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$2.3 billion state budget deficit

Description: Richard Voke announces projected budget deficit of $2.3 billion. Reps. Reinstein, Miceli, DeFilippi and Barbara Gray at angry Ways & Means hearing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1990

Analysis of state budget crisis

Description: Dukakis anticipated need for caution in developing budget because of slowed growth of state economy. Hale Champion, Frank Keefe, Stephen Kidder.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/05/1988

Andover merchants

Description: Andover merchants suffer from state of economy. "Closed" signs in store windows. Real estate "for sale" signs. Services leave business district. Commercial streets. Luncheonette, restaurant.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/18/1990

Bedford: how is it faring?

Description: Bedford's budget is in the black, but the town is in a real estate slump. Millipore, Mitre, Digital, Prime high tech signs. For sale signs on ranch houses. Town Hall, church bells, steeple. Entering Bedford sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/02/1990

Bennett Harrison on Mass. economy

Description: MIT economist Bennett Harrison talks about changing Mass. workforce and its dependence on the slowed growth of the state's economy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/12/1988

Blanchette's bright idea

Description: Rep. Kevin Blanchette suggests "escheatage" as source of state revenue; for example, capturing returnable bottle deposits held by store owners when consumers do not collect. Laundromat.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/29/1988

Blue Line expansion

Description: Wonderland Blue Line station in Revere. Train pulls up to platform, passengers get on. Walking tour of Central Square in Lynn, where transit station is proposed as necessary for much needed economic development. Comments from Urban Mass Transportation (UMTA) administrator Theodore Lutz about rapid transit extension.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1980

Bond rating and spending cut

Description: Robert Crane is worried that state bonds will sink to junk rating unless promised spending cuts are implemented. Silber says cuts must be enforced. Deputy treasurer Patrick Sullivan.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1990

Bonds for Medicaid bills

Description: Dukakis announces sale of bonds to pay FY89 Medicaid bills and proposes temporary taxes to retire the debt. Richard Voke, Patricia McGovern.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/27/1989

Borrowing to cover state debt

Description: Frank Keefe announces low July revenues, causing state to borrow $200 million to pay bills and FY89 estimates to be revised. At separate PC, Dukakis presents more optimistic budget outlook.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/02/1988