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The Dalles: Fluoridation on City Council July 8 agenda
A public hearing on how to fund street maintenance and a discussion on fluoride top The Dalles City Council’s agenda at their Monday, July 8, meeting, starting at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall… The fluoridation issue comes before the city council as a result of concerns expressed by Robert Boyet of The Dalles during the […]
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Portland: Investigation finds no wrongdoing in how state handled dental health report
An independent review of how the state handled a dental health survey in the midst of a heated fluoridation debate in Portland has found no wrongdoing on the part of state employees. The Oregon Health Authority has staunchly maintained — and now the state’s Human Resources Department has confirmed — that there was nothing inappropriate […]
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Portland: One State Employee is Guilty of a “Minor” Fluoridated Transgression
Fluoride‘s resounding defeat in Portland is nearly a month behind us, but controversy around the most-contentious vote in recent memory lingers—sort of. The Oregon Health Authority has found in an internal investigation [PDF] one of its employees committed a “minor violation” of the state’s acceptable use policy in the run-up to the vote, when she […]
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Portland: Fluoride vote couldn’t be bought, even with a 3-to-1 cash advantage
[The] fluoride vote, it’s probably a safe bet that most Portlanders want to put it behind them. Still, City Hall Watch would be remiss if we didn’t report the final fundraising totals. According to campaign finance records, with everything accounted for, Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland — the pro-fluoride group — raised $958,000. That sum includes […]
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Portland. The Fight Against Fluoridation: Epilogue
It’s been almost two weeks since Portland voters overwhelmingly rejected a plan to add fluorosisilic acid to Bull Run tap water. Outspent 3 to 1 and facing fluoride lobbyists, high-paid consultants, and king-maker campaign operators, a loose-knit posse of citizen activists banded together to help Clean Water Portland overcome ‘Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland’ by a […]
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Portland: Fluoride Campaign Spent $889,000 to Lose by 20 Points
Money can’t buy toothiness. The final spending tallies on the battle over Ballot Measure 26-151 show the pro-fluoride campaign outspent opponents nearly 3-to-1—and still lost by 20 percent of the vote in the May 21 special election. Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, the pro-fluoride campaign, spent $889,038 during the fluoride fight. The anti-fluoridation campaign, Clean Water […]
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Portland: The election may be over, but fluoride is still a hot topic
A new petition recently submitted to the City of Portland called the ‘Portland Clean Water Measure’ could be the next move in the fluoride debate. On May 21, voters defeated a measure to put fluoride into Portland’s drinking water. It was the first time in 30 years that the issue had been put on the […]
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Portland: Health Authority director asks for review of how fluoride report was handled
The Oregon Health Authority has staunchly maintained that there was nothing inappropriate about the fact that state officials managing a survey of kids’ oral health met with the architects of Portland’s pro-fluoride campaign in January. Despite e-mails indicating a staffer had gone over details (though no specific data) of the report with Upstream Public Health […]
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Portland, Oregon, Votes Down Plan to Fluoridate its Water, Again
For the fourth time since the 1950s, voters in Portland, Oregon, a city known for its embrace of progressive values, last week voted down a plan passed by the city commission to fluoridate its water. A local paper tried to make sense of it all: For people used to thinking of Portland as the earnestly quirky liberal […]
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Portland. Hotseat: Kim Kaminski. For the strategist behind fluoride’s defeat, the fight isn’t over.
Kim Kaminski just got done burying the Portland power machine in the May 21 election, so excuse her if she’s a bit direct. Kaminski led Clean Water Portland, the campaign against fluoridating Portland’s drinking water. Outspent 3-to-1, opponents crushed the measure, 61 percent to 39 percent. In many ways, the vote had been the fight […]
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