Description: Because of budget problems, many state workers will be laid off. Barbara Anderson says workforce is too big. Philip Johnston defends efficiency of social services departments.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1989
Description: Indoor skateboard rink in Cambridge. Teen and younger boys practice maneuvers on ramps, slides, tubes and half-pipes. Caution signs advise on technique and warn about injuries. Boys wear helmets, gloves, elbow and knee pads.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/01/1978
Description: Jack Borden's sky awareness project encourages students to look up, literally and figuratively, to wonder and think. Teachers claim it foster children's curiosity. Blue sky.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1988
Description: Mid America Conservative Political Action Committee (MACPAC) organized conservative callers to talk radio programs to falsely accuse US Senate candidate John Kerry of being a Communist or “Viet Cong sympathizer” because of his leadership in Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Peter Meade, David Brudnoy, Jerry Williams. Globe reports opponent Ray Shamie belonged to John Birch Society. Kerry says he has been slandered in the campaign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/23/1984
Description: Architect and developer L. Duane Jackson laments slow business in Boston, particularly the lack of public funding for developing open lots.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1990
Description: Paul Levy promotes processing sewage into sludge pellets for fertilizer as treatment preferable to incineration. Sludge being shoveled by bulldozer, and on conveyor belt.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1989
Description: Charter plane pilots and air taxi operators fight high small aircraft landing fees at Logan Airport. Massport wants to cut down traffic. Federal judge is considering equity of fees.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/11/1988
Description: Small airlines at Logan Airport. Passengers waiting at Piedmont terminal. American Airlines planes cross on wet tarmac. Piedmont plane parked. Signs for Braniff, Lufthansa, Iberia, Northwest Orient, Van Dusen Aviation, Butler Aviation, Swissair. Braniff terminal. Northwest Orient and National ticket counters and gate area.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/02/1979
Description: Small business classification under Subchapter S of state revenue code is revoked. Advantage is lost by many start-up entrepreneurs who had changed status to qualify for 5% tax rate. Stephen Kidder.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/26/1988
Description: MassPort plans to raise landing fees at Logan, posing a burden on small aircraft. Business lobbyists fight proposal. Ray Flynn & area residents happy about improved safety.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1988