To the Editor: Bravo to the Valley News for its wise and commonsensical editorial on Dec. 2, “Bradford Regresses.” As a pediatrician, I see children every week from Bradford who will be hurt by the removal of fluoride from the water. We have an oral health crisis here, and both kids and seniors are counting […]
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Bradford, Vt., Commission Reaffirms Decision to End Water Fluoridation
Bradford — Water and Sewer Commission members have voted to reaffirm their May decision to remove fluoride from the town’s water supply. Commissioners initially voted in May to end fluoridation, a decision that flew under the radar for months before sparking a backlash from dentists and residents. On Tuesday, the commission took another vote, and […]
City of Terrytown considers water options
Terrytown officials voted to put the process of adding fluoride to the city’s public water supply on hold. Under the advisement of City Engineer Jeff Wolfe, members of the Terrytown City Council agreed to wait for the results of an engineering report that would factor in the cost of fluoridation while still making necessary upgrades […]
Transcript of live Q&A on fluoride with Onondaga County health commissioner Cynthia Morrow
Dr. Cynthia Morrow, commissioner of health for Onondaga County, answered questions about community water fluoridation and the safety of fluoride during a live Q&A session on syracuse.com today. Read the full transcript of the Q&A below. Morrow has been the health commissioner since 2005. She has an undergraduate degree in psychobiology from Swarthmore College, master’s […]
DOE Issues Request for Quotations for Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Technical Services
Cincinnati – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for engineering and operations technical services to support the Portsmouth Paducah Project Office and the oversight of operations of the Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) Conversion Project located in Paducah KY, and Portsmouth OH. The RFQ is for a Time-and-Materials Task […]
Dozens of personal injury lawsuits filed against DuPont
OHIO VALLEY — More than two dozen personal injury lawsuits have been filed by Mid-Ohio Valley residents against DuPont so far in response to findings by the C8 Science Panel linking C8 exposure to several different types of human disease. All but one of the cases was filed by Charleston, West Virginia attorney Kathy Brown […]
Upstate NY: Get your fluoride questions ready
Experts on both sides of the water fluoridation debate will answer questions in separate live chats online at Syracuse.com. The village of Pulaski in Oswego County recently decided to stop fluoridating its water. Dr. Cynthia Morrow, commissioner of health for Onondaga County, will be taking syracuse.com readers’ questions Thursday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Paul […]
Pulaski fluoride story was biased, says head of anti-fluoride group
Editor’s note: This is an unedited letter to reporter Marnie Eisenstadt about the story she wrote Sunday on Pulaski’s decision to stop fluoridating its water. Connett gave permission for it to be published. Marnie, your pro-fluoridation connections are showing. Back in 2005 you wrote a front-page article for the Syracuse Post-Standard (M. Eisenstadt, “How Fluoride […]
Column. Bradford: Keep the Ban on Fluoridation
When getting my Ph.D. at Dartmouth, I relied on the Valley News for well-informed opinion; thus, I was deeply shocked to read its Dec. 2 editorial on water fluoridation. Having researched this issue for 16 years, first as a professor of environmental chemistry and then as director of the Fluoride Action Network, I believe this […]
Editorial. Reckless ‘Caution’: Decision to stop fluoridation not evidence-based
Water fluoridation is just counterintuitive enough to keep controversy alive — even though the process has worked for 65 years to reduce child and adult tooth decay. First, there’s reflexive reluctance to add a chemical to the public water supply — without the informed consent of constituents. Then there’s the fact that concentrated fluoride is […]