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Joplin committee seeks to block fluoridation
A roomful of concerned citizens met last Thursday at the office of Dr. W.L. Walmsley to solidify their opposition to the Joplin council’s 7 to 1 vote in favor of adding fluoride to the city’s water supply. The Committee for Pure Water has been organized to circulate petitions calling for a referendum that would allow […]
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Escondido set to add fluoride to water supply
ESCONDIDO – The city plans to begin adding fluoride to its water supply Monday, despite a lawsuit to halt the practice. Escondido would be the first city or water district in the county to fluoridate its water under a 1996 state law that requires larger suppliers to begin the process when funds are available. City […]
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City drains fluoride vote from ballot
Tension in the municipal courtroom was palpable on Monday as the Hood River City Council debated over how to pull a fluoridation ballot measure. The result of Monday’s debate is that fluoridation question will not go before voters this November, and likely won’t be on the ballot before May 2005, based on council’s 6-1 vote […]
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Soil test demand at school blocked
LYON TOWNSHIP — Residents who live near the Continental Aluminum recycling plant are furious because the South Lyon school board has refused to allow a state toxicologist to conduct soil tests at Dolsen Elementary School. The school board this month declined a request from Christina Bush, a toxicologist with the Michigan Department of Community Health, […]
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Pro-fluoride measure fails to qualify for Spokane ballot
An off-again, on-again initiative to add fluoride to Spokane’s drinking water is definitely off again. On Monday, the Spokane City Council was told the initiative had failed to gain enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballot. As a result, the council voted unanimously to stop any further consideration of placing the measure on […]
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Proponents decline offer to defend fluoridation at Forum
MANCHESTER – Ed Groves Sr. of Hooksett left last night’s 90 minute fluoridation forum at Manchester Public Library with everything he needed to make up his mind about the issue of whether fluoride should remain in public drinking water. It was the same tube of Crest he came with. “All this scientific stuff is fine, […]
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Goffstown weighs the evidence
GOFFSTOWN – Saying there is doubt about fluoride‘s safety, a majority of speakers decried using fluoridated water from Manchester in Goffstown during a public hearing last night at Saint Anselm College’s Institute of Politics. About two dozen people turned out for the hearing. Some Manchester officials attended and fielded questions from the audience in a […]
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Fluoridation: What’s new since the 1999 vote?
ON SEPT. 14, Manchester, Bedford, Goffstown, Hooksett and Londonderry will decide whether to continue fluoridating the public’s water. Has anything new happened since the November 1999 vote, when a slim majority chose to fluoridate? Absolutely! Following, a sampling of significant developments: December 5, 1999: Dr. Hardy Limeback, head of preventive dentistry at the University of […]
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Lawsuit challenges fluoride referendum
Residents in Auburn and Derry who want their votes counted on the fluoridated water distributed by Manchester Water Works have filed a lawsuit challenging a regional referendum on the issue scheduled for the state primary election on Sept. 14. The Legislature ordered the referendum for “municipalities whose voters directly receive water from the city of […]
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City revises fluoride ballot wording
The City of Hood River has met citizen demands to include more information in the fluoridation measure slated for the Nov. 2 general election ballot. On Thursday, municipal officials forestalled court action by revising the the ballot language. The revised text discloses the names of the three potential fluoride compounds that could be added to […]
United States, Oregon