Description: Mass Fair Share complains to governor about waste disposal policy - current methods (landfill, incineration) environmentally hazardous. Asks for resource recovery and composting. Michael Dukakis.
Description: House bill would increase budget for fighting drug crime with more police & more treatment facilities for addicts. Other bills would stiffen penalties for drug crime.Richard Voke,Paul Kollios,Philip Johnston.
Description: Auditor John Finnegan claims state hires too many consultants. B-roll of meter maids, parking meter. Governor Michael Dukakis, traffic commissioner John Vitagliano.
Description: House Ways and Means chair Thomas Finneran says drastic cuts in state spending are inevitable. He will present very lean budget. Even once untouchable programs such as Medicaid will be vulnerable.
Description: Thomas Finneran says communities must raise taxes through Prop 2 1/2 override to make up for local aid cuts. Weld is happy budget emphasis is on cuts, not taxes. Finneran forebodes state bankruptcy.
Description: Sen. John Houston explains three private sector task forces to examine fiscal problems in management of state government, local aid, and health care funding.