Description: As many as 25,000 Cambodians, Laotians, and Vietnamese make up Southeast Asian community in Lowell. Mayor Richard Howe tells how this burdens schools & services. Cambodian newscast on cable tv.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/07/1991
Description: Lowell faces major budget deficit in trying to serve large population of Southeast Asian refugees; requests federal assistance. Cambodian immigrant workers in restaurant & grocery. Mayor Richard Howe
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1988
Description: Beeping sound throughout the video. Southeast Expressway, cars, signs generic. Shots of Boston buildings across the expressway. View of harbor and buildings from a tall building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1976
Description: On-ramp to Southeast Expressway. Snow piled high on road shoulders. Heavy traffic. Tracking view of taillights. MBTA snow plow on tracks at Columbia red line station. Full moon - a glowing yellow sphere against grayish sky framed amid bare tree branches. Four lanes of oncoming traffic at dusk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1978
Description: Southwest Corridor Project. Roxbury, Orange Line construction.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1981
Description: Audio goes in and out. Some video deterioration. MBTA southwest corridor construction site for orange line relocation. Urban Mass Transportation Project sign. Gov. Edward King gets out of car, shakes hands with bystanders. Secretary of Transportation James Carlin introduces King who talks about economic vitality created by largest construction project in Boston history. Signs bill transferring land from MDC. Governor King responds to question on extending Logan runways, and the actions of the board of the Massachusetts Port Authority and the executive director of Logan International Airport.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1982
Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis, Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill, MBTA chair Robert Kiley, transportation secretary Fred Salvucci, state Sen. Joe Timilty at groundbreaking for southwest corridor subway tunnel. Rev. Bradford Bryant gives benediction. Dick Buck, senior member of MBTA board. Some attendees wear hard hats with Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. logo. Ted Landsmark talks about minority contractor involvement, economic development, neighborhood input. Col. Warren Higgins lists all construction and engineering participants. Kiley reads message from Sen. Edward Brooke (who is away at Hubert Humphrey's funeral). Salvucci intros Dukakis to speak about priority of mass transit over highway funding. He invokes HHH and MLK (on birthday). Dukakis poised to throw lever to operate pile driver inaugurating project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1978
Description: Three interviews on southwest corridor mass transit and development project. Areas affected include the South End, Roxbury Crossing, and Jamaica Plain. Construction will create numerous jobs and have an affirmative action goal with a 30% minority set-aside. $391 million (80% federal funds) will be for orange line and railroad relocation; plus an arterial street, community college, housing, and industrial park will make for at least a half billion dollar project. Residents are concerned about impact of noise and disruption in the adjacent neighborhoods, equitable employment opportunities, and environmental issues. Community groups want to be sure the new road and transit routes do not split the surrounding areas along socioeconomic lines.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/15/1976
Description: Administrators of substance abuse treatment units complain that reimbursement system is not addressed by universal health care bill. Southwood Community Hospital inside+out.Patient being x-rayed
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/14/1988
Description: Exiled Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky recalls recent trip to deteriorating Moscow. Says reform is not possible without workers' strike, and Yeltsin will emerge in forefront.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/29/1991