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Abortion amendment stalemate

Description: Via parliamentary tactics in the Constitutional Convention, opponents delay voting on abortion amendment. Charles Flaherty and William Bulger on Speaker's podium.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/27/1990

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Description: STRUCTURAL DETERIORATION OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. WILLIAM BULGER WANTS FUNDS FOR BPL RESTORATION. ARTHUR CURLEY.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/25/1987

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Description: STRUCTURAL DETERIORATION OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. ARTHUR CURLEY AND WILLIAM BULGER URGE BPL RESTORATION. ARCHIVAL VISUALS OF COPLEY SQUARE.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/24/1987

BPL funding

Description: Mayor Ray Flynn proposes million-dollar cut in Boston Public Library funds. Flynn cites funding used for new positions, fringe benefits, and unnecessary accouterments instead of library services. Library representative speaks in BPL courtyard about the effect of cutbacks. Footage of employees working at circulation and card catalog. Brief clip of Congressman William Bulger in court. Various Library representatives explain job functions and loss at BPL. Flynn explains that library fund must be focused on branch services instead of fringe benefits.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/27/1989

Boston Housing Authority

Description: Retrospective of fifty years of the Boston Housing Authority, the largest landlord in the city, and one of the largest such agencies in the country. 50th anniversary ball at Park Plaza Hotel; guests include Doris Bunte, Edward Brooke, Byron Rushing, Michael Dukakis, Mel King, Ray Flynn, Bruce Bolling, William Bulger, Harry Spence. Interviews on BHA history include Lewis Weinstein, Joseph Slavet, Paul Garrity, Peter Dreier. Scenes of squalor inside housing projects. Many families remain residents for generations. Tenants' class action suit led by Armando Perez. On the need for racial integration, Doris Bunte says “separate always means separate and unequal.” Scenes of the city's subsidized developments in varying degrees of neglect or renovation. Examples of the breadth and density of the projects. Archival film and stills. Compiled from five-part series from 11/1986. ,Harris
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/01/1987

Bulger & Flynn on incinerator site

Description: Ray Flynn is confronted by William Bulger at press conference on controversial South Bay site for proposed incinerator.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1987

Bulger and Boston Garden

Description: Conflict of development rights for transportation+ construction of new arena in Boston. Dukakis+Bulger claim to be working toward solution; Flynn skeptical. Bruins on ice. Amtrak train pulls into North Station.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1988

Bulger and cable partnership

Description: With funds apparently acquired through Harold Brown development deal, William Bulger bought into limited partnership in American Cablesystems Midwest. At UMass Boston, Bulger declines to explain his investment until “the appropriate time.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1989

Bulger and new arena

Description: Republican Party and Mayor Flynn are concerned that William Bulger wields too much power in conflict between transportation bond issue and development of new arena. Clip of Bruins game.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/01/1988

Bulger and open enrollment

Description: Bulger proposes open enrollment in public schools, wherein parents choose where to send children, regardless of residency. Paleologos questions validity, fearing it gives up on Boston schools.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/25/1988