Description: Families of mentally ill people plead at public hearing for Danvers State to remain open. Patients in vocational workshop. Hospital buildings and grounds. David Forsberg says institutional funds must be cut.
Description: Governor Dukakis recommends plan to correct grave state budget deficit. Frank Keefe testifies before House Ways & Means Committee. Rep. Richard Voke.
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.
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.