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TAMPA — A decades-old debate over whether fluoride should be added to Tampa Bay’s drinking water might be renewed. On Sept. 26, Hillsborough County Commissioner Joshua Wostal posted on the social media site X that he intends to bring a motion to end the practice of Hillsborough County adding fluoride to “our children’s water supply. […]

Hillsboro voters this fall will advise the city whether to add fluoride to the public water supply, weighing in on a mineral that’s widely used to strengthen tooth enamel but that opponents say can hurt children’s neurological development. Hillsboro pediatrician Beth Mossman spearheaded the effort to have city residents vote on the addition of fluoride. […]

This November, voters in Lebanon, Oregon will decide whether to keep adding fluoride to the city’s water supply. Lebanon has fluoridated its water since 2001. It uses the federally recommended rate of 0.7 parts-per-million, and this costs the city about $25,000 per year. Now, some community members are voicing concerns about the practice, and whether […]

In a move that revisits an old public health debate, the Hillsboro City Council has greenlit a community advisory vote on the topic of fluoridating the city’s drinking water supply. According to City records, the initiative is slated for the November 2024 ballot and seeks to adhere to the EPA’s recommended fluoridation level of 0.7 […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – For the first time since the 1950s, a proposal to put fluoride in Hillsboro’s water supply is heading to the ballot in November. The measure, as first reported by OPB, would require fluoridation at the Environmental Protection Agency’s recommended level of 0.7 milligrams per liter to reduce tooth decay and improve […]

Few issues fire up Oregonians quite like the debate over fluoride in the public water supply. Soon, Hillsboro city residents will be the latest to chime in. The City Council last month approved placing the measure on the November ballot that would advise the city’s water department whether or not residents want fluoride in their […]

To fluoridate or not? That is the question facing Hillsboro voters. For the first time in 70 years, Hillsboro is posing an advisory vote to citizens on whether or not to fluoridate Hillsboro Water’s drinking water supply. The question will be on the ballot this November — however, because it’s an advisory vote, the city […]

Voters in Sublimity were choosing to keep adding fluoride to their water. The city 15 miles east of Salem asked its residents if they wanted to continue to put fluoride in the drinking water, a practice the city has undertaken since 1955. Sublimity is one of 29 in the state that adds fluoride to its […]

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Lebanon received a prospective initiative petition that complies with constitutional requirements.  On May 4, 2022 the City Recorder received from the City Attorney the following draft ballot title for Initiative Petition #LEB2022-01. CAPTION:  Removal of Fluorosilicic Acid from Lebanon Water Supply. QUESTION: Shall the City of Lebanon […]

Brief excerpts from the April 27, 2022, agenda for the City Council Members. FOR: March 30, 2022, Letter from Dan Keteri, CEO, Samaritan Albany General Hospital.  “On behalf of Samaritan Albany General Hospital and Samaritan Health Services, I write to express our support of continuing water fluoridation in the City of Albany’s water supply… “According […]