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Portland Council Passes Fluoridation With Unanimous Vote
After a controversial vote, Portland city leaders have directed the Water Bureau to build a fluoridation plant, scheduled to come online in 2014. April Baer reports the vote paves the way for months of political activity for supporters and opponents. Commissioner Amanda Fritz delivered a ten-minute speech before her vote. She’s facing a competitive re-election […]
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Portland, Ore., Becomes Latest Fluoride Battleground
Over jeers and cheers from the audience, commissioners on the Portland, Ore., City Council voted Wednesday to add fluoride to the city’s drinking water starting in 2014. Portland is the largest American city that doesn’t add fluoride to its drinking water. But some groups have raised questions about the possible risks from fluoridation and oppose […]
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Portland: Critics host forum against fluoride
Opponents of fluoridating Portland’s water supply are hosting a public meeting tonight, one day before the Portland City Council is expected to approve the idea. Clean Water Portland.org invites the public to learn more about the issue, at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Eliot Chapel of the First Unitarian Church, 1011 S.W. […]
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Fluoridation decision is too quick for Portland
American philosopher John Dewey believed the key to solving societal problems was the “scientific approach.” Aspects include being critical and objective, and drawing conclusions based on the whole of the evidence instead of selectively choosing only the evidence that will support a conclusion already made. The present debate about whether or not to add fluoride […]
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Portland Fluoride Debate Represents Ideological Clash
PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s a dental story told so often it borders on cliche. When someone moves to Portland from another state – and that’s most people you meet in this city of transplants – their new dentist takes one look at their excellent teeth and concludes they must have been raised elsewhere, a place […]
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Portland Mayor Sam Adams does not find FAN “a credible source of information”
I was asked to watch the film “An Inconvenient Tooth.” I take my decision on fluoridation very seriously so I asked my staff and others to provide us answers to the questions raised in the film. The first interview is with Dr. Paul Connett, has been criticized for taking studies out of context and making blatantly false statements. For example, I […]
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Portland: Fluoride vote set for Wednesday
The City Council is scheduled to vote on an ordinance to fluoridate Portland’s water on Wednesday after a lengthy and contentious public hearing on the issue last Thursday. A majority of the five-member council has already declared they will vote for the measure. They are Mayor Sam Adams, Commissioner Randy Leonard and commissioner Nick Fish. […]
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Doubts as Portland Weighs Fluoride and Its Civic Values
A version of this article will appear in print on September 9, 2012, on page A18 of the New York edition. PORTLAND, Ore. — Who bears responsibility for an impoverished child with a mouth full of rotting teeth? Parents? Soda companies? The ingrained inequities of capitalism? Pick your villain, or champion. They are all on […]
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Multnomah County joins push for fluoridation in Portland
The moment 9-year-old Sara Hassa opened her mouth, the Multnomah County dental hygienist peering down at her knew one thing for certain. “You don’t live in Portland, do you?” Debra Mendoza said. Sara, a fourth-grader, shook her head. “Beaverton,” she replied. Neither she nor her sister, seated in another dental chair down the hall in […]
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Albany. Editorial: Why dentists are still busy
The city council in Portland is determined to order the fluoridation of the water on which Portland and surrounding cities depend. In most of the mid-valley we had this debate years ago, and more recently in Philomath. In Albany the water has been fluoridated for longer than anyone can remember. So you would think the […]
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