Description: Dukakis gives skeleton of health care bill to legislature. Ways & Means wants to verify costs to make sure it will fit into budget. Marjorie Clapprood, Philip Johnston, Richard Voke.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/02/1988
Description: State Ethics Commission needs to know circumstances behind $250,000 loan/fee received by William Bulger, not fully explained on his financial disclosure statement. Extortion. Harold Brown.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/16/1988
Description: Auto insurance reform bill goes to Senate where it is faulted for rolling reconciliation provision. Rep. Frank Woodward, Sen. John Houston. Senate door.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/21/1988
Description: Frank Keefe announces budget control measures for FY89: limit on construction borrowing and monthly monitoring of state departments' spending. David Locke, Paul Cellucci.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1988
Description: George Keverian, unfeisty House speaker, says he does not allow personal vendettas to obstruct legislature's progress. Empty halls of State House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/24/1988
Description: Chaos on final day of legislative session, trying to pass bills at last minute. Bulger on convention center authority. David Locke and Saundra Graham deplore short shrift given to serious matters.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/05/1988
Description: Departing representatives bid farewell to House on last night of legislative session. Joking at podium.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/23/1988
Description: Farmers rally at State House to protest Question 3, livestock protection referendum proposed by animal rights activists. Photo of mistreated calves. State House interiors, empty House chamber.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1988
Description: Comments on intra-party affiliations, loyalties, issues and the political spectrum from Yankee members of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/16/1988
Description: Mental health advocates try to regain crisis care funding which they say Dukakis administration has withdrawn. Frank Keefe defends budget "reversions" in mental health services.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/02/1988