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Portland Prepares For Fluoride Vote
This month, voters will decide whether to approve a plan to fluoridate Portland’s water. Supporters say Portland children – especially in low-income families – suffer aggravated dental problems because the city has chosen not to add fluoride. Opponents say water fluoridation is the wrong way to address a public health problem. And so a battle […]
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Other cities at the mercy of Portland fluoride vote
GRESHAM, Ore. – As the Portland fluoride vote approaches, campaigns on both sides are working hard. If voters approve it, about 900,000 people would get fluoride in their drinking water. But nearly a third of those people don’t get to vote. 19 cities buy water from the Bull Run Reservoir and the Portland Water Bureau. […]
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Portland: Editorial by The Oregonian for fluoridation
Fluoride will help grow healthier teeth in Portland: Editorial endorsement It seems that Clean Water Portland, which opposes fluoridation, has been doing some campaign advertising masquerading as a poll. One of the questions, as reported last week by The Oregonian’s Ryan Kost, is the following nugget of nasty: “Did you know the fluoridation chemical the […]
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Portland: Bull Run drinking water would get fluoridated at Gresham treatment plant if voters approve it
While debates flame around whether or not to fluoridate drinking water, the Portland Water Bureau’s Lusted Hill treatment facility in Gresham hums along, shaded by Douglas fir and alder. This is where fluoridation will happen if voters approve it May 21. Knowing how and why other chemicals are added at the Lusted Hill plant helps […]
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Portland: Fluoride Measure Makes For A Plump Voters’ Guide
Arguments for and against Portland’s fluoridation measure have set a new record in the Multnomah County voters’ guide. Elections Director Tim Scott says voters may notice their guide feels thicker than usual. He says it’s because of Measure 26-151. “For that one measure, there were 22 arguments in favor, and 41 arguments against, for a […]
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Portland fluoride vote: Contentious issue sparks a civil war among progressives
Heather Leek and Rebecca Bauer both voted for President Barack Obama, champion school funding measures and support the right of gays and lesbians to marry. But over cocktails one recent evening, the longtime Portland friends found themselves sparring over fluoridating Portland’s water. “I didn’t see that coming,” said Leek, a supporter of fluoridation and president […]
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Portland. Fluoride debate: Study looked at fluoride vs. non-fluoride in Portland area
In lieu of the contentious fluoridation vote in Portland this month, the KATU Problem Solvers continue to ask the question: is fluoridation working right now? To help answer that question, I dug up a little-known study that evaluates this question right here in the Portland metro area. Five years ago, Dr. Gerardo Maupomé of Indiana […]
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Portland: Anti-fluoridation group says arsenic hitches ride on water chemicals
Fluoridation opponents, citing a lab analysis of Philomath’s fluoridated water, argued Thursday that the fluoridation chemicals planned for Portland’s water supply could contain a deadly amount of arsenic. Clean Water Portland, the main campaign committee fighting the water fluoridation measure on Portland’s May 21 special election ballot, commissioned the study because Philomath uses fluorosilicic acid, […]
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Portland: To fluoride or not to fluoride
Facing yet another vote that will determine the quality of Portland’s drinking water, I’ve been thinking a lot about freedom and oppression. I remember being at a UN Peace Day event where one woman told a gut wrenching story of religious oppression in which missionaries used physical torture to force her grandparents (then living with […]
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Editorial by the Portland Mercury for fluoridation
The Sanest Arguments Against Fluoride…And Why They’re Still Wrong IF FLUORIDE FAILS at the ballot box later this month—an incredibly distinct possibility, and something of a tragedy for Portland—it won’t be because of the kooks and the conspiracy theorists who’ve spent decades stoking panic about a safe, tested, and effective health measure. That ugly strain […]
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