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.
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.
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.
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.
Description: Military analyst assesses the likely success of economic sanctions against Iraq versus military attack. He concludes US should not initiate war.