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$2.3 billion state budget deficit

Description: Richard Voke announces projected budget deficit of $2.3 billion. Reps. Reinstein, Miceli, DeFilippi and Barbara Gray at angry Ways & Means hearing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1990

Building the Nineties

Description: Michael Dukakis launches $3 billion construction in Boston with "Building the Nineties" banner. Says high tech contracts make state economy less vulnerable to federal defense cuts. Les Aspin. B-2 Stealth bomber.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/23/1990

City crime

Description: Compilation of clips attesting to prevalence of violent crime on Boston streets. Ray Flynn calls for economic justice and opportunity. Funeral of murder victim.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/26/1991

Dukakis press conference on jobs

Description: Michael Dukakis press conference at State House on low unemployment rate and continued job growth in Massachusetts. Announces very favorable economic prospects for the state. “Good jobs at good wages.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/05/1988

Finance Commission chair

Description: Interview with new Boston Finance Commission (FinCom) chair, lawyer Jeffrey Lambert. His job is to do studies in city finances to save taxpayers money by uncovering inefficiencies and improprieties. He wants to keep his research as apolitical as possible. Three flags fly over City Hall: US, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, City of Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1977

Flynn decries budget cuts

Description: Ray Flynn leads rally in front of State House to protest local aid cuts from FY90 budget. Flynn cuts ribbon at affordable housing in Charlestown.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/14/1989

Fuel assistance shortage

Description: Fuel assistance applicant worried about affording heat. ABCD official says Persian Gulf crisis & state funds reduction worsen situation.Machine processing letters.Beautiful Boston skyline at sunset & at night. Blinking light atop old John Hancock building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/10/1990

Furor over local aid cutbacks

Description: Municipal officials from across Mass. gather at State House to beg legislature to resist Dukakis' FY90 local aid cut. Mayors Ted Mann of Newton, John Bullard of New Bedford.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1989

G. William Miller

Description: G. William Miller, former chair of Federal Reserve Board and recently appointed Secretary of the Treasury, answers questions in Boston on interest rates, money policy, oil prices, recession.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/18/1979

Gov. King's budget address

Description: Gov. Edward King's first budget address for FY80 before joint legislative session in House chamber (Constitutional Convention). Speaker Tom McGee forcefully bangs gavel. Senate President William Bulger announces entrance of the governor and Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill. Rep. Robert Larkin, James Collins, Chester Atkins. Increase in local aid. “The people of Massachusetts do not want and do not deserve an ever expanding, ever more expensive state government. They do deserve and obviously want a government that provides the essential services they need at a price they can afford.” Goals: 1) reduce property taxes and stimulate economic development; 2) provide essential services to those most in need of care; 3) initiate improved management techniques in daily government operations. Man smoking pipe. King refers to high technology social contract (reducing individual taxes to level found in competing industrial states in exchange for job creation).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/01/1979