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• Marching Fourth for Clean Water In Portland

  Alberta Street saw upwards of 700 clean water lovers take to the streets Thursday in opposition to fluoridation chemicals being added to fresh Bull Run tap water.  The heated campaigns for and against fluoridation have been waging an all out war, though the pro-fluoride side has received far greater big-money donations from large business interests. […]

• Portland: Water Bureau has spent $153,000 on fluoride plan

  Even though Portland voters temporarily halted the city’s plan to add fluoride to drinking water, that didn’t stop the city from spending money on the project. Last year, the Portland Water Bureau spent $153,000 on the city’s since-halted plan, which would add fluoride to drinking water serving about 900,000 people in Portland and select suburbs. […]

• 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 […]

• Portland: Job Announcements for Pro-Fluoridation Group

  Note from FAN The jobs described below are designed to get the May 2013 fluoridation referendum passed.  Clean Water Portland, without the big money of the fluoridationists, desperately needs residents and volunteers to work for the public interest to block this referendum. The Everyone Deserves Healthy Teeth Coalition supports water fluoridation for the city of […]

• Portland Commissioner Dan Saltzman mum on fluoride stance

  Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman on Friday remained silent about his stance on fluoride. Saltzman is the only member of the Portland City Council who hasn’t weighed in with a public hearing looming Thursday and a vote scheduled Sept. 12. Already, Mayor Sam Adams and Commissioners Randy Leonard and Nick Fish have said they’ll vote […]

• 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 […]

• ‘Trust us, we’re experts’ flops at Portland fluoridation debate

  An overflow crowd of Portlanders displayed their independent streak by challenging the ‘experts’ at the city council session dubbed ‘the great fluoridation debate.’ After the guest speakers, mostly medical professionals and doctors, presented the ‘party line’ – Oregon’s children’s teeth are rotting and the best way to fix it is water fluoridation – opponents presented […]

• More than 275 people turn out for lengthy fluoride debate at Portland City Hall

  The Great Fluoride Debate of 2012 finally hit Portland on Thursday, with more than 275 people piling into City Hall to argue their case or simply listen to the occasional back-and-forth banter. With approval already certain — a majority of the Portland City Council says it will vote next Wednesday in favor of fluoridating local […]

• Portland City Hall braces for crowds as fluoride hearing nears

  The Portland City Council is scheduled to hear Commissioner Randy Leonard’s fluoride proposal at 2 p.m. Thursday. But security guards and other City Hall staffers were busy Thursday morning preparing for crowds that could rival those at public meetings for other controversial topics, including the 2009 hearing to rename 39th Avenue for Cesar Chavez and […]

• Suburban leaders frustrated about being left out of fluoride process: Portland City Hall roundup

  Portland’s plan to add fluoride to a water supply serving more than 900,000 Oregonian’s has rankled some suburban city leaders who were left out. Gresham Mayor Shane Bemis and Tualatin Mayor Lou Ogden have written letters to Portland criticizing the City Council for deciding to fluoridate water without first consulting wholesale customers. Beyond serving city […]