Description: Legislative health care committee deliberates on bill to provide health coverage for uninsured.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/27/1987
Description: Legislature considers bill to try juveniles charged with serious crimes as adults. (Adults can be free on bail; juveniles can be detained for own protection.) Edward Kirby, Sal DiMasi, Paul Harold, Peter Morin.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/07/1987
Description: Numerous interest groups lobby legislature on health care for all bill before house vote. Dukakis, Philip Johnston, Catherine Dunham.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/05/1987
Description: TESTIMONY FOR CHILD PROTECTION LEGISLATION. JOHN WALSH, MISSING CHILDREN CRUSADER.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/27/1987
Description: HEARINGS FOR PARENTAL LEAVE BILL. CHILDREN + NEWBORNS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1987
Description: Federal parental leave bill provides for 18 weeks unpaid time off after childbirth. Interest in making Massachusetts policy match length of leave plus adding wage replacement. Rep. Mary Jane Gibson.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/23/1987
Description: Editorial in The Pilot condemns gay rights bill because of threat of AIDS and biblical proscription of homosexuality. Uproar causes postponement of Senate debate.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/09/1987
Description: Poor & disabled people rally at State House to show support for health care for all bill. Michael Dukakis, Patricia McGovern.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/09/1987
Description: Poor prospects for bill to bail out financially ailing Suffolk Downs race track. Sen. Thomas Norton wants to create state racing authority. Thoroughbred horses out of starting gates. Rep. William Galvin. Spectators, binoculars, men reading racing form, betting windows.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/28/1987
Description: Support is rallied for Dukakis' health care for all bill being reshaped in Ways and Means Committee. William Bulger endorses it (ostensibly in exchange for Dukakis' support for his incinerator site).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/27/1987