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• Portland. Debating fluoride: Can it hurt you?

  Right now, Portland is the largest non-fluoridated metro area in the country and voters will be deciding whether to allow the city to start adding fluoride to their water. Ballots go out on May 3 and the issue has families lining up on both sides. Leah Johnson is the mother of two sons, Gabe, age […]

• Portland: Editorial by The Oregonian for fluoridation

  Fluoride will help grow healthier teeth in Portland: Editorial endorsement It seems that Clean Water Portland, which opposes fluoridation, has been doing some campaign advertising masquerading as a poll. One of the questions, as reported last week by The Oregonian’s Ryan Kost, is the following nugget of nasty: “Did you know the fluoridation chemical the […]

• Portland: Bull Run drinking water would get fluoridated at Gresham treatment plant if voters approve it

  While debates flame around whether or not to fluoridate drinking water, the Portland Water Bureau’s Lusted Hill treatment facility in Gresham hums along, shaded by Douglas fir and alder. This is where fluoridation will happen if voters approve it May 21. Knowing how and why other chemicals are added at the Lusted Hill plant helps […]

• Portland: Fluoride Measure Makes For A Plump Voters’ Guide

  Arguments for and against Portland’s fluoridation measure have set a new record in the Multnomah County voters’ guide. Elections Director Tim  Scott says voters may notice their guide feels thicker than usual. He says it’s because of Measure 26-151. “For that one measure, there were 22 arguments in favor, and 41 arguments against, for a […]

• Pediatrician Yolanda Whyte, National Expert on African Americans and Fluoride, Speaks in Portland

  Clean Water Portland hosts Atlanta pediatrician Dr. Yolanda Whyte, current member of the National Medical Association’s Environmental Health Task Force, speaking on the impact of fluoride on children’s health. The events are Tuesday, Feb. 12 at Portland State University, Room 236 in the Smith Memorial Student Union, 7 p.m.; and Wednesday, Feb. 13, at Emmanuel […]

• Portland fluoride vote: Contentious issue sparks a civil war among progressives

  Heather Leek and Rebecca Bauer both voted for President Barack Obama, champion school funding measures and support the right of gays and lesbians to marry. But over cocktails one recent evening, the longtime Portland friends found themselves sparring over fluoridating Portland’s water. “I didn’t see that coming,” said Leek, a supporter of fluoridation and president […]

• Portland. Fluoride debate: Study looked at fluoride vs. non-fluoride in Portland area

  In lieu of the contentious fluoridation vote in Portland this month, the KATU Problem Solvers continue to ask the question: is fluoridation working right now?  To help answer that question, I dug up a little-known study that evaluates this question right here in the Portland metro area. Five years ago, Dr. Gerardo Maupomé of Indiana […]

• Portland: To fluoride or not to fluoride

  Facing yet another vote that will determine the quality of Portland’s drinking water, I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom and oppression. I remember being at a UN Peace Day event where one woman told a gut wrenching story of religious oppression in which missionaries used physical torture to force her grandparents (then living with […]

• Portland. Debating fluoride: The environmental impact

  PORTLAND, Ore. – Portlanders will vote next month on whether to add fluoride to their water system.  But will it damage the environment, specifically our rivers and fish? Angler Paul Johnston – known by his friends as Crawdad Paul – has been fishing salmon for 75 years.  He was pulling his boat in at Cathedral […]

• Portland. Anti-Fluoride March draws big crowd at Last Thursday

  Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland may have more cash in the war chest, but the anti-fluoride folks are trying to put more boots on the ground. Advocates for Clean Water Portland, the “no” vote in the measure to fluoridate the city’s water supply, held a raucous march down Northeast Alberta Street during Last Thursday. Revelers walked, […]