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Is Loren Parks getting involved in Portland’s fluoride campaign?
The political action committee for the Taxpayers Association of Oregon is coming out against fluoridating Portland’s drinking water — so is it possible that conservative Nevada businessman Loren Parks is footing the bill? The group’s leader won’t say. Taxpayers’ director Jason Williams confirmed the group is against Portland’s fluoride measure and updated its campaign filings […]
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Portland: Latest poll shows fluoride measure failing
Things aren’t looking good for Portland residents who want to fluoridate the city’s water, at least according to the most recent KATU poll. The poll, which was conducted by Survey USA and released just five days before the election, shows that 53 percent of likely voters are against fluoridating the water. Just 40 percent of […]
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Why I’m voting ‘no’ on fluoridating Portland’s water: Guest opinion
I was honored to serve on the Portland City Council for 17 years. During that time I worked to protect our Bull Run water supply from logging and other degradations. If you have tried water in other major cities, you know that Portland’s clean water is one of the things that make our city unique. […]
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Portland: Money Continues to Pour in For Fluoridators
Today’s large donation to Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, the campaign proposing Measure 26-151, which would fluoridate Portland’s water supply, comes from Upstream Public Health. Upstream, a Portland non-profit, is the group that started the fluoridation movement rolling last year in clandestine talks with then City Commissioner Randy Leonard and Mayor Sam Adams. Filings with the […]
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Portland. Dentists Throw More Money at Fluoride Vote
As we enter the final week of the May election cycle, the big money continues to flow into the “yes” side of Measure 26-151, which calls for the fluoridation of Portland’s water supply. Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland reported two contributions totaling $68,000 from the Dentists of Oregon PAC, bringing that group’s total giving to the […]
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Portland: A teacher’s concerns regarding fluoridation of our drinking water
1) As a delivery system, I believe adding fluoride to tap water is doomed to failure. In my work as a Reading Specialist at high-poverty schools, I have learned this ironic and sad fact: Many kids rarely drink water. Why should they? No one has taken the time to inform them how their bodies operate […]
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Salem uses fluoridation chemical that Portland’s hotly debating
STAYTON, Ore. – As a heated battle rages in Portland over whether it should add fluoride to its water for the first time, the city of Salem has fluoridated its water since 1964. And since 2001, it has used liquid fluorosilicic acid, which is the same chemical that Portland will use to fluoridate its water […]
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Portland. Voting low in special election so far
With a little more than one week to go before the May 21 Special Election, only around 11 percent of Multnomah County voters have mailed in their ballots. That’s a surprisingly low return rate so far, given the highly visible campaigns being waged over the measure to fluoridate Portland’s water. Around three-quarters of all registered […]
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Portland: DEQ union comes out against water fluoridation
The union local representing Oregon Department of Environmental Quality employees has gone on record in opposition to drinking water fluoridation. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3336 voted 28 to 18 in late April against flouridation in general. The information was publicized via a news release sent out Monday by Clean […]
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Adding Fluoride to Portland Drinking Water? Really?
When the prospect of adding fluoride to Portland’s drinking water reared it’s head once again, our first reaction was how unlikely in today’s times of enlightenment about toxins and the sacredness of all things natural, in a progressive city that historically has stood against conventional medicine by voting against fluoridating public waters when other major […]
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