Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis press conference on plans to depress Central Artery and chance of obtaining 90% federal highway funds for the $2.2 billion project. Explains master plan and impact on neighborhoods with maps and renderings. Attorney General Francis Bellotti.
Description: Inside plastics factory in Leominster. Brushes, molded bottle caps and other parts being stamped out on assembly line. Industrial noise. Young workers put together components of red plastic jugs with handles and spouts, label and pack finished product. Woman separates, trims and packs pink hairbrushes.
Description: Municipal officials gather at Parker House to complain about "level funding," effectively a cut in local aid. Police carry placards. Peabody mayor Peter Torigian, Rep. Robert Havern, Newton mayor Theodore Mann, Sheila Cheimets. Coffee filling cup from urn. Arlington Town Hall and housing.
Description: UMass Boston staff and students march to State House to protest budget cuts at the school. Placards, chanting. Facade of downtown campus building. David Knapp.
Description: Inmates at Norfolk County House of Correction read their poetry. Prof. Elizabeth Barker of BU has run poetry readings within the prison for twenty years.