Search

• Anti-fluoride group collects 43,236 signatures in fight for Portland vote

  Fluoride opponents celebrated Thursday outside Portland City Hall after submitting more than twice as many signatures needed to force a public vote on the city’s controversial plan. Leaders of Clean Water Portland said 43,236 voters signed a petition to block — and refer to the ballot — the city’s Sept. 12 decision approving fluoride. City […]

• Anti-fluoride group will submit more than 35,000 signatures to Portland in ‘confident’ bid to force vote

  An anti-fluoride group said it’s been so successful collecting signatures to block Portland’s controversial fluoride plan that it will turn them in Thursday — a day ahead of schedule and with thousands of signatures to spare. If they succeeded in collecting 19,858 valid signatures from city voters, Portland’s already-approved fluoride plan would come to a […]

• Portland: Fluoridation Opponents Gather More Than 20,000 Signatures

  With a week left before their signature-gathering deadline, fluoridation opponents announced today they’ve already gathered 20,000 signatures toward a ballot referendum that would halt the fluoridation of Portland’s water.  Portland’s city council voted unanimously last month to add fluoride to Portland’s water supply. But a group called Clean Water Portland filed immediately for a referendum that would […]

• Portland: Anti-fluoride group reaches midway point of 30-day period to collect signatures for vote

  Portland’s anti-fluoride group on Thursday reached the midpoint of their 30-day period to collect nearly 20,000 signatures from registered voters and force the issue to the ballot. The group declined to say how many signatures have been collected as part of the referendum effort, but if fundraising is any indicator, fluoride opponents are making progress. […]

• Portland: Fluoride fighters face uphill battle in fight to get issue on ballot

  Portland may be the country’s last large city to fill its cup with fluoridated water, but it’s not the first to draw the angst of residents fearful of the now common practice. The debate between dental health advocates trying to decrease tooth decay and residents leery of exposure to fluoride keeps surfacing, as cities join the fluoridation trend that started more than 60 years ago. As Portlanders take […]

• Clean water advocates file for citizen referendum with goal of giving Portlanders a vote on water fluoridation

  Portland, OR – Immediately following the Portland City Council’s decision to add fluoridation chemicals to Portland’s water, clean water advocates announced plans to launch a citizen referendum that would put the fluoridation question to Portland voters. Referendum paperwork was filed within an hour of the City Council’s vote. The Clean Water Portland PAC at the same time announced […]

• Editorial. Fluoride in Portland: a banner day for public health

  Set aside the boos and the recall threats from a vocal minority. Forget, for a moment, the angry references in public forums over the past month to fascism and forced medication. Wednesday was a great day for Portland. The City Council’s 5-0 vote to add fluoride to Portland’s drinking water will translate, over time, into […]

• ACSH: Fluoridated water finally comes to Portland

  Portland, Oregon, whose residents have long resisted fluoridating city drinking water, will finally be joining the twentieth century in tooth decay prevention. (Yes, fluoridated drinking water became an official policy of the U.S. Public Health Service in 1951.) Just yesterday, the City Council approved a plan to add fluoride to Portland’s water by March of 2014. By […]

• Portland approves fluoridation; opponents vow to keep up fight

  The City Council approved a plan Wednesday to add fluoride to Portland’s water, meaning Oregon’s biggest city is no longer the largest holdout in the U.S. The ordinance calls for city water to be fluoridated by March 2014. Dental experts say fluoride is effective in fighting cavities. Opponents of public fluoridation say it’s unsafe and […]

• Portland. Dentists Throw More Money at Fluoride Vote

  As we enter the final week of the May election cycle, the big money continues to flow into the “yes” side of Measure 26-151, which calls for the fluoridation of Portland’s water supply. Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland reported two contributions totaling $68,000 from the Dentists of Oregon PAC, bringing that group’s total giving to the […]