Description: Legislative leaders hint strongly at necessity of new taxes to solve the fiscal crisis. Keverian, Voke, Lashman. Bulger walks with Pat McGovern.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1989
Description: Legislators ponder new taxes to reduce the budget deficit. Some say spending cuts must occur first. Door to Speaker's office. Reps. Cerasoli, Flaherty, Havern, Mara, Businger, Woodward.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/30/1989
Description: Legislators consider the necessity of cutting state spending to reduce the deficit. Reps. Kenneth Lemanksi, James Brett, Nicholas Paleologos, Charles Flaherty.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1989
Description: Silent procession up State House steps to protest massive funding cuts in mental health programs. Mock funeral in St. Paul's Cathedral for endangered human services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1989
Description: In House, Democrats lean toward spending cuts to solve the budget deficit without new taxes. Republicans are willing to rearrange program cuts to spare most vulnerable. Keverian, Voke, Pierce, Locke.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/02/1989
Description: Republican legislative leaders David Locke and Steven Pierce propose budget cuts in many areas to eliminate deficit. Keverian bangs gavel at speaker's rostrum.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/15/1989
Description: Task force on state fiscal crisis recommends increased sales tax with broader base, and gasoline tax dedicated to infrastructure improvement.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/18/1989
Description: Dukakis, Keverian, Bulger hold "summit" to solve the budget - deficit - taxes problem. Bulger says "revenue raising is inescapable." They reveal little.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/22/1989
Description: Richard Voke and Michael Dukakis become adversaries in budget fight, unable to agree on what to cut. Rep. Eleanor Myerson.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/29/1989
Description: Richard Voke presents his way to save the budget; includes many categories of cuts and methods of capturing and creating non-tax revenues. Rep. Carmen Buell.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/06/1989