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Health officials want Brooksville to bring back fluoride
BROOKSVILLE — In a last-minute budget decision two years ago, the Brooksville City Council voted 5-0 to stop putting fluoride into the city’s water supply. The vote came without debate and with no publicity. Now, county health officials say they want to appeal to the city to reverse its call and bring back the mineral […]
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Tarpon Springs. Fluoride: A Further Response to an Answered Question
n April of 2012 the Tarpon Springs City Commission voted to fluoridate the water supply. The measure has already been voted on, and with a unanimous vote, little can be done about it. Last week at our first candidates forum I was asked my opinion on the matter. I spoke truthfully and expressed my disagreement […]
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Ormond Beach. What to Watch in 2013: Fluoride
It may be a new year, but some old business, such as the fluoridation of the city’s water supply, will remain on the Ormond Beach City Commission’s table in 2013. The issue, which was front and center in several commission meetings in the closing months of 2012, will resurface in 2013 during workshops and public […]
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Milton no longer adding fluoride to water
Excerpt: … City officials decided to pull fluoride from drinking water in November as “strictly a cost-saving measure” according Ricky Hinote, director of water and wastewater treatment for Milton. “The grant money used to pay for it ran out,” Hinote said. “It was going to stop due to money last year, but the state gave […]
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Vote: No fluoride in Pine Island water supply
PINE ISLAND, FL -After months of debate, the Greater Pine Island Water Association says it will not add fluoride to its customers’ water. Board members voted on the controversial issue Tuesday afternoon. It was a big win for a small but very vocal group of neighbors living on Pine Island. The Water Association fought for […]
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Ormond tables fluoridation vote
ORMOND BEACH — The city’s fluoride saga continues. Commissioners Tuesday night voted against an ordinance that would have asked Ormond voters to decide whether the city should take the cavity-fighting material, in the form of hydrofluorosilicic acid, out of the water supply. The mail ballot election would have taken place in March 2013 and would […]
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Pine Island: Deadline for fluoride ballots Dec. 6
The deadline for ballots to be returned to the Greater Pine Island Water Association concerning whether or not residents want the fluoride level to be increased to 0.7 ppm is this week. President Mike Faulkner said the ballots must be returned to the water company by 3 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 6. He said the ballots […]
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Editorial: Ormond should get past fluoridation questions
It appears that Ormond Beach is going to have a re-do on the issue of fluoridation of water — 55 years after the city got voters’ approval for fluoridation. Insistent complaints may force city government to have another public referendum on the issue. The mail-in referendum could cost taxpayers more than $45,000. But the real […]
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Ormond leaders to consider referendum on fluoridation
ORMOND BEACH — City commissioners will consider whether to move forward with a referendum that would decide the fate of the city’s fluoridation program. “Personally, I’m tired of hearing about it at every meeting,” said Mayor Ed Kelley. “We’ve spent so much time on it.” The city could begin the process Tuesday night that would […]
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Pinellas. Sue Carlton: Lessons learned after the fluoride fever breaks
The Pinellas County Commission’s fluoride fiasco could be studied in high school civics classes for lessons about how government works. Or, how it doesn’t work. But then it does again. Those particular Pinellas politicians have traditionally been a steady, nuts-and-bolts, in-the-middle sort of board — especially compared with their commission counterparts in Hillsborough County, pretty […]
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