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Fircrest council to vote on water fluoridation issue Tuesday
The Fircrest City Council will make a decision at its regular meeting Tuesday whether to end its 57-year practice of adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water. The vote comes at the request of a group of people — some who live in the city, others who don’t — who have petitioned the council since […]
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Election 2014: Candidate Q&A — Snohomish County Executive
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of questions and answers with candidates who will appear on the Aug. 5 primary election ballot. James Robert Deal PO Box 2276 Lynnwood, WA 98036 425-771?1110 james@jamesdeal.com Prefers: Democratic Party YouTube Video: http://jamesrobertdeal.org/videos/ The candidate did not respond with direct answers to the questionnaire. Instead he submitted […]
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Kalama to consider removing fluoride from water
The controversial “F” word is once again rearing its head in Washington state. Kalama City Council will decide Wednesday night whether to hand the decision over to voters on the November ballot. Mayor Pete Poulsen is pushing to remove fluoride from the water. “It’s a very passionate subject, there’s no doubt about it,” said Poulsen, […]
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Kalama council wants voters’ advice on water fluoridation policy
Kalama voters will most likely decide whether the city continues to add fluoride to its drinking water, a practice that’s been hotly debated in the past several months. Members of the City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to ask voters in a Nov. 4 election whether city water should contain fluoride. The council ultimately decides whether […]
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July 2: Fluoride back on Kalama council’s plate
The Kalama City Council on Wednesday will consider letting voters decide whether to continue adding fluoride in the town’s drinking water. Kalama has received nationwide and even worldwide attention since city leaders began debating the mayor’s proposal to eliminate fluoride. Kalama has fluoridated its water for about 50 years. Fluoride advocates say it safely reduces […]
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Anti-fluoride group wants chemical removed from Fircrest water supply
A single mother of three young boys, Debbie Cook cares about nutrition. She buys organic food when she can afford it and has considered planting a garden of pesticide-free produce. Then she thinks about the water she’d have to use to help the garden grow. “I would (have to) water it with fluoridated water,” said […]
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Kalama City Council stalls on fluoride
KALAMA — Mayor Pete Poulsen recommended the city let voters decide on his proposal to remove fluoride from the town’s drinking water. “I’m hoping that the council will agree to move in this direction,” he told the Kalama City Council Wednesday night. “We’ll take it to the polls, and it will decide its own fate.” […]
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Kalama considering keeping fluoride out of water supply
Kalama City Council member Mary Putka grew up in Portland, where battles over water fluoridation raged for decades. Now, that same debate has bubbled up in her new city. It’s like a “bad dream,” she said. “It just came out of the blue.” Putka, who acknowledges that she typically is a quiet voice on the […]
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Fluoride survey of little use to Kalama officials
KALAMA — City officials trying to decide whether to remove tooth-strengthening fluoride from the town’s drinking water won’t get much guidance from a recently completed public opinion survey. The survey, based on responses to a questionnaire the city sent out with utility bills, showed that 53 percent oppose continued use of flouride, with 47 favoring […]
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The next phase: Kaiser’s Mead smelting plant undergoes demolition
Thousands of people drew paychecks from the sprawling Kaiser Aluminum smelter in north Spokane during its more than 50 years of operation. The California company that bought the Mead site last year is about a third of the way through a project to put people to work on the property again, this time as a new […]
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