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Scappoose: Fluoride question on March ballot
The decision about whether or not to keep fluoride in Scappoose’s drinking water is headed to voters and set for a March special election, but voters will also have a chance to file a petition for review of the ballot title. A city notice emailed to The Spotlight Dec. 26 outlines the purpose of the […]
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Portland: Sam Adams Exit Interview
Portland’s departing mayor hastily answers some of our questions. When Sam Adams filed to run for mayor in early 2008, both he and Portland seemed on the verge of a triumphal march. The economy was rocking. As the veteran of 15 years at city hall cruised to victory, he set a civil-rights precedent as America’s […]
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Portland: Council pushes ahead with water fluoridation plans
PORTLAND – The Portland City Council voted 3-1 to move water fluoridation up by a year, which could affect a planned citizen vote on the issue. It blocks a unanimous vote by the council in September, to add fluoride to Bull Run water, which serves the City of Portland and other water users. The fluoride […]
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Portland: Council may speed up fluoride vote
Opponents of fluoridating Portland’s water system are criticizing Commissioner Randy Leonard’s effort to speed up a public vote on the issue. The opponents have qualified a measure on the issue for the May 2014 ballot. The City Council will consider a resolution introduced by Leonard on Thursday to hold the election in May 2013 instead. […]
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Portland: Fluoride opponents want more study, 2014 vote
Opponents of attempts to put fluoride in Portland’s water demanded that the city form an “independent scientific review panel to evaluate safety concerns” about the process. The Clean Water Portland PAC also wants the Council to reject efforts that would move up a public referendum on fluoridation by a year, from May 2014 to next […]
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Will Portland City Council push for a fluoride vote in 2013?
Fluoride proponents are testing the waters at Portland City Hall to see if officials will schedule a public vote sometime in 2013 instead of 2014. Last month, opponents blocked the City Council’s unanimous September decision that would have added fluoride to drinking water reaching roughly 900,000 residents in Portland and the suburbs. The successful referendum […]
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Portland. Fluoridation: Nature Thought of it First
Over 3,000 studies have demonstrated that fluoridation is safe, effective, and socially equitable, according to the author I have been a general dentist for 36 years, graduating from Northwestern University Dental School in the fluoridated city of Chicago. I practiced in Chicago for 4 years before moving to Portland in 1980. I retired from my […]
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Portland. Sources Say: Are politics safe to drink?
We blame it on the Fog of Politics Sources erred last issue when we said the fluoride referendum would appear on the May 2013 ballot. In fact, it is scheduled to go before Portland a full year later, in the May 2014 primary election. The City Council has the authority to move the measure to […]
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Portland’s Fluoridation Opponents Could Learn a Lot from Fairbanks
Like it or not, fluoridation is all mixed up in politics. I don’t like it at all, but I don’t always get what I want, as evidenced by Stanford beating the Ducks last Saturday. I also don’t like taking drugs unless I absolutely have to. Fluoride is a drug. It’s not an essential nutrient, like […]
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Editorial: A reason to cheer the Portland fluoride vote
By collecting enough signatures to force Portland’s fluoridation plan to the May 2014 ballot, a group called Clean Water Portland has guaranteed many months of vigorous debate. Portland residents should be happy about this. Clean Water Portland may be completely wrong about fluoridation, but its push for a public vote is exactly what’s supposed to […]
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