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Portland effort to fluoridate water supply halted until public vote
Portland must delay its effort to fluoridate Bull Run water until getting city voters’ approval. The city elections office on Thursday verified that a referendum challenging the City Council’s September fluoridation decision has qualified for the ballot. That puts an automatic stay on any efforts to proceed. A vote will be scheduled in May 2014, […]
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Fluoride referendum qualifies for Portland’s May 2014 ballot
State, county and city officials announced Thursday that Clean Water Portland’s anti-fluoride referendum qualified for the May 2014 ballot with more than 33,000 valid signatures. The group needed about 19,000 signatures to halt Portland’s plans — approved Sept. 12 by the Portland City Council — to add fluoride to the region’s drinking water. But Clean Water […]
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Portland: Anti-fluoride group to launch second campaign
Anti-fluoride forces will soon start a second signature-gathering campaign, for an initiative that would amend the Portland City Charter to ban fluoridation. Multnomah Circuit Court Judge Karin Immergut cleared the way for signature-gathering Tuesday when she approved the ballot language for the initiative, said Kim Kaminski, director of Clean Water Portland. The group earlier submitted […]
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Portland. Poll: City evenly split on putting fluoride in drinking water
As the debate raged before the Portland City Council’s unanimous vote to fluoridate Portland’s drinking water in September, fluoride opponents had the loudest voices. But the latest KATU news poll conducted by Survey USA finds the fluoride debate has pretty much split voters down the middle. The poll showed that 45 percent of Portland’s registered voters think […]
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Portland officials reject less than 3 percent of fluoride signatures
The Portland Auditor’s Office has forwarded 42,743 anti-fluoride signatures to the Multnomah County Elections Division for further review, rejecting only about 1,200 signatures or just under 3 percent of the submitted total. That means Clean Water Portland, the group behind the effort to force a public vote on the Portland City Council’s decision Sept. 12 […]
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What the research says about fluoride
As a practicing dentist for 30 years, a former faculty member and researcher at OHSU’s School of Dentistry, and someone who has worked in public health dental clinics, I would like to address the recent opinion piece on fluoridating Portland’s water by Effie Greathouse (“Debating Portland’s water: When I check the research, fluoride makes sense,” Oct. […]
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Portland City Council calendars don’t show meetings reported by fluoride lobbyists
Fluoride lobbyists met personally with all five members of the Portland City Council in July or August but only one of those initial meetings appears on public calendars — under a vague heading — leaving lingering questions about the effectiveness of the city’s lobbying and reporting requirements. Promoted by then-Commissioner Sam Adams beginning in 2005, […]
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Portland: Fluoridation Referendum Leaves Decision in Voters’ Hands
There is one main benefit of Clean Water Portland’s successful signature-gathering campaign to qualify for a city-wide referendum vote on fluoridation: It allows time for citizens to make an informed decision. Take the question of fluoridation’s effectiveness. Proponents often say there are “thousands” of studies showing this. The number itself is questionable but the quality […]
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Portland fluoride foes submit signatures ahead of deadline
Group seeks vote on plan to add chemical to city’s water Opponents of Portland’s plan to add fluoride to the city’s water turned in signature petitions a day ahead of a deadline and with thousands of signatures to spare. Clean Water Portland leader Kim Kaminski said the group submitted more than 43,000 signatures Thursday — […]
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Anti-fluoride group collects 43,236 signatures in fight for Portland vote
Fluoride opponents celebrated Thursday outside Portland City Hall after submitting more than twice as many signatures needed to force a public vote on the city’s controversial plan. Leaders of Clean Water Portland said 43,236 voters signed a petition to block — and refer to the ballot — the city’s Sept. 12 decision approving fluoride. City […]
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