for resisting mass medication. If so, we join a long list of fools worldwide, including […]
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Redding voters face huge maze of facts
In the debate around water fluoridation, partisans use science the way gladiators wield broadswords. Fluoridation supporters can mobilize a mountain of studies dating from the 1940s calling water fluoridation the safest, surest and least-expensive way to fight tooth decay. Fluoride foes challenge those studies. Most are outdated, they say. And they leave too many questions […]
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Fluoride: Healthy or hazardous?
Redding voters Nov. 5 will decide Measure A, a ballot initiative having something to do with the city’s water supply. That’s about the only hard fact surrounding the measure. Everything else depends on whether you believe water fluoridation is an equal-opportunity hedge against tooth decay or a conspiracy to turn humans into little industrial waste […]
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Fluoridation details debated in Redding
Fluoridation would hike lead and arsenic in Redding’s water — but hardly enough to violate strict state health and safety standards. If the city went ahead with fluoridation, grants would pay for the equipment — but not the cost to run and replace it over the coming decade. And if Redding ignores a state law […]
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Citizens of Santa Maria file Intent to Circulate Safe Drinking Water Initiative
On Tuesday, August 13, 2002 at 12:30, at the entrance to city hall with more than 30 supporters in attendance, three members of Santa Maria Valley Citizens for Safe Drinking Water held a press conference to announce their filing of a “Notice of Intent to Circulate” a petition to place the Santa Maria Safe Drinking […]
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State Health Department trying to derail Watsonville’s fluoridation vote
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Voters won’t get to decide this fall whether to fluoridate the city’s drinking water supply, according to state Department of Health Services officials. An initiative on the fall ballot asks voters if they want the chemical added to the water supply. But state statutes require a municipality to fluoridate its water […]
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Watsonville water fluoridation controversy to be put to public vote
There may be a fluoride measure on the city ballot this fall, but the word “fluoride” will be as noticeably absent from the measure as a missing front tooth. This week, the City Council begrudgingly agreed to put a measure on the November ballot that, if approved by voters, would prohibit the city from adding […]
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