Sen. Warren ‘Really Concerned About’ Olympics Bid (WBUR) In Boston Olympic Bid Vote, More at Stake than Games (NYT) Boston 2024’s International Competition Notices Its Struggles (Boston Magazine) The BRA Wants to Extend Its Urban Renewal Authority (BostInno) Has Marty Walsh Ever Read the Boston 2024 Bid Documents? (Bay State Examiner) John Fish is Boston 2024’s Main Force–And Its Liability (Boston Globe) Historically, Local Voters Don’t Favor Olympics (Boston Globe) Another S

The Boston Globe recently reported that Boston 2024 is trying to address some of its “early mistakes.” However, Boston 2024’s fundamental mistake cannot be corrected: submitting a bid without the consent of the people of Boston. Boston 2024 may have now managed to go a week without telling people to be inspired by Nazi propaganda, but they are not having their much hoped-for media “comeback.” And we need to continue to make sure that they do not. So join us tomorrow at the ne

Boston 2024 Works to Address Early Mistakes (Boston Globe) Keller @ Large: AG Maura Healey on Olympics, Legalizing Pot (CBS Local) Voters Could Decide Boston’s Bid for the 2024 Olympics (The Takeaway) New Foe Joins Fractured Field Fighting Olympic Bid (Boston Herald) We’ve been around since November… Boston 2024 is Doomed: Be Done with It (Wire Sports) #PublicRelations #MauraHealey #BallotQuestion #Activism #LA2024 #USOC

The Boston Olympics Con Job (The Nation) No Boston 2024 in The Nation ** Is the Olympic Opposition Going to Turn? (Boston Globe) NBO’s response Colorado Voices: Why Not Have a Permanent Site for the Olympics? (Denver Post) Editorial: First Up, An Olympics of Public Skepticism on the 2024 Games (Daily Hampshire Gazette) 2024 Olympics Question Would Be Good on November 2016 Ballot, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker Says (Mass Live) What Does No Boston Olympics Think About the Bo

Public Sentiment Shifting on Boston 2024 Olympics Bid (Bay State Banner) Franklin Park Leaders: We Need More Info from Boston 2024 Planners (Dorchester Reporter) Boston 2024, or the Raven Returns (Boston Globe) Zakim Continuing Push for Boston-Only Olympics Ballot Questions, But Sets Conditions for Backing Statewide Question Instead (Universal Hub) Carr: Who Crowned Olympics Cheese King of the State? (Boston Herald) Editorial Cartoon: Boston Olympics Bungling (Boston Globe) L

Does Boston 2024’s spin sound familiar to you? It did to us, too. Check out our new video “Marge vs the Olympics.” #Satire #Media

“Team Walsh” ‘Team Walsh’ Meets in Dorchester to Revive Boston’s Bid for the 2024 Olympics (WGBH News) Team Walsh Rallies Troops for 2024 Push (Dorchester Reporter) Boston Core Boston 2024 Comes to Cambridge (Medium) Brookline Town Meeting to Weigh in on Olympics Bid (Wicked Local – Brookline) Distrust Builds in Cambridge Over Boston 2024 Proposal (Wicked Local – Cambridge) Public Opinion/Referendum Polling Society Students Tackle Clinton, Tsarnev, NFL (Emerson News) Also tac

Yesterday, I attended a talk given by Erin Murphy, Executive Vice President of Boston 2024, and Doug Rubin, the Founding Partner of Northwind Strategies and a co-chair of the Public Relations and Marketing Committee for Boston 2024. The talk–entitled “Urban Sports and the Boston Olympic Bid” was a part of the Spring 2015 Myra Kraft Open Classroom series “The 21st Century City: Challenges and Opportunities” at the Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affai

Boston Really Doesn’t Want to Host the Olympics Anymore (The Week) Did we ever? In a Reversal, Boston 2024 Wants a Vote on the Olympic Bid (NYT) Boston 2024 Faces Tall Task in Securing Venues (Boston Globe) Olympics Referendum Should Ask the Right Question (Boston Globe) Fitzgerald: Don’t Be Bullied into Backing the Olympics (Boston Herald) Editorial: Olympics to the Test (Boston Herald) With Ballot Questions, Money Matters (Boston Globe) Backlash Over Boston’s Olympic Bid Le

Dear friends, Unlike Boston 2024, we don’t have $25,000 on hand to spend on a full page ad in the Boston Globe. But we wanted to share our commitments, principles, and goals with you. *** (1) That our city planning should be done for and by the people, not by unelected CEOs and the IOC (2) That our infrastructure investments should be focused on the needs of those who live and work here, not the needs of the IOC (3) That housing, health care, education, and environmental prot