Description: Patricia McGovern endorses service tax because it is progressive tax. James Braude also supports it for revenue raising.Weld wants it repealed to avoid more job losses.Senate Ways+Means Committee in session.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/05/1991
Description: Weld is cool about budget negotiations. Medicaid is major contributor to deficit. Marc Roberts recommends overhauling health care system to contain costs. Rep. John McDonough. Press with Weld.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/29/1991
Description: Interview with the sole beneficiary of a home ownership assistance program likely to be dropped by the state. Interview with another woman of middle income who cannot afford to buy. Lew Finfer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/13/1991
Description: Senate Ways and Means chair Patricia McGovern says hurtful measures must be taken to balance state budget.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/28/1991
Description: Valerie Fletcher, director of Alliance for Mentally Ill, is concerned about placement and treatment of mentally ill persons under the policies of the Weld administration.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/11/1991
Description: Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald remains firm in his belief that new taxes are necessary to provide services and balance the state budget.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/06/1991
Description: James Moseley proposes to revive horse racing at dormant Suffolk Downs. Dog track owner Charles Sarkis also seeks approval for horse racing at Foxboro. Government regulations committee hearing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/13/1991
Description: Although Senate upheld veto of cabinet pay cut, Weld announces he "misjudged" and proposes 5% cut in state salaries over $60,000. Sens. Jane Swift, Nancy Alexander, Locke, McGovern, Bulger.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/08/1991
Description: Blind and deaf teens and other special needs students demonstrate inside the State House for preservation of Chapter 766 education funding in the state budget.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/22/1991
Description: AIDS activists and day care advocates amass on State House steps to demand better funding for their respective causes in the state budget. Larry Kessler.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/24/1991