Description: Richard Voke, Marjorie Clapprood and Steven Pierce comment pro and con on providing for "special commissions" in the state budget. Charles Flaherty alludes to need for new taxes.
Description: Blind and deaf teens and other special needs students demonstrate inside the State House for preservation of Chapter 766 education funding in the state budget.
Description: Lobbyists and special interest groups converge in State House corridor to pressure legislators to consider funding their causes when debating budget. Rep. Paul Caron.
Description: AIDS activists and day care advocates amass on State House steps to demand better funding for their respective causes in the state budget. Larry Kessler.
Description: Sullivan Day Care Center in Tewksbury mainstreams special needs children with normal children. They all get along fine. "Light talker." Cerebral palsy. Classroom.
Description: Defenders of Spectacle Island hope to protect it as open space rather than turn it into sewage plant. It is already a repository for domestic trash and building debris. Crunchy garbage underfoot. Landfill.
Description: Traffic on Mass. Turnpike in Newton and on Route 128. State police set up radar speed trap. Three troopers stand on shoulder of highway. They pull over car of teenagers who go through their wallets to produce identification.
Description: House considers restructuring speeding fines. State troopers pull over driver. Rep. Michael Morrissey, Thomas White. Traffic on Storrow Drive from behind, overhead, and head on.