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Clearwater: Reverse Osmosis Facility to Double City’s Drinking Water Production
Officials break ground on a $34 million reverse osmosis water treatment plant that is expected to more than double the city’s drinking water production Monday. Up to 6.25 million gallons of brackish water would be converted to drinking water daily for Clearwater Public Utility users once the facility is complete in December 2014. “For decades […]
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Florida fertilizer plant: $9.5M settlement reached in East Hill pollution case
A $9.5 million settlement reached this week could bring thousands of dollars to some East Hill property owners to compensate for pollution believed to have seeped beneath their land from a Superfund site. On Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Joel Boles gave preliminary approval to a settlement in a class action suit that alleges that pollutants […]
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Pulitzer Prize awarded to Nickens & Ruth of Tampa Bay Times for editorial writing
Citation For distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction, using any available journalistic tool, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Awarded to Tim Nickens and Daniel Ruth of the Tampa Bay Times, St. […]
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Editorial: Brooksville Council wise to seek fluoride facts
Note from Fluoride Action Network: This newspaper is pro-fluoridation and as this editorial clearly shows, bullies those who oppose their position. A Brooksville Council majority wants to hear the facts about fluoride. Good for them. Too bad the close-minded mayor remains an obstructionist to an open dialogue about the health and financial benefits of fluoridated […]
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Mayor faces challenge as Brooksville council members seek to reopen fluoride discussion
Brooksville Mayor Lara Bradburn, a strong opponent of returning fluoride to the city’s water supply, may have a new battle on her hands. Speaking during his closing comments at Monday night’s City Council meeting, council member Frankie Burnett adamantly stated that he felt there was nothing wrong with reopening the debate over fluoride, and he […]
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Brooksville mayor trips bid to put fluoride on council agenda
BROOKSVILLE — Based on the icy reception she gave two proponents, no one needed to guess how much of a hot-button issue the subject of fluoridation of Brooksville’s water is to Mayor Lara Bradburn. Hernando County Health Department dental program manager Teresa Keenan appeared before the City Council on Monday night, hoping to get the […]
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Fluoride returns to Pinellas County drinking water
CLEARWATER — The water fluoridation equipment at the Pinellas County water treatment plant has been idle for more than a year, but at 12:01 Friday morning, it was turned back on. You can’t see or taste the fluoride in your water, but the next time you turn on your tap, you’ll be getting a minuscule […]
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Fluoride to be added back into Pinellas County water
Water fluoridation will begin again on March 1, 2013, for Pinellas County water customers — as well as customers of Clearwater, Pinellas Park, Safety Harbor and Tarpon Springs. In October 2011, county commissioners voted to end the practice of adding fluoride into the area’s drinking water. The decision caused a heated debate among residents and […]
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Pine Island: Upcoming island water association by-law addition and directors election
To the editor All of the voting members of the Greater Pine Island Water Association should have received their ballot for voting for water board positions and the new amendment to the by-laws, Article XV. If you haven’t received your ballot, stop in GPIWA office and they will provide a duplicate. The ballot must be […]
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Editorial: Brooksville fluoride debate falls into cavity
There are two things wrong with the Brooksville City Council’s decision to take fluoride out of the municipal drinking water. It’s the wrong public policy that will prove costly to residents’ oral and financial health and it was done in a clandestine manner to avoid public scrutiny. The council should be ashamed for ducking a […]
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