BROOKSVILLE — In a last-minute budget decision two years ago, the Brooksville City Council voted 5-0 to stop putting fluoride into the city’s water supply. The vote came without debate and with no publicity. Now, county health officials say they want to appeal to the city to reverse its call and bring back the mineral […]
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Fluoride doubts plague Holmen board members
An attempt by three Holmen Village Board members to coax discussion of another fluoride referendum was unsuccessful, but they did get the board to change the kind of fluoride to be used in the village’s public water. Board members Tony Horvath and Dawn Kulcinski requested the special board meeting Jan. 17 to discuss fluoridation issues. […]
Energy’s Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium
This story appears in the February 11, 2013 issue of Forbes. No tour of Uranium Energy Corp.’s processing plant in Hobson, Tex. is complete until CEO Amir Adnani pries the top off a big black steel drum and invites you to peer inside. There, filled nearly to the brim, is an orange-yellow powder that UEC […]
Portland: Job Announcements for Pro-Fluoridation Group
Note from FAN The jobs described below are designed to get the May 2013 fluoridation referendum passed. Clean Water Portland, without the big money of the fluoridationists, desperately needs residents and volunteers to work for the public interest to block this referendum. The Everyone Deserves Healthy Teeth Coalition supports water fluoridation for the city of […]
Hawaii: State proposal for mandatory fluoridation
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Twenty-Seventh Legislature 2013 State of Hawaii H.B. No. 270 A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FLUORIDATION BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII: SECTION 1. Chapter 340E, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows: […]
Fluoridation is nothing to Celebrate
Sixty-eight years ago while experimental trials were still underway, public water supplies were dosed with fluoride chemicals promising to safely reduce tooth decay, put dentists out of business and save millions of dollars on dental care. Current science tells us none of that came to pass; but fluoridation is still celebrated as if it did, […]
Yorktown Votes To Keep Fluoride In Drinking Water
YORKTOWN, N.Y. — Fluoride will remain in Yorktown’s drinking water, the town board decided Tuesday night. After nearly two hours of testimonials from local dentists and residents, the Yorktown Town Board voted 3 to 1 to make the necessary repairs at its facilities and continue the practice of fluoridating its water. About a dozen dentists, […]
Yorktown Board Holds Flouride Hearing Tuesday Night
YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Yorktown’s Town Board will hold an informational hearing Tuesday night to consider discontinuing the practice of adding fluoride to the drinking water supply. The topic has sparked passionate responses from many Yorktown residents and garnered attention from anti-fluoride organizations throughout the nation. In an informal poll posted on The Yorktown Daily Voice, 38 […]
Tarpon Springs. Fluoride: A Further Response to an Answered Question
n April of 2012 the Tarpon Springs City Commission voted to fluoridate the water supply. The measure has already been voted on, and with a unanimous vote, little can be done about it. Last week at our first candidates forum I was asked my opinion on the matter. I spoke truthfully and expressed my disagreement […]
Westmoreland customers getting fluoride out of their water
With a few twists of his wrist, Charles Gallo of Ligonier Township says he can protect himself from a harmful substance in his drinking water. He recently attached a reverse-osmosis purification device to his kitchen tap to rid his water of fluoride. He and about 1,500 Ligonier Valley customers of the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland […]