Description: Commentary on the media's effect on John Silber's controversial language.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1990
Description: Elderly people and nursing home workers mob the State House halls in a rally to protest Medicaid cuts. Reps. McNeil, Sen. Houston. Keverian assures crowd of continued SSI benefits.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/06/1990
Description: Students arrive at Boston University for first day of medical school. They discuss high tuition and managing the resultant debt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/30/1990
Description: Meetinghouse Hill is ethnically mixed Dorchester neighborhood. Bowdoin Street storefronts represent diverse population. Residents are apprehensive about street safety after recent murder. Men play dominos.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1990
Description: Interview with author Melanie Thernstrom on her book "The Dead Girl" about her best friend who was murdered by boyfriend at Berkeley.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/16/1990
Description: Mentally ill persons march to State House in rain to protest elimination of funds that support day treatment programs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1990
Description: Mental patients and their therapists demonstrate for continued funding of East Boston - Winthrop Counseling Centers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1990
Description: House proposes increase in income tax rather than sales tax. POS on tax preference. Michael Dukakis explains advantage of out-of-staters crossing border to make purchases with lower sales tax.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/11/1990
Description: Two patients at Metropolitan State are ready to go out on their own, but cannot get out of the mental hospital. They sue the state to end their confinement while awaiting group homes. Henry Tomes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/25/1990
Description: Military analyst assesses the likely success of economic sanctions against Iraq versus military attack. He concludes US should not initiate war.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1990