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  • To Fluoridate Or Not To Fluoridate? Portland Considers The Idea

    Three of five city commissioners have said they’re in favor of adding fluoride to Portland city water. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says fluoride is a safe and healthy way to effectively prevent tooth decay.  But opposition is vocal and intense. The list of organizations that endorse fluoridation is long and authoratative. Think: […]

  • For fluoride, Portland Water Bureau says two years — Randy Leonard says faster

    When Portland Water Bureau officials estimated that it would take at least five years to begin fluoridating local drinking water, Commissioner Randy Leonard pressed them to speed up. Four years? Not quickly enough, Leonard responded. Three? Nope. The Water Bureau went back to its engineers and asked them to squeeze as much as possible. “If […]

  • Portland: Amanda Fritz undecided on fluoride but won’t push for a public vote

    Portland Commissioner Amanda Fritz says she won’t push for a citywide vote on fluoride. When the issue first surfaced publicly in August, Fritz wrote in an email that “it seems that the most prudent course of action may be to support a referral of the issue, rather than Council making the decision.” Fritz, in a […]

  • Portland editorial: Randy Leonard’s aggressive fluoridation schedule deserves council support

    Citizens reportedly inundated the Portland City Council with calls and emails shortly after Commissioner Randy Leonard proposed last week to fluoridate the city’s water by March 1, 2014. That’s a lot sooner than the Portland Water Bureau had said it could get the job done, and it’s a couple of months before Portland residents would […]

  • Portland Commissioner Randy Leonard calls for fluoride by March 2014, two months before opponents want public vote

    City Commissioner Randy Leonard just made the race to fluoridate Portland’s water supply more controversial, if that’s even possible. Leonard on Friday proposed that the Portland Water Bureau implement a fluoridation plan by March 1, 2014, two months before voters could weigh in under an initiative effort that will be launched by opponents. The contentious issue of […]

  • Portland Mayor Sam Adams does not find FAN “a credible source of information”

    I was asked to watch the film “An Inconvenient Tooth.” I take my decision on fluoridation very seriously so I asked my staff and others to provide us answers to the questions raised in the film. The first interview is with Dr. Paul Connett, has been criticized for taking studies out of context and making blatantly false statements. For example, I […]

  • Portland fluoride roundup: Stories, opinions, resources

    Fluoridation is back in the headlines — and how — in Portland. This is an issue that directly affects not only Portland families but also families in Gresham, Tigard and Tualatin, which receive Portland drinking water, as well as families living in more than a dozen water districts and water companies that purchase drinking water […]

  • Portland City Council Schedules September 12 Vote on Fluoridating the Water

    Comedian George Carlin once joked that everybody complains about their local tap water, and nobody brags about it. Not so in Portland. “Portlanders pride themselves on having some of the best drinking water in the world,” said Kim Kaminski, executive director of Oregonians for Safe Drinking Water, a Portland-based nonprofit that opposes adding fluoride to […]

  • Portland’s fluoride debate: Reviewing both sides of the controversy

    Few issues at Portland City Hall have been as polarizing as a pending decision to add fluoride to the local water supply. On one side, there’s a well-organized campaign in support that features dentists, health care providers and a host of community organizations. On the other is a group of volunteers launching an initiative to […]

  • Opponents to launch signature-gathering initiative to block fluoridated water in Portland

    Opponents of the Portland City Council’s fluoridation plan will launch a competing effort Wednesday asking voters in 2014 to ban fluoride from local drinking water. The initiative comes less than a week after a majority of the City Council announced support for adding fluoride to a water supply serving about 900,000 residents in Portland, Gresham, […]