Description: Massachusetts State Representatives speak pro and con on gay rights anti-discrimination bill. Reps. Salvatore Dimasi, Roger Goyette, Susan Schur, Philip Travis, Eleanor Myerson, James Miceli, Francis Woodward, Thomas Vallely, Willian Robinson. The debate focuses mainly on discrimination against gay people in the workplace, but also touches on AIDS and gay foster care rights.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/23/1985
Description: GEORGE KEVERIAN MOVES INTO HIS NEW OFFICE as Speaker of the House. Rep. Thomas MCGEE'S FURNITURE IN HALL.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/03/1985
Description: STATE HOUSE INTERIOR, GEORGE KEVERIAN WIELDING GAVEL. MAJORITY LEADER CHARLES FLAHERTY, MINORITY WILLIAM ROBINSON
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/07/1985
Description: HOUSE VOTING ON LOCAL AID. William Flynn, Gregory Sullivan, Charles Mann, Henri Rauschenbach, Richard Voke, Iris Holland, Charles Flaherty.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/08/1985
Description: 1) In State of the City address at JP High Mayor Ray Flynn laments struggling economic health of Boston even as state is booming. 2) Interview with Samuel Tyler of Boston Municipal Research Bureau on city's tenuous finances. 3) Gov. Michael Dukakis signs bill to hasten conversion of abandoned buildings to affordable housing. 4) Reps. William Robinson and David Cohen debate rules reform on late night legislative sessions; Reps. Gregory Sullivan, Lawrence Alexander, Andrew Natsios; Robinson on speaker's platform with George Keverian. 5) Brief on aggressive tactics of anti- abortion protesters, reporting that Joseph Stanton of Citizens for Life denies escalating attacks on clinics, calling protesters “sidewalk counselors.” 6) Interview with Roger Fisher on Geneva arms limitations talks. 7) Felicia Lamport verse on arms talks. Anchors Lydon and Vaillancourt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/07/1985