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• Will Portland City Council push for a fluoride vote in 2013?

  Fluoride proponents are testing the waters at Portland City Hall to see if officials will schedule a public vote sometime in 2013 instead of 2014. Last month, opponents blocked the City Council’s unanimous September decision that would have added fluoride to drinking water reaching roughly 900,000 residents in Portland and the suburbs. The successful referendum […]

• Portland. Fluoridation: Nature Thought of it First

  Over 3,000 studies have demonstrated that fluoridation is safe, effective, and socially equitable, according to the author I have been a general dentist for 36 years, graduating from Northwestern University Dental School in the fluoridated city of Chicago. I practiced in Chicago for 4 years before moving to Portland in 1980. I retired from my […]

• Portland’s Fluoridation Opponents Could Learn a Lot from Fairbanks

  Like it or not, fluoridation is all mixed up in politics. I don’t like it at all, but I don’t always get what I want, as evidenced by Stanford beating the Ducks last Saturday. I also don’t like taking drugs unless I absolutely have to. Fluoride is a drug. It’s not an essential nutrient, like […]

• Editorial: A reason to cheer the Portland fluoride vote

  By collecting enough signatures to force Portland’s fluoridation plan to the May 2014 ballot, a group called Clean Water Portland has guaranteed many months of vigorous debate. Portland residents should be happy about this. Clean Water Portland may be completely wrong about fluoridation, but its push for a public vote is exactly what’s supposed to […]

• Fluoride referendum qualifies for Portland’s May 2014 ballot

  State, county and city officials announced Thursday that Clean Water Portland’s anti-fluoride referendum qualified for the May 2014 ballot with more than 33,000 valid signatures. The group needed about 19,000 signatures to halt Portland’s plans — approved Sept. 12 by the Portland City Council — to add fluoride to the region’s drinking water. But Clean Water […]

• Portland. Poll: City evenly split on putting fluoride in drinking water

  As the debate raged before the Portland City Council’s unanimous vote to fluoridate Portland’s drinking water in September, fluoride opponents had the loudest voices. But the latest KATU news poll conducted by Survey USA finds the fluoride debate has pretty much split voters down the middle. The poll showed that 45 percent of Portland’s registered voters think […]

• Portland officials reject less than 3 percent of fluoride signatures

  The Portland Auditor’s Office has forwarded 42,743 anti-fluoride signatures to the Multnomah County Elections Division for further review, rejecting only about 1,200 signatures or just under 3 percent of the submitted total. That means Clean Water Portland, the group behind the effort to force a public vote on the Portland City Council’s decision Sept. 12 […]

• Portland City Council calendars don’t show meetings reported by fluoride lobbyists

  Fluoride lobbyists met personally with all five members of the Portland City Council in July or August but only one of those initial meetings appears on public calendars — under a vague heading — leaving lingering questions about the effectiveness of the city’s lobbying and reporting requirements. Promoted by then-Commissioner Sam Adams beginning in 2005, […]

• Portland fluoride foes submit signatures ahead of deadline

  Group seeks vote on plan to add chemical to city’s water Opponents of Portland’s plan to add fluoride to the city’s water turned in signature petitions a day ahead of a deadline and with thousands of signatures to spare. Clean Water Portland leader Kim Kaminski said the group submitted more than 43,000 signatures Thursday — […]

• Fluoridation decision is too quick for Portland

  American philosopher John Dewey believed the key to solving societal problems was the “scientific approach.” Aspects include being critical and objective, and drawing conclusions based on the whole of the evidence instead of selectively choosing only the evidence that will support a conclusion already made. The present debate about whether or not to add fluoride […]