Description: House considers restructuring speeding fines. State troopers pull over driver. Rep. Michael Morrissey, Thomas White. Traffic on Storrow Drive from behind, overhead, and head on.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/24/1989
Description: Charles Flaherty becomes House speaker. Richard Voke, Byron Rushing, Mark Roosevelt comment. William Bulger returns as Senate president. Michael Barrett, David Locke, and James Jajuga comment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/02/1991
Description: Massachusetts State House interiors. Senate door with sign on transom. House of Representatives door. House chamber empty; wide shot of rows of seats, podium, balcony. Reporter and camera operator discuss shots off camera. Several takes of reporter standup on the new 1979 state congress, specifically the power of Speaker Tom McGee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1978
Description: Dukakis is target of criticism in legislature because of unbalanced state budget. Keverian confident shortfall will be resolved. Steven Pierce, Robert Marsh, William Bulger.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1988
Description: State legislature. John E. Murphy Jr. presiding. Reps. Bruce Wetherbee, Joseph DeNucci, Mary-Louise Kehoe, Michael Creedon, Charles Flaherty, Barbara Gray, Theodore Aleixo, Ellen Canavan, Roger Sparky Goyette, Joan Menard, Thomas Vallely, Speaker Thomas McGee, Royall Switzler.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/10/1984
Description: State legislature. Vincent Piro presiding as speaker. Bruce Wetherbee, Royall Switzler, Nicholas Buglione, Richard Moore, Ways and Means chair Michael Creedon, Charles Flaherty. Banging of gavel sound effect.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/10/1984
Description: Support is rallied for Dukakis' health care for all bill being reshaped in Ways and Means Committee. William Bulger endorses it (ostensibly in exchange for Dukakis' support for his incinerator site).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/27/1987
Description: 1) In State of the City address at JP High Mayor Ray Flynn laments struggling economic health of Boston even as state is booming. 2) Interview with Samuel Tyler of Boston Municipal Research Bureau on city's tenuous finances. 3) Gov. Michael Dukakis signs bill to hasten conversion of abandoned buildings to affordable housing. 4) Reps. William Robinson and David Cohen debate rules reform on late night legislative sessions; Reps. Gregory Sullivan, Lawrence Alexander, Andrew Natsios; Robinson on speaker's platform with George Keverian. 5) Brief on aggressive tactics of anti- abortion protesters, reporting that Joseph Stanton of Citizens for Life denies escalating attacks on clinics, calling protesters “sidewalk counselors.” 6) Interview with Roger Fisher on Geneva arms limitations talks. 7) Felicia Lamport verse on arms talks. Anchors Lydon and Vaillancourt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/07/1985
Description: Reps. Peter Blute, Lida Harkins, Raymond Jordan talk about how re-election campaigns can hinge on tax positions. Alexander Tennant comments on gaining more Republican House seats.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/26/1990
Description: House Ways and Means sends temporary income tax increase to full House for debate. Reps. Voke, Poirier, McGee, Keverian, Pierce, Sen. Bulger.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1989