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    Pensacola News Journal
    September 29, 2008

    Escambia County: The issue is 50 years old, but fluoride is back in the news

    By Mark OBrien

    Title of article: Good example, penchant for pensions, a brush with fluoride

    Excerpt:

    The issue is 50 years old, but fluoride is back in the news.

    Joshua Jocelyn, a fluoride opponent, is running for a seat on the ECUA board, which oversees Escambia County's water system. He wants to emulate Elizabeth Campbell, also a political unknown and fluoride opponent, who recently defeated ECUA Chairman Logan Fink.

    "I would like to help her," said Jocelyn, who is challenging another ECUA veteran, Elvin McCorvey.

    History lesson: Pensacola put fluoride in the water in the 1950s but removed it two years later. It wasn't put back in the water until several years ago, after lots of squabbling.

     
     
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