[dropcap]B[/dropcap]uda voters have a fairly simple choice on one issue. The wording on the ballot:
FOR/AGAINST Shall the Code of Ordinances of the City of Buda, Texas be amended to adopt an ordinance resuming the use of fluoride additives within the allowable level as recommended and regulated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in the City of Buda municipal potable water supply?
Addition of fluoride to water was introduced in the 1940s, but during the 1950s and ‘60s, it became a cry of conspiracy theorists that it was part of a communist plot. Today’s decryers seem to be of the libertarian persuasion saying that the chemical is used in fertilizers and that the use of fluoride causes health problems in children and also causes cancer.
