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  • Fluoride issue makes it to City Ballot in Boulder

    City of Boulder voters will have a chance to decide on a new drinking water additive ordinance in November, and it might force locals to do a little research. The Clean Drinking Water (CDW) initiative, proposed by a group of citizens known as Clean Water Advocates (CWA) of Boulder, would in short prevent “medications” from […]

  • Fluoride fracas afoot in Erie

    ERIE — This town of 16,000 is one of just a few remaining communities in Colorado that doesn’t fluoridate its water supply, but that could change next spring when Erie residents head to the polls. Elected leaders are set to vote tonight on a resolution that would place a water-fluoridation measure on the town’s April […]

  • Wound Up About Fluoride

    A little bit of poison can be good for you. It’s a pretty fundamental tenet of medicine and of life. Just the right amount of aspirin, even wine or beer, can extend your life; too much and you’re on your way to detox. The old axiom of excess and moderation is also the basis of […]

  • Aspen City Council hears pros and cons of fluoridating water

    ASPEN — The City Council on Tuesday heard dissenting opinions from both professionals and community members as to whether Aspen should continue to add fluoride into its water supply. Currently, the city of Aspen adds fluoride to the natural amount already in the water supply to achieve a level of 1 to 1.1 milligrams of […]

  • Erie Votes Down Fluoridation

    Dear All, Vonalda Utterback has sent us the good news from a recent issue of the Daily Camera that the town trustees of Erie, Colorado have voted down fluoridation for now. Hopefully, this result in Erie, Colorado will be a good omen for the folks who are currently trying to keep fluoride out of Erie, […]

  • Palo Alto’s 49 years of fluoridation going to the voters

    Palo Alto Citizens for Safe Drinking Water announced today that a Certificate of Sufficiency of the Initiative Petition was received from the City Clerk’s office on Friday, May 23. The Certificate verifies that the more than 3000 signatures filed on May 15 contained valid signatures in excess of the 2194 necessary to place the Palo […]

  • The Fluoride Hazardous Waste Sales Force Is Back

    The same group of fluoride salesmen that unsuccessfully fought a 1999 vote of Santa Cruz citizens to establish an ordinance that prohibits the addition of any substance to the public water supply that is intended to treat humans rather than the water are back in Santa Cruz, and heading for Watsonville, and maybe other communities […]

  • The battle over fluoride in Monterey

    Fluoridation in Monterey County has a contentious past, a low-key present and a future that will be active but uncertain, those on both sides of the divisive issue said. “We’re probably two to three years away from being able to bring a proposal forward,” said Wayne Green, assistant to Salinas’ city manager. Generating plans, getting […]

  • Better safe than sorry

    SAN FRANCISCO is poised to become the first city in the nation to adopt the Precautionary Principle — a new policy framework widely used in western and northern European countries for developing laws that protect our health and environment. For years, Bay Area leaders from the breast cancer, public health, environmental health and environmental justice […]

  • Why Palo Alto Should Stop Fluoridation

    As the daughter of a dentist, I grew up with confidence in fluoride. After bouts with cancer and osteoporosis, however, I learned to scrutinize health claims more closely. When I discovered that our water fluoridation product is not natural calcium fluoride, but rather synthetic, non-toxicologically tested, non-FDA approved, non-pharmaceutical grade sodium fluorosilicate, which carries a […]