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Small aircraft landing fees

Description: Charter plane pilots and air taxi operators fight high small aircraft landing fees at Logan Airport. Massport wants to cut down traffic. Federal judge is considering equity of fees.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/11/1988

Small business tax status

Description: Small business classification under Subchapter S of state revenue code is revoked. Advantage is lost by many start-up entrepreneurs who had changed status to qualify for 5% tax rate. Stephen Kidder.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/26/1988

Smoking ban and police/fire recruits

Description: Police and fire recruits are forbidden from smoking on or off the job. Law is enacted to lower disease risk (and health benefits payout) for public safety officials. Black firefighter packs equipment on hose truck. Rep. Kevin Blanchette.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/07/1988

Solar car race

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

Southeast Asians in Lowell

Description: Lowell faces major budget deficit in trying to serve large population of Southeast Asian refugees; requests federal assistance. Cambodian immigrant workers in restaurant & grocery. Mayor Richard Howe
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1988

Special interests and budget debate

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

Spending by state authorities

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

State Energy Department

Description: Republicans believe state Energy Department should be eliminated because the crisis that gave rise to it no longer exists. Lucile Hicks, Sharon Pollard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/02/1988

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) David Boeri gets copies of property tax checks paid by St. Botolph Realty Trust and traces the flow of money through the trust, involving Harold Brown, Thomas Finnerty, and inexplicably William Bulger. Attorney Paul Garrity comments. 2) Boeri debriefs on set. 3) Meg Vaillancourt reports on outside income earned by state senators while they are apparently claiming per diem expenses incurred during public service. Sen. Brian Lees and Senate Ethics Committee are not inclined to investigate. 4) Deborah Wang reports on state's effort to stimulate foreign trade with Mass. businesses through Office of International Trade and Investment; Howard Foley of High Technology Council; Gov. Dukakis on increasing exports; Quest Systems develops light emitting compound for medical diagnosis and wants to market outside US. Anchors Lydon and Fields.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/02/1989

TOCN show tape

Description: Before news broadcast: Ted O'Brien advertises WGBH membership; advertisement for "Vietnam: Present Tense" program with Seth Rolbein; James Earl Jones advertises "Long Ago and Far Away" program; 1)Carmen fields reports on revelations on Sen. William Bulger's questionable investment in American Cablesystems Midwest with Harold Brown and Thomas Finnerty. 2) David Boeri debriefing on set on Bulger. 3) Sludge processing at Deer Island treatment plant turns sewage into compost and pelletized fertilizer; Paul Levy of MWRA and Michael Deland of EPA; incinerator in Lynn. 4) History of Spectacle Island in Boston Harbor, now landfill repository. Anchors Lydon and Fields. 5) Report on President George Bush Sr.'s tax campaign and Congressional leaders meeting about budget. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recommends budget restrictions, rather than taxes. 6) New childcare package is political olive branch between political parties. 7) National Urban League report on poverty and income conditions among black people. 8) Execution of serial murderer Ted Bundy in Florida. 9) Pennsylvania native Barbara Harris chosen as first woman bishop in Anglican Communion, ordained by Boston Archdiocese.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1989