Description: High default rate impedes progress at Dorchester District Court; one third of defendants fail to appear. Building facade and courtroom. Judge James Dolan.
Description: Housing activists go to Massachusetts House Ways and Means Chairman Thomas Finneran's office to 'evict' him because of his budget proposal. The protesters are arrested. Human service advocates and religious leaders also hold separate protests. The house is debating local aid and tax increases. Rep. Thomas Finneran talks about his budget in the House Chambers. Interviews with Reps. John McDonough and Stanley Rosenberg suggesting new taxes are needed to support services.
Description: Exterior of Loeb Drama Center/American Repertory Theatre with banner for A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill. Exterior of Widener Library with snow.
Description: ABCD honors Andrew Davis for community work. Robert Coard, executive director. Home builders, renovation, hammer and nails, carpentry, construction. Sen. Bob Kerrey. Man wearing hard hat climbs ladder.