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New Jersey children receive the country’s worst dental care, according to study
New Jersey provides the country’s worst dental health care for children, according to a report released by the Pew Center on the States. “The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children“ shows New Jersey meeting one of eight benchmarks – Medicaid payments to dentists, even though less than a third of […]
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Perth Amboy’s water supply measures up
I am writing to correct some factual inaccuracies about the city of Perth Amboy water supply presented in an op-ed piece entitled “Fluoridation Would Help Water Quality” published Dec. 19. The article stated, “elected politicians sold off the Perth Amboy municipal water company and then stopped fluoridating the water and other actions that led to […]
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Grubin: Don’t force fluoridation in our water
THE PASSAIC Valley Water Commission is adamantly opposed to proposed state legislation A3709 that would mandate fluoridation in water systems. This ill-conceived proposal would impose involuntary medication, remove the right of local communities to decide whether they want fluoridation, prove costly to utilities and consumers alike, and add no benefits in terms of safer consumption […]
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Roadblock in effort to fluoridate N.J. Water
TRENTON – An effort by New Jersey lawmakers to require the fluoridation of public drinking water throughout the state has run into a formidable foe: the troubled economy. A bill to mandate fluoride in community drinking water cleared the Senate health committee last week, but the chairwoman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, Nellie Pou (D., […]
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Mandatory water fluoridation bill approved by Senate Health Committee
TRENTON – The Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee today voted 6-0-3 to approve a bill to require the fluoridation of all public community water systems in New Jersey. Sponsored by Senator Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex) and Sen. Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen), the bill (S2856) would require the Commissioner of Environmental Protection, in conjunction with […]
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Roiling The Waters
A bill to mandate fluoride in New Jersey’s public water supply has pitted some natural allies against each other. Can dentists, environmentalists, and other groups resolve their differences? In New Jersey Dental School’s pediatric clinic in Newark, Dr. Nanci S. Tofsky and her students peer into the mouths of very young children whose teeth are […]
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Trenton resumes adding fluoride to water
TRENTON — The fluoride is flowing once again. Almost six weeks after two Lawrence councilmen angrily complained that Trenton Water Works never notified customers it had stopped adding fluoride to drinking water supplies, the city said fluoridation resumed this week. “On Tuesday, April 14th, the water utility returned to its practice of adding one milligram […]
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Fluoride foul-up angers councilmen
Trenton’s water utility has come under fire from two Lawrence councilmen, but not because of the proposed sale of the township’s city-owned water pipes. Rather, councilmen Rick Miller and Bob Bostock said they’re outraged that Trenton Water Works never notified its 40,000 suburban customers that in August it stopped adding flouride [sic: fluoride] to its […]
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Fluoridian slip: Head put ‘thousands of people’ in jeopardy
Trenton Water Works Superintendent Joseph McIntyre and other city officials were blasted yesterday for keeping suburban leaders in the dark about not putting fluoride in the water since August. “Their gross negligence disregarded the health concerns of hundreds of thousands of people. They put everybody in jeopardy,” said Rick Miller, a Lawrence council member. “Trenton […]
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Give public access to Statehouse floor
Assemblyman Jon Bramnick, R-Union, is catching flak from fellow lawmakers because he had the audacity to think regular folks should have an opportunity to talk to legislators from the floor of the Legislature. Next thing you know Bramnick will be asking that taxpayers have the same direct access to lawmakers as well-heeled lobbyists do. Bramnick […]
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