Description: Architect and developer L. Duane Jackson laments slow business in Boston, particularly the lack of public funding for developing open lots.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1990
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: 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: Deputy Treasurer Patrick Sullivan and Treasurer Robert Crane feign confidence about Mass. bond sales, though the state's rating has dropped.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1990
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: Lobbyists address Senate Ways and Means Committee pro and con on new taxes and state of the Mass. economy. James Braude, Barbara Anderson, Richard Manley, Howard Foley.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/11/1989
Description: State is overdrawn at Bank of Boston by $190 million because of slow revenues. Frank Keefe and deputy state treasurer Patrick Sullivan explain. Rep. Robert Howarth predicts financial disaster.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/01/1988
Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis on need to reform workers compensation system to alleviate delayed and unfair settlements for injured workers. Endless shelves of files at Industrial Accident Board. State labor secretary Paul Eustace, economic affairs secretary Evelyn Murphy, Rep. Kenneth Lemanski, William McCarthy of AIM. Dukakis talks about status of labor movement, viability of unions, trade issues and protectionism, and state's transitional economy from manufacturing to service and high tech industries. Anchors Harris and Vaillancourt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/02/1985
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: Part of an interview with state auditor Thaddeus Buczko in his office. He discusses how audit reports newly evaluate some key legal obligations of state agencies, such as affirmative action and privacy statutes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/16/1977