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Blue Hill Avenue

Description: Ride along Blue Hill Avenue. Decrepit, boarded up and abandoned storefronts. Many defunct businesses. Vacant lot. Zion Apostolic and Immanuel Pentecostal Churches. Warren Street intersection. Bridge Free Medical Van. Houses on Supple Road. Prince Hall Masonic Lodge. Sign for the Mayor's Office of Housing. Street sweeping vehicle. Mayor Kevin White walks with Julian Bond through neighborhood with press entourage. White answers questions about his candidacy and housing policy decisions as mayor especially involving the Boston Housing Authority, and says urban revitalization will come to reality within 3-5 years but need more federal $$. White and Bond meet local business owners and community members.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1979

Blue Hill Avenue environs

Description: Environs of Blue Hill Avenue and Morton Street in Roxbury. Drive by decrepit boarded up storefronts and abandoned lots. Graffiti and trash abound. Sign "Mayors [sic] Office Public Service of Franklin Field Little City Hall."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Blue Hill Avenue traffic

Description: Sen. Bill Owens comments on dangerous traffic on Blue Hill Avenue. Problems: road used as drag strip, accidents involving stolen cars and drivers leaving scene, speeding, sideswiping, children in harm's way. Wants appropriate criminal category defined between manslaughter and vehicular homicide. Storefronts, youth crossing street. Minister Don Straughter (aka Muhammad) talks about Muslim mission in the community: teaching respect, eschewing alcohol, cleaning up empty lots.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/30/1982

Blue Laws repeal

Description: Press conference on repeal of Blue Laws in Massachusetts to allow retail sales on Sundays. Heads of Chambers of Commerce. Rep. Tim Bassett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1982

Blue Line expansion

Description: Wonderland Blue Line station in Revere. Train pulls up to platform, passengers get on. Walking tour of Central Square in Lynn, where transit station is proposed as necessary for much needed economic development. Comments from Urban Mass Transportation (UMTA) administrator Theodore Lutz about rapid transit extension.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1980

Blue laws

Description: Governor Edward King speaks on lifting blue laws to permit Sunday business. King signs bill that allows businesses to open Sundays, although the law prohibits forcing anyone to work Sundays. King states that this bill will increase job opportunities.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1982

Blueprint 2000

Description: Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy presents Blueprint 2000, economic projections and goals for the next decade. It echoes Dukakis' social and employment policies.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1989

Blute on Boston Common garage

Description: Rep. Peter Blute charges that employee has been embezzling receipts from Boston Common parking garage, run by Convention Center Authority. Entrance to garage with cars.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/13/1990

Board of Regents conflict of interest

Description: Michael Dukakis vs. George Keverian on Regents conflict of interest bill re: James Howell.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/12/1986

Bob Bondurant, ace driver

Description: High performance driver Bob Bondurant takes road tour of Boston, negotiating traffic to demonstrate evasive maneuvers + emergency tactics he learned as Formula One racer. Race track.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/21/1989