Description: What cutbacks has Proposition 2 1/2 wrought in Brookline? Residents wonder if town services can bear reduced revenues. Police station, cruiser, fire engine,dump, kids in swimming pool, Coolidge Corner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/18/1988
Description: George Keverian and William Bulger decline to explain the mechanics of balancing the state budget. Reps. Richard Voke, Steven Pierce, Kenneth Lemanski speak inscrutably on the subject.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1988
Description: Frank Keefe & Rep. Steven Pierce explain problem of balancing budget in terms of revenue stream vs. spending programs. Illustrated symbolically by water filling & draining from cooler,dripping f/ hose.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/08/1988
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
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
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
Description: William Bulger's lawyer attempts to explain away questions about his client's loan from Harold Brown. Brown's lawyer wants Bulger's financial records.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/20/1988
Description: Explanation of sequence of questionable events in William Bulger's receiving $250,000 mediation fee in development deal with Harold Brown. Mediators say that sum is outrageous. Extortion.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/16/1988
Description: South Boston residents support Bulger in his reelection campaign because "he takes care of those at home first." Lobbyists such as Judy Meredith & institutions (the Globe) also endorse him.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/12/1988
Description: Propriety is questioned in dealings between developer Harold Brown and William Bulger and their associates in the construction of 75 State Street because large sums of money changed hands.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/08/1988