Daily News Roundup – April 29, 2015
Roxbury Crowd Fears Olympic Displacement (Boston Herald) Roxbury Residents Question Olympic Jobs Promises (Boston Globe) Here are the First Images of What Boston 2024 Plans for Its Legacy (BostInno) T Repair Facilities Pose Challenges to Olympic Stadium (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 Needs to Rethink Its ‘Walkable Games’ Plan (BostInno) Roxbury Residents See Through Boston 2024’s Bullsh*t (Storify) Carr: Filling Olympics Trough Will Be Taxing Endeavor (Boston Herald) #PublicMoney
Daily News Roundup – April 28, 2015
The Motive Driving Olympics Push in Boston (Boston Globe) Michelle Kwan’s 2024 Bid Boost (Boston Herald) Is this satire? U.S. Rep Capuano Blasts Boston 2024’s ‘Lack of Transparency’ (Boston Herald) Boston 2024 Pushes to Keep Docs Secret (Boston Herald) Amendment to Bar Public Funds for Olympics Fails in House (State House News Service) Capuano: Public to Need ‘A Little Proof’ about Any Olympic Cost (Boston Herald) No Boston Olympics Will Host a Second Meeting (BostInno) #Gent
Daily News Roundup – April 26, 2015
What Boston 2024 Handed Over in That Private Meeting (United Independent) Boston’s Olympics Bid Links to the Worst Company in America (Terminalia) Poll Suggests Slight Gain for Olympics Bid (Boston Globe) Article belies the title. Health Justice for Boston April Newsletter (Health Justice for Boston) Boston 2024 Declines to Divulge Fees to PR Firm (Boston Globe) #WidettCircle #ColumbiaPoint #Gentrification #Polling #Inequality #Consultants #PublicRelations
What the Globe Forgot to Tell You about Two of #Boston2024’s New Board Members
A few days ago, Boston 2024 rolled outs its new 30-member board of directors, a mix of (mostly) corporate executives, athletes, and USOC officials. The Globe printed a handy list of all 30 members and a line or two of background information. However, in at least two cases, the Globe gave rather deceptive descriptions. The first is Mo Cowan, who has already been a government relations adviser for Boston 2024 for some time. The Globe describes him as “the former chief of staf
The Ever-Changing and Always Vague Definition of “No Public Funds” for #Boston2024
The latest statewide poll on Boston’s 2024 Summer Olympics bid found Massachusetts residents opposed to the bid by a slim margin of 46% to 43%. When asked if they would support having the city submit a bid “with the requirement that no public money be used for the operation of the Games,” Massachusetts residents chose yes 56% to 37%. The toplines hide some very interesting statewide contrasts. The “no public money” qualifier had significant impact in many regions of the stat
Daily News Roundup – April 24, 2015
If You Build Beach Volleyball, the Next Facebook Will Come (BostInno) Red Sox Executive Larry Lucchino in Talks with Boston 2024 (Boston Globe) Lawrence to Host Meeting to Discuss Boston’s Bid to Land Olympics in 2024 (Eagle Tribune) Boston 2024 Brings on Larry Bird, David Ortiz in Futile Effort (The Telegraph) Andrew Zimbalist on the Economic Implications of a #Boston2024 Olympics (Storify) FPC Creating Olympics Wish-List (JP Gazette) Editorial: The City’s New Smoke-Filled R
Daily News Roundup – April 23, 2015
Keller @ Large: We Want Detailed Boston 2024 Olympics Plan (CBS Local) Championship Pedigree to Join Boston 2024 Board (Boston Globe) Many of whom don’t live in or even near Boston Who’s on the Boston 2024 Board? (Boston Globe) Editorial: Stellar Board, Big Questions (Boston Herald) Low-income Residents Worry about Olympics’ Repercussions (Boston Globe) Small Crowd at Easton Forum Split on Boston 2024 Olympic Bid (The Enterprise) Boston 2024 Olympics Timeline (WGBH News) Broo
Daily News Roundup – April 21, 2015
New Poll Shows the More You Know about Boston 2024, the Less Likely You Are to Support It (Blue Mass Group) Boston 2024: If You Like the Marathon, Ipso Facto, You Want the Olympics (Blue Mass Group) Celebrity Athletes Split on Hub Bid for the Olympics (Boston Herald) What Will Boston’s New Olympics Office Do? (Boston.com) Ludlow Selectman Aaron Saunders Voices ‘Grave Concerns’ about Boston 2024 Olympic Bid (Mass Live) Love at the Finish Line (Boston Herald) Mayor Walsh Helps
Daily News Roundup – April 18, 2015
Half of Boston Residents Don’t Want to Host the 2024 Olympics (ThinkProgress) Boston Olympics Bid Gets Messier All the Time (The Sport Digest) Western New England University Polling Institute Finds Voters Lean Against Boston Olympics Bid (WNE News) Biggest Supporters of Boston Olympics? Poll Says Look to Western Mass (NEPR) Rep: Olympics Backer Must Pay Market Rates for State Billboards (WWLP) Reid: Cities Have Grown Weary of USOC, IOC Games (Orange County Register) #Polling
Daily News Roundup – April 17, 2015
Tepid Local Support Puts Boston’s Olympic Bid in Doubt (USA Today) Brennan: Bail on Boston Olympic Bid, Give it to L.A. (USA Today) Boston 2024’s New Mantra: American Exceptionalism (Boston Globe) Walsh Hires In-House Olympics Analyst (Boston Globe) Imagine, If You Will, the Best Olympics Ever (Boston Globe) State Plans to Select Olympics Consultant Soon (Boston.com) Bostonians Don’t Want the Olympics (Breitbart News) The Boston Olympic Debacle (Grantland) #Polling #LA2024 #U