Description: Bedford's budget is in the black, but the town is in a real estate slump. Millipore, Mitre, Digital, Prime high tech signs. For sale signs on ranch houses. Town Hall, church bells, steeple. Entering Bedford sign.
Description: No audio. First half runs in black and white, second half in color. Exteriors of Boston City Hall, wide and close shots. People crossing plaza, and going through revolving door at entrance to City Hall. Municipal workers exit building; some carry briefcases.
Description: Boston landmarks: swan boats at Public Garden, Bunker Hill Monument, Old Ironsides, State House, Paul Revere statue, Hancock tower, Faneuil Hall / Quincy Market, Gardner Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, rowers on Charles River, two views of skyline, City Hall plaza, Harvard Yard and Widener Library, Hatch Shell on Esplanade, New England Aquarium.
Description: What can be done about paltry public education funding in Chelsea, the state's smallest and nearly poorest city? Mayor James Mitchell, Gerard Indelicato. Chelsea City Hall, classroom, triple deckers, Tobin Bridge. Picketing teachers.
Description: Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge seen from Main Street, Chelsea. Two military statues. City Hall exterior with clock tower. Wide of Mystic Bridge spanning water. Pan to Bunker Hill Monument. Zoom in to steel girders of bridge. Power plant with smokestacks. Exterior Chelsea Naval Hospital and Enlisted Men's Club with broken windows. Soldier's Home, marina. Everett LNG tanks. Interview with Robert Kenney about revitalization of Naval Hospital and fire site into housing and amenities.
Description: Chelsea Mayor John Brennan Jr. is faced with serious fiscal problem and will have to lay off many city employees and cut services. City Hall, library, fire department, municipal offices.
Description: Exteriors of Haverhill City Hall. Environs of East Woburn neighborhood thought to be affected by hazardous waste contamination from nearby dumps. Sign on building for Housing for the Elderly. Washington Block building. Red ranch house of Anderson family. Children in summer clothes and dogs on residential street. Anderson boy on bicycle.
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.
Description: Decline of United Shoe Machinery plant in Beverly and effect on the workforce. Punching time clock. Factory exteriors. Woman stitching baby shoe. Salem City Hall facade. Manufacturing. Stills of factory workers at lathes, drills, presses.
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Description: Lithuanians yearn for independence from Soviet Union. In Boston, Lithuanians gather at City Hall to proclaim their solidarity and listen to ethnic singing.
Description: Masconomet Regional High students lobby for Prop 2 1/2 override in Topsfield, Boxford, Middleton. Computer classroom. Toddlers on playground. Voters in booths. Houses, church, Town Hall in Boxford.
Description: Office of MOB (Mayor's Older Bostonians) senior citizens support services. Framed photo of Kevin White. Shuttle provides transportation for elderly citizens. Van leaves Allston Brighton Little City Hall, rides along streets. Elderly man pulls grocery cart. Interview with Mr. Nissenbaum who is happy with Mayor White's senior services. Interview with Anne Nissenbaum also endorses White. Interview with Joseph Rothfarb, unhappy that "White has overstaffed his pet projects." Another man says too much crime.
Description: Municipal officials gather at Parker House to complain about "level funding," effectively a cut in local aid. Police carry placards. Peabody mayor Peter Torigian, Rep. Robert Havern, Newton mayor Theodore Mann, Sheila Cheimets. Coffee filling cup from urn. Arlington Town Hall and housing.
Description: David Scondras gives tour of Boston City Hall, pointing out its inefficient design, and unsuitability as place to conduct public business. Twilight Zone music. b-roll of City Hall exterior, plaza.
Description: Snowy exterior Somerville municipal complex with library, city hall, high school. Building under construction next to library. Robbins Library in Arlington. Arlington High School and Lowe Memorial Auditorium.
Description: Interiors of Boston City Hall. Kevin White holds press conference on the Tregor Bill. Exteriors of Boston City Hall from several angles. Kevin White answers questions from the press. He specifically talks about the role of the fire department union in the Tregor Bill negotiations. Interview with man answering further questions on the legal and staffing issues concerning the Tregor Bill.