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Fluoride gets political in Ormond Beach
ORMOND BEACH — A divisive cavity-fighting mineral added in the water supply has seeped into the city’s political air. A campaign flier being circulated by Alan Burton, who is running against Zone 1 Commissioner James Stowers, states the challenger will get fluoride out of the water if elected. “Do you want fluoride out of your […]
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Pinellas. Editorial: Voters should see through commissioners’ misdirection play
Hard as they try to change the focus of their campaigns by creating nonexistent issues, Pinellas County Commissioners Neil Brickfield and Nancy Bostock can’t change their votes to remove fluoride from the county’s drinking water. Brickfield has mischaracterized his opponent, Janet Long, as being a tax-and-spend Democrat as a Seminole City Council member. Bostock has […]
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Pinellas County Editorial: The real cost of the fluoride fiasco
Pinellas County commissioners did not just ignore established science when they voted 4-3 to stop adding fluoride this year to the county’s drinking water. They also cost families plenty of money and unlimited frustration, because dentists are now advising parents to give fluoride to their children to prevent tooth decay. Two of the Fluoride Four […]
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Pinellas commissioners may lose seat over fluoride debate
The issue is the economy. (Not fluoride.) Jobs need to be saved. (Not teeth.) Voters care about choices. (Not conspiracies.) And that, in a nutshell, is the story of the two Pinellas County Commission races on the ballot. If incumbents Neil Brickfield and Nancy Bostock are correct — they say residents aren’t focused on their […]
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Editorial: Common sense suggests Indian River County officials reduce fluoride levels in drinking water sooner than later
Why wait? This is the question for Indian River County utilities officials, who continue to maintain a fluoride level in the county’s drinking water that exceeds limits suggested by both federal health officials and the American Dental Association. … Indian River County remains the lone government on the Treasure Coast that exceeds fluoride levels of […]
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Pinellas County: An issue with teeth
Pinellas Commissioners’ 4-3 anti-fluoride vote has put a scare into voters. But there’s another development that’s even scarier. It was almost exactly a year ago (October 11, 2011) that the Pinellas County Commission voted 4-3 to stop adding fluoride to the county’s water supply. Although water fluoridation had long met resistance in Pinellas (one reason […]
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Ormond Beach: City to put fluoridation to referendum
Ormond Beach voters will have a chance to vote, for the first time since 1957, whether or not to continue fluoridating the city’s water supply. The Ormond Beach City Commission moved, instead of discussing the draft of a letter to be sent to the city’s fluoride provider, to draft a referendum that could be put […]
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Pinellas County: Candidates discuss business, jobs
Excerpt: Candidates for several state and county officials at an Oct. 11 political forum discussed ways government can help businesses grow during the economic slowdown, among other issues… District 3 County Commissioner Nancy Bostock, a Clearwater Republican, said that when “somebody throws out that the commission raised your EMS taxes 46 percent, that it true, […]
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Pine Island: GPIWA board to let membership vote on fluoride issue
The Board of Directors of The Greater Pine Island Water Association Inc. has decided to hold a vote of its membership in order to determine their opinion on their plans to increase the existing fluoride level of the greater Pine Island water supply to the optimal level recommended by the U. S. Department of Health […]
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Dunedin: Mayor Changes Stance on Fluoridated Water Supply
Last November, Mayor Dave Eggers said he didn’t want fluoride in the city’s water supply. Three weeks ago, he announced that he’d changed his mind. Eggers, up for re-election this November, publicly reversed his stance on water fluoridation nearly a year after he cast a losing vote to take it out in a 3-2 commission decision, that […]
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