Description: Chancellor Franklyn Jenifer tells Board of Regents of $50 million state budget cut in higher education. Roger van Winkle, president of Mass. Bay Community College.
Description: Legislature has not met target cuts in its own staff while the administration is supposed to be reducing state payroll. Reps. Frank Hynes, Joan Menard, Peter Forman. Dukakis.
Description: Taking sides in budget crisis are Steven Pierce for cutting programs (no new taxes) & David Cohen for raising taxes to support state services. Richard Voke mediates.John Flood,Judy Meredith,Barbara Anderson.
Description: DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS NOMINATES KEVERIAN AS HOUSE SPEAKER. Joseph DeNucci asks Thomas McGee to withdraw. Chester Atkins shaking hands, running for Congress.