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A Mysterious Cavity
SO WHO SPENT big money trying to influence the outcome of our state government races in this past week’s election? Well, the usual suspects, of course: Weyerhaeuser, U S West, the trucking industry, developers, public employees’ unions, the dentists. The dentists? Yes, by gum. Those mild-mannered individuals with their face masks, scrapers, and drills appear […]
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Fluoride gets the brushoff in Spokane
Spokane voters rejected fluoride again. But the effort to fluoridate the city’s water came closer to succeeding than in 1969 or 1984. The latest proposal trails by 1,339 votes with some mail-in ballots still to be counted. Supporters vowed to try again in a future election. Voters who favored fluoride in Tuesday’s election tend to […]
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East Wenatchee Voters Flush Fluoride
EAST WENATCHEE — Voters in the East Wenatchee Water District have rejected efforts to put fluoride in the regional water system. “It was the voters’ choice,” said Dr. Robert Merrill, spokesman for Wenatchee Valley Citizens for Healthy Teeth. “Unless there’s a significant change in what people want, it’s dead for now.” Commissioners in the water […]
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Fluoridation Loses Twice in Washington
Voters in Spokane and East Wenatchee voted against adding fluoride to their drinking water. The fluoridation proposal was rejected in Spokane by 51 percent of the voters and by 53 percent of the voters in East Wenatchee. Spokane also rejected water fluoridation in 1969 and 1984. About 68 percent of Americans drink fluoridated water. Supporters […]
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State Ecology Department hits Kaiser with $388,000 fine
SPOKANE, Wash – Kaiser Aluminum Corp. will appeal a $388,000 fine by the state Department of Ecology for alleged sloppy operation of air pollution-control equipment at its Mead smelter, officials say. Operation and maintenance problems were responsible for more than 800 pounds a day of pollutants escaping from the aluminum smelting plant northeast of Spokane, […]
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East Wenatchee to vote on fluoridation
EAST WENATCHEE — Eastside residents will vote on fluoridation of the regional water system in the Nov. 7 general election. It will be a non-binding, advisory vote. Neither proponents nor opponents are entirely happy. The East Wenatchee Water District’s three commissioners voted unanimously Monday to put the issue on the ballot. Only the district’s 13,000-plus […]
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Spokane pro-fluoride group pays $2 for each signature
Spokane — Hard work and $25,000 guaranteed that Spokane residents will be able to vote on adding fluoride to their water. People for Healthy Teeth delivered 12,742 signatures to City Hall on Tuesday, 50 percent more than state law requires to place an initiative on the ballot. While the city clerk’s office will have to […]
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Dentists push for mandatory fluoridation in Washington
OLYMPIA — A year after voters in Olympia rejected fluoridation of water supplies for the third time, a statewide dental group is at the Capitol, pushing for legislation to make fluoridation mandatory throughout the state. The Washington State Dental Association proposal would require public water systems with more than 1,000 hookups to fluoridate water supplies […]
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