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The Agenda of Destruction: This Week's Installment

by: elwood

Wed Apr 25, 2012 at 20:46:41 PM EDT
Two more items surfaced in the last couple of days. First, Putney points us to the state's impending abandonment of poison control hotlines. If your child gets into the medicine chest, maybe there will be a number in Vermont, or Maine, or Massachusetts to take your call. All the other forty-nine states spring for this service.

Second, the Sentinel reports that the the state is turning off the lights on local roads. More than a hundred street lights in the Monadnock Region will go dark to save money. There's no indication of any study to see whether this is, well, SAFE.

When we get a few poison deaths, and a few fatal car accidents, we'll have more data.

Meanwhile the legislature is working on new ways to cut revenues flowing into the General Fund. The Agenda of Destruction is just getting started.

(The title is probably too optimistic - it's only hump day, after all. Plenty of time left for more damage.)
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The Agenda of Destruction: This Week's Installment | 3 comments
Thank you for highlighting this. (4.00 / 3)
Four years ago I was present when a small child (aged two) accidentally spilled some natural cleaning solution onto her eyes when reaching for the bottle on the counter.

The nature of the ingredients did not immediately alarm us, but the poison control center hotline number was nearby, we called right away, and the operator directed us to take the child immediately to the emergency room as the concentration of a particular ingredient in the solution could be toxic.

It is concerning in the extreme that this life-saving service may no longer be available in New Hampshire.  

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The thanks go to Putney and (gulp) the UL (4.00 / 2)
which covered the story.
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New Hampshire is not a poor state IT IS A CHEAP STATE (4.00 / 2)
no need to add anything here
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