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• Healdsburg sued over ballot description of fluoride ban

  Fluoride opponents have filed a lawsuit against Healdsburg over the language of a November ballot initiative that asks voters to weigh in on the use of the additive in the city’s water supply. The lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to force the city to duplicate the language of the petitions that were circulated to place the […]

• Auckland: No consultation needed for stopping or starting fluoridation

  Chair of Auckland Council’s Policy and Strategy committee decided unilaterally yesterday that a petition from Fluoride Free New Zealand could be received but not debated on. This left councillors no option other than to vote to accept the petition or not. The petition to Council was over the illegal fluoridation of some Franklin communities. In […]

• Healdsburg voters likely to face a slew of local ballot issues

  This fall, Healdsburg voters are expected to have plenty to ponder on their ballots. On Monday, the City Council is poised to place three issues on the November ballot, including asking voters to scrap the limit on the number of new homes that can be built annually; increase the hotel bed tax to help pay […]

• Anti-Fluoride Activists Rally to ‘Get the F out of Dallas’

  The fight to remove fluoride from public drinking water is gaining momentum in Dallas, Texas, where activists are working hard to boost awareness of the issue ahead of a major City Council vote. One campaign in particular aims to educate the citizens of Dallas to the dangers of fluoride through an informative and well-produced public […]

• Fluoride in water increases risk of thyroid illness ‘by 30 per cent’

  FLUORIDATION of water supplies is linked to a 30 per cent higher than expected rate of underactive thyroid complaints in England, a study claims today. The findings have prompted researchers to call for a rethink of public health policy to fluoridate water supplies to improve dental health. In England, around 10 per cent of the […]

• Southwestern Vermont Medical Center comes out pro-fluoride

  BENNINGTON — The local health care system, which runs the hospital, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, has taken a position on the controversial fluoride question that Bennington voters will face in March. A news release, sent Tuesday, said officials at Southwestern Vermont Health Care would consider “recommendations of their health care providers when participating in the […]

• Fayette County Commission: Let us vote on fluoride in our water

  As reported in The Citizen in mid-December, the Fayette County Commission by a unanimous vote adopted a resolution that asked Fayette’s legislative delegation to advocate for amending state law from the 1980s that requires a petition signed by 10 percent of the voters from the previous election to trigger a local referendum on water fluoridation. […]

• Cranbrook: Fluoride issue not just going away yet

  Cranbrook’s fluoride question is not going away, despite the recent referendum. Jason Zimmer, representing a group calling themselves Citizens of Cranbrook Opposed to Fluoride, says they want to find out from the City of Cranbrook what type of fluoride is being added to the water supply, that they feel there are less expensive options available […]

• Gloucester: Fluoride city talks on tap for council

  Eliminating fluoride from Gloucester’s drinking water is the aim, and getting the City Council to support the measure is the game, according to those who are against having the substance in the city’s drinking supply. The push for removing Gloucester from the list of those cities and towns that provide communitywide fluoridation of the public […]

• Meadville’s fluoridation debate could flare up later this summe

  Putting fluoride in Meadville’s water supply has been a topic which has been debated off and on for more than 60 years. Discussion in front of the board that decides Meadville water supply’s fluoride fate could return as early as August. Fluoride is a hot button topic because talks of adding it to the city’s […]