Fluoride proponents did themselves and their cause no service when they shunned two forums on the topic of fluoridating public water supplies last Saturday. Indeed, their willful decision to stay away was a studied insult to the voters and to the Jeffersonian idea of an informed citizenry making informed public decisions. Proponents refused to attend […]
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Supporters, foes of fluoridation gear up for public forum
Supporters and foes of a plan to fluoridate the town’s water supply to improve dental health are gearing up for a public forum next week. That discussion will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at 7 p.m. in the Brattleboro Union High School gym, according to Town Manager Jerry Remillard. “Probably there will be presentations […]
State Ecology Department hits Kaiser with $388,000 fine
SPOKANE, Wash – Kaiser Aluminum Corp. will appeal a $388,000 fine by the state Department of Ecology for alleged sloppy operation of air pollution-control equipment at its Mead smelter, officials say. Operation and maintenance problems were responsible for more than 800 pounds a day of pollutants escaping from the aluminum smelting plant northeast of Spokane, […]
Fluoridation Proponents Adhere to Their No Debate Policy
Public health officials who refuse to share a stage with opponents of water fluoridation have no business deciding matters of public health, a New York chemistry professor told 115 Utahns at anti-fluoride forums Saturday. The forums, in Salt Lake City and Woods Cross, had been billed as debates. But proponents refused to appear with Paul […]
Woodside California rejects fluoridation
Residents in the wealthy town town of Woodside are apparently prepared to take care of their teeth themselves. Woodside’s Town Council, in a 6-1 vote on Tuesday, told San Francisco utilities officials that the town doesn’t want fluoride added to its water. Woodside, like many other Peninsula communities, buys its water from San Francisco. Fluoride […]
Fluoride backers tout thrift, kids
Proponents of fluoridating water are appealing to voters’ sympathy for underprivileged children as well as their pocketbooks, although some Davis County officials are questioning whether the cost of fluoridation would be as low as proponents have estimated. At a news conference with Salt Lake Valley board of health members, dentists and doctors Wednesday in Salt […]
Fluoride question to be put to voters in Brattleboro
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — Residents here will be voting in a referendum Nov. 7 on whether the town should add fluoride to its drinking water. The select board voted unanimously Tuesday to put the issue to the voters in a referendum. The board also set two public forums on the issue — Sept. 27 and […]
Health boards want fluoride on ballot
Representatives of the Utah Association of Local Boards of Health are calling on commissioners of Utah and Davis counties to put the fluoride issue on the November ballot. Gayle Judd, Pleasant Grove, president-elect of the association and chairman of the Utah County Board of Health, said local health departments want the issue on the ballot. […]
Ithaca to Vote on Fluoridation in November
ITHACA — The Tompkins County Board of Health will be asked to take a stand today on the fluoridation of the City of Ithaca’s water supply. Public Health Director Alice Cole plans to put the question before the eight-member board, which is made up of local physicians; Tompkins County Rep. Charles Evans, R-Dryden; at-large member […]
East Wenatchee to vote on fluoridation
EAST WENATCHEE — Eastside residents will vote on fluoridation of the regional water system in the Nov. 7 general election. It will be a non-binding, advisory vote. Neither proponents nor opponents are entirely happy. The East Wenatchee Water District’s three commissioners voted unanimously Monday to put the issue on the ballot. Only the district’s 13,000-plus […]