Description: What can be done about paltry public education funding in Chelsea, the state's smallest and nearly poorest city? Mayor James Mitchell, Gerard Indelicato. Chelsea City Hall, classroom, triple deckers, Tobin Bridge. Picketing teachers.
Description: Mayor John Brennan, Jr. explains Chelsea's economic plight requiring layoffs of teachers, police, firefighters. Voters failed to override Prop 2 1/2 despite the dire straits. Triple deckers. Tobin Bridge.
Description: Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge seen from Main Street, Chelsea. Two military statues. City Hall exterior with clock tower. Wide of Mystic Bridge spanning water. Pan to Bunker Hill Monument. Zoom in to steel girders of bridge. Power plant with smokestacks. Exterior Chelsea Naval Hospital and Enlisted Men's Club with broken windows. Soldier's Home, marina. Everett LNG tanks. Interview with Robert Kenney about revitalization of Naval Hospital and fire site into housing and amenities.