Description: Under court order, Registry of Motor Vehicles can no longer provide information from drivers' licenses. This creates dilemma for police who require details to make positive identifications. RMV officers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/19/1989
Description: Explainer on where state funds go: human services, corrections, education, highway construction, job training, health care, etc. Per capita spending and increase therein rank above national average.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1989
Description: Interview with ICA director David Ross, discussing the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe whose work is controversial for its erotic and gay subject matter. Discussion of his self-portraiture. Discussion of some members of Congress' attempts to censor the rotating exhibit. Ross argues for freedom of speech.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/16/1989
Description: MIT students build robots at artificial intelligence lab and demonstrate their designs in competition.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/03/1989
Description: Interview with Sen. Paul White on his anti- abortion sentiments. In his office and walking through State House hall with broken arm.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/05/1989
Description: At legislative hearing, anti-abortion lobbyists argue for ban on abortion for purpose of sex selection. Abortion clinic footage. Rep. Marie Parente.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/13/1989
Description: Paul Levy promotes processing sewage into sludge pellets for fertilizer as treatment preferable to incineration. Sludge being shoveled by bulldozer, and on conveyor belt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1989
Description: Tour de Sol solar-powered car race takes place in New England. Oddly designed cars on the road and in "pit stop."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/26/1989
Description: Lobbyists and special interest groups converge in State House corridor to pressure legislators to consider funding their causes when debating budget. Rep. Paul Caron.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1989
Description: Barbara Anderson is outraged at lack of control over spending by state authorities such as MBTA and MWRA. She starts petition to limit their autonomy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/25/1989