VALPARAISO | The city’s Utilities Board is expected to vote in two weeks on a recommendation to the council on whether Valparaiso should continue to add fluoride to the city water supply. The board officially received the report of its fluoride commission at Tuesday’s meeting. The commission voted 5 to 2 earlier this month in […]
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Johnny Johnson loses primary election for Pinellas County Commission
Excerpt: Long-time Pinellas County Commissioner John Morroni was re-elected for another four-year term Tuesday while another incumbent, Norm Roche, suffered defeat on a night that saw commission candidates backing the Greenlight Pinellas mass transit plan do well at the polls [Morroni opposed fluoridation]. Roche lost to retired firefighter and Republican State Representative Ed Hooper … […]
City of Waynesville to remove fluoride from water
Waynesville City Council voted unanimously Thursday to remove the placement of fluoride from its water system. The vote repeals a 1987 ordinance that introduced the placement of fluoride into the water system. Waynesville Mayor pro Tem Mike France led the meeting while Mayor Luge Hardman was absent. He said that the decision was made after […]
Bethel: Public hearing on fluoride in drinking water set for Aug. 25
A public hearing to discuss whether or not the town should remove fluoride from the town’s drinking water is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 25, during the regularly scheduled selectmen’s meeting. Although the town has added fluoride to the water supply since 1970, Bethel business owner Sarah Lane recently brought evidence of health […]
Editorial: Land abuse comes back to haunt
Now comes word that a couple of nasty chemical compounds — perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) — have contaminated drinking water supplies in two adjoining townships. And that the culprit is likely the U.S. Navy, which used firefighting foams containing the chemicals at the former Willow Grove Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base […]
Rockport selectmen hold off stand on fluoride
ROCKPORT — The town’s selectmen have decided to endorse all articles on the upcoming fall Town Meeting warrant — with one very notable exception. Article L, which deals with whether fluoride should be in the town’s drinking water, has yet to garner the selectmen’s support or a call for voters’ rejection. The choice to delay […]
Fort Smith to fluoridate drinking water
Fort Smith is using a $1.8 million grant to cover startup costs associated with adding fluoride to its water system as mandated by the state. The grant from the Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation comes three years after state legislators passed a law requiring water systems serving 5,000 or more customers to fluoridate their public […]
Is fluoride in private wells causing an IQ decline?
Excess fluoride, which may damage both brain and bone, is leaching out of granite and into Maine’s drinking water—and potentially other New England states … Like the majority of the state, many of Dedham’s denizens rely on private wells for the water they drink, bathe in and perhaps use to make infant milk formula. … […]
Beyond conflict of interest – Disclosing medical biases
Excerpts: The editors of medical and scientific journals always ask authors of papers to declare any financial conflicts of interest (COIs) related to their research. There has recently been a shift … toward asking them to disclose any potential perceived COI… Medical Conflicts of interest … I once wrote a paper for a medical law […]
Tonawanda: Clean Air targets DuPont
TOWN OF TONAWANDA — Two local organizations called on the DuPont Yerkes plant in the town to improve its environmental controls and reduce its air emissions at a press conference Tuesday. “Simply put, this is about protecting the health and well-being of Western New Yorkers,” said Liz Smith, of the Western New York Council on […]