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NYC: Fluoride costs to be increased $1.1 million for Fiscal Year 2009
Excerpt from The City of New York Executive Budget Fiscal Year 2009 Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor Office of Management and Budget Mark Page, Director Message of the Mayor Page 161 • the Department [of Environmental Protection] will increase its budget for FLUORIDE by $1.1 million due to rising costs. ————————————————————————- See also: Fiscal 2009 Executive […]
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Cobleskill: Surprise! Village votes to put flouride back
In a surprise unanimous move, with no discussion, the Village of Cobleskill has agreed to put fluoride back in its water. For the second time in two meetings, dentist Gary Surman, a passionate advocate for fluoridated water, asked the village to reconsider its August 2007 decision to remove it. With no discussion, Trustee Bob LaPietra […]
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Plattsburgh: Group Asks City To Remove Fluoride From Water
Representatives from the Fluoride Action Network asked Plattsburgh city councilors Thursday to take fluoride out of the city drinking water. Network representative Paul Connett said fluoride is to blame for long list of of health problems, and he wants it removed from the water. “Fluoride also has other things like lead in it”, said Connett […]
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Plattsburgh: Fluoride furor
A discussion over the use of fluoride in the City of Plattsburgh’s drinking water turned loud Thursday night. Dr. Paul Connett, an opponent of fluoride in municipal drinking water systems, and Dr. Robert Heins, a local dentist, got into a face-to-face argument in the rotunda of City Hall following Connett’s 45-minute presentation to the Common […]
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Plattsburgh: City councilors will listen to fluoride opponent
City of Plattsburgh councilors will listen to opponents of fluoridated water at a special work session today. Paul Connett of the Fluoride Action Network in St. Lawrence County will speak to councilors at 4 p.m. at City Hall. Connett’s presentation comes a week after councilors heard from local dentists and health officials in support of […]
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Plattsburgh: Don’t let facts get in the way
TO THE EDITOR: This letter is in response to the Jan. 28 editorial “Don’t Halt Fluoridation.” This poorly researched and worded article would be amusing to me if it had not such serious consequences for all denizens of Plattsburgh. After reading it I was reminded of a famous Einstein quote: “Condemnation without investigation is the […]
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Plattsburgh: Local dentists firm in fluoride support
City of Plattsburgh officials heard a strong message Tuesday night from people supporting the fluoridation of drinking water. “I am here to offer you something that can improve your health, is cost-effective and you don’t have to do anything to get it,” Clinton County Health Department Director Paula Calkins-Lacombe said at a special meeting with […]
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Evidence shows fluoridation danger
Currently, I am traveling in Italy giving presentations on waste management. I have been forwarded a copy of your editorial ridiculing any notion that fluoridation could possibly cause any health problem and that practice is extremely effective at reducing tooth decay. I will leave your councilors to judge the quality of the evidence that I […]
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NYC: 2008 cost for hydrofluosilicic acid: $5,145,473.52 for 5 boroughs
Excerpts from 2-page letter, available in pdf format: • Page 1 of letter • Page 2 of letter Letter from: Aspa Capetanakis Technical Assistant to the Chief of Distribution Water Quality Operations BWS Foils Records Officer City of New York Department of Environmental Protection Letter to: Mr. Paul Stephen Beeber Paul Stephen Beeber Law of […]
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Plattsburgh – EDITORIAL: Don’t halt fluoridation
In spite of the entreaties of as respected a public servant as Councilor Amy Valentine, we implore the City of Plattsburgh not to stop fluoridating the water until somebody with more clout than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends it. Valentine and a few others have urged the city to stop putting tooth-decay-preventive […]
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