latest news:
Showing 10 of 17145 Articles:
-
Battle Creek and Madison Residents Vote No to Fluoridation
Excerpts: Battle Creek FLUORIDE issue Yes (to prohibit fluoride), 407 No (against the prohibition), 146 Madison fluoride issue For adding fluoride, 169 Against adding fluoride, 447
United States, Nebraska -
Many communities vote to opt out of fluoride plan
Voters across Nebraska decided Tuesday to opt out of a new law that would require some communities to add fluoride to their drinking water, an outcome that caught David O’Doherty off-guard. “We’re surprised and disappointed,” said O’Doherty, executive director of the Nebraska Dental Association. Adding fluoride to a community’s drinking water supply is the most […]
United States, Nebraska -
Milford City votes no to fluoridation
Milford City Fluoride Issue YES – 380 NO – 335 Explanation of vote: A Yes vote means the city of Seward/Milford will not add fluoride to the water. A No vote mean we will add fluoride to the cities’ water. ——————————————————————————– NOTE: Seward City voted for fluoridation: YES – 1239 NO – 1478
United States, Nebraska -
Plainview and Pierce vote no to fluoridation
CITY OF PLAINVIEW ISSUE (FLUORIDE) YES: 405 (47 + 358) NO: 234 (30 + 204) See explanation of vote: City Of Plainview Issue: Shall the City of Plainview, Nebraska, adopt an ordinance to prohibit the addition of fluoride to the City’s water system? Yes (To prohibit fluoridation from the water system) No (Against the prohibition […]
United States, Nebraska -
Chadron and Crawford: No to fluoridation
Dawes County reported a voter turnout of 61 percent in this election cycle. Both Chadron and Crawford defeated the move to fluoridate community water sources. State law now requires communities with populations of over 1,000 to fluoridate their water unless voters opt out. In Crawford, 240 voters said they did not want fluoridation, compared to […]
United States, Nebraska -
Fluoride fails across area, especially in Hastings
HASTINGS — Public fluoridation was a big loser not only in Grand Island but across Central Nebraska on Tuesday. Every other Central Nebraska town that had the issue on the ballot — Aurora, Broken Bow, Central City, Hastings, Ord, Ravenna, St. Paul, Shelton, Stromsburg and Wood River — voted to opt out of the state’s […]
United States, Nebraska -
Communities decide about fluoride
York, NE — The issue of fluoridation has been decided in York and a number of surrounding communities, with mixed results. Many communities in the state voted on the issue, as a mandate was handed down by the Nebraska Legislature this past session, to all cities with 1,000 or more population. All cities of that […]
United States, Nebraska -
Fluoride OK’d in just two of eight towns
KEARNEY – Six of eight Hub Territory towns voted against fluoridating city water in the general election Tuesday. Broken Bow, Cozad, Gothenburg, Lexington, Ravenna and Shelton voted against fluoridating city water supplies. Alma and Franklin voted to fluoridate water. Kearney, Holdrege and Minden already fluoridate water. LB245 was approved in April and requires all Nebraska […]
United States, Nebraska -
Several Neb. cities vote against fluoridation
Excerpt: … It looks like voters in more Nebraska cities have rejected proposals to add fluoride to their public water supplies. The latest communities to report rejection of the plan were those in Bayard, Bridgeport, Chadron, Crawford, Hastings, Kimball, Mitchell, Scottsbluff and Sidney. Others whose voters said no were Beatrice, Broken Bow, Cozad, Friend, Gothenburg, […]
United States, Nebraska -
Broken Bow: Voters say no to fluoride
Title: Voters say no to flouride [sic] in Bow Broken Bow voters approved a ballot question that keeps fluoride out of the city’s water system. A vote “For” the question approved an ordinance that allows the city to opt out of mandatory fluoridation for Nebraska communities with more than 1,000 residents. There were 892 votes […]
United States, Nebraska