Spokane pro-fluoride group pays $2 for each signature

Spokane — Hard work and $25,000 guaranteed that Spokane residents will be able to vote on adding fluoride to their water. People for Healthy Teeth delivered 12,742 signatures to City Hall on Tuesday, 50 percent more than state law requires to place an initiative on the ballot. While the city clerk’s office will have to […]

Dentists push for mandatory fluoridation in Washington

OLYMPIA — A year after voters in Olympia rejected fluoridation of water supplies for the third time, a statewide dental group is at the Capitol, pushing for legislation to make fluoridation mandatory throughout the state. The Washington State Dental Association proposal would require public water systems with more than 1,000 hookups to fluoridate water supplies […]