BOYNE CITY — A group in Boyne City that wants fluoride back in the city’s water supply has started to gather signatures to get the issue on the November ballot. Members of the Citizens United for Dental Health gathered signatures at their open house in the Boyne City District Library Community Room. In May, Boyne […]
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Rockport: Fluoride on the tonight’s agenda
ROCKPORT — A total of 14 potential articles are listed on the town’s fall Town Meeting warrant, and the Board of Selectmen is set to sort them out during a meeting tonight. … As for the fluoride-related article, members of the Cape Ann Fluoride Action Network hope to have the substance removed from town water […]
Election 2014: Candidate Q&A — Snohomish County Executive
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of questions and answers with candidates who will appear on the Aug. 5 primary election ballot. James Robert Deal PO Box 2276 Lynnwood, WA 98036 425-771?1110 james@jamesdeal.com Prefers: Democratic Party YouTube Video: http://jamesrobertdeal.org/videos/ The candidate did not respond with direct answers to the questionnaire. Instead he submitted […]
NMSU Sophomore designs water filter that reduces fluoride & arsenic for Palomas residents
New Mexico State University chemical engineering sophomore Joshua Gomez designed and developed water filters that will be installed in houses and schools in Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua, Mexico. Puerto Palomas is just south of Columbus, New Mexico. Water supplies in both Palomas and Columbus are drawn from the same arsenic- and fluoride-contaminated aquifer. While Columbus has […]
Clean Water Sheridan hires legal counsel to stop fluoridation
Clean Water Sheridan has hired an attorney and announced it will file for a declaratory judgment and mandatory injunction against the city of Sheridan in order to halt the addition of fluoride to Sheridan’s water supply. The group, which became an official nonprofit association Wednesday, is contending that a vote in the general election of […]
Referendum on fluoride in drinking water rejected by Arundel selectmen
Arundel will not be one of the towns supporting a question on the November ballot asking voters whether they support removing fluoride from the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water District water supply. The KKWWD provides water to areas in Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells, Ogunquit, Saco, Biddeford and Arundel. Norm Labbe, superintendent of the Water District, recently […]
Healdsburg asks ‘Save Our Smiles’ to write pro-fluoridation ballot argument
Healdsburg Mayor Jim Wood is a dentist who believes in the effectiveness of fluoridated water in combating tooth decay. But he won’t be writing the argument against a November ballot measure to remove fluoride from the city’s water. Wood on Monday night convinced his fellow council members to have a group of health professionals instead […]
Fight against fluoride goes forward in Salina
The fight against fluoride in public water has taken a step forward in Salina. Salina Cares, a grassroots organization comprised of concerned citizens of Salina, turned in their petition this morning to the Salina city clerk. The group wants the city of Salina remove the chemical fluoride from the public water supply due to health […]
Dover: Fluoride debate resurfaces; referendum suggested
DOVER — Added in an effort to battle villains such as “The Cavity Creeps” from making holes in teeth, fluoride has been part of the city’s water since sometime in the 1980s. Questions are now arising over potential health consequences related to the additive and whether it should continue to be distributed citywide. “There are […]
Missing teeth and tooth decay more common among Hispanics, says study of Latino oral health
Untreated tooth decay is nearly twice as common among Hispanic primary school children as non-Hispanic whites. Also, only 19 percent of working-age Hispanic adults in America have all of their teeth, compared to 35 percent of whites, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). “The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos,” an epidemiologic […]