Description: Rep. David Magnani reluctantly favors proposed tax increases because of dire need for revenue to support state spending programs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1989
Description: State Auditor Joseph DeNucci explains sources of outstanding debt to Massachusetts and urges better enforcement and collection procedures.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1988
Description: Governor Dukakis recommends plan to correct grave state budget deficit. Frank Keefe testifies before House Ways & Means Committee. Rep. Richard Voke.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/14/1988
Description: House Democrats recommend even more drastic cut in local aid than Weld's proposal. Sheila Cheimets of Mass. Municipal Assn. Carmen Buell, John McDonough, Frank Hynes, Charles Flaherty, Thomas Finneran.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/15/1991
Description: Staff cuts announced at Brookline Mental Health Center; therapists weep. Philip Johnston distressed over reduced human services funds. Michael Dukakis, Edward Lashman.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/12/1990
Description: Diagnostic program for mentally ill homeless people is endangered by cut in state funding. Pine Street Inn sign and interior. Zoom in to State House up Park Street hill.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/27/1989
Description: Stephen Kidder says state revenue outlook is worst in decades. Legislature delays on budget and deals with lesser issues. Rep. Lawrence Alexander. Bag of Paxton soil.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/02/1990
Description: Disabled people, some in wheelchairs, protest inside State House against Medicaid cuts. Stephen Tocco makes weak attempt to appease. One woman wields crutch. Red dye thrown on State House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1991
Description: With Santa, Dukakis hands out Christmas gifts to children at a family shelter. Comments on mandate to resolve budget crisis soon.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1989
Description: Disgruntled legislators want to undo governor's vetoes on state spending items and rebalance budget. Hale Champion, Lucile Hicks, John Flood, Michael Creedon. Dukakis walks amid phalanx of aides.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/28/1988