For nearly 30 years, not a single Republican incumbent on the Pinellas County Commission has lost a general election. Voters ended that legacy Tuesday, ousting two commissioners among the board’s more conservative voices. In the end, the races did not turn out to be the nail-biters that some had predicted. Republican Commissioner Neil Brickfield lost […]
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Portland: Anti-fluoride group to launch second campaign
Anti-fluoride forces will soon start a second signature-gathering campaign, for an initiative that would amend the Portland City Charter to ban fluoridation. Multnomah Circuit Court Judge Karin Immergut cleared the way for signature-gathering Tuesday when she approved the ballot language for the initiative, said Kim Kaminski, director of Clean Water Portland. The group earlier submitted […]
Pinellas. Editorial: The faces and facts of fluoride
Pinellas County voters can reaffirm the county’s moderate sensibilities Tuesday and repair its reputation as an enlightened community that embraces science, high-tech jobs and education. They can remove two county commissioners who voted to stop adding fluoride to the drinking water and replace them with two new faces who pledge to overturn that foolish decision. […]
Fluoride gets political in Ormond Beach
ORMOND BEACH — A divisive cavity-fighting mineral added in the water supply has seeped into the city’s political air. A campaign flier being circulated by Alan Burton, who is running against Zone 1 Commissioner James Stowers, states the challenger will get fluoride out of the water if elected. “Do you want fluoride out of your […]
This Boulder controversy had some teeth
The U.S. Center for Disease Control cites fluoridation of drinking water among the 10 great public health achievements of the 20th century. It took three elections to get fluoridation approved in Boulder. At one point there were so many letters to the editor, both for and against, that the Daily Camera called for a moratorium. […]
Wichita: 3 issues arise as fluoride vote nears
As Wichita moves toward a vote Tuesday on whether to fluoridate its drinking water, three issues continue to arise in the public debate: whether commercial-grade fluoride is different than naturally occurring fluoride, whether the fluoride to be added to the water is pharmaceutical grade and whether the warning labels on toothpaste should be read as […]
Pinellas. Editorial: Voters should see through commissioners’ misdirection play
Hard as they try to change the focus of their campaigns by creating nonexistent issues, Pinellas County Commissioners Neil Brickfield and Nancy Bostock can’t change their votes to remove fluoride from the county’s drinking water. Brickfield has mischaracterized his opponent, Janet Long, as being a tax-and-spend Democrat as a Seminole City Council member. Bostock has […]
Mid-2013 restart for Metropolis
The Metropolis uranium conversion plant will resume production in June 2013 when post-Fukushima safety upgrades should be completed at the facility, plant operator Honeywell announced. The plant has been offline since May. In common with all US nuclear facilities, the Metropolis plant has been subjected to a post-Fukushima safety review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission […]
Train Derailment: Crews May Address Hydrogen Fluoride Cars Saturday
Update 9:45 p.m. Crews may attempt to stabilize and level two cars containing the dangerous gas hydrogen fluoride on Saturday afternoon — work that would require another shelter-in-place warning for a five-mile radius of the train derailment site near Dixie Highway and Katherine Station Road, said Doug Hamilton, executive director of Louisville-Jefferson County EMA/MetroSafe. On […]
Fluoride: Wichita’s Big Question
Wichita voters will consider adding fluoride to the city water supply when they go to the polls on Nov. 6, and both sides have waged heavy campaigns over the hotly contested issue. Wichita’s history with the fluoride debate runs long and deep. Fluoride was first considered, but never carried out in 1950. It was rejected […]