Weekend News Roundup - May 30/31, 2015
Details Covered in Boston's 2024 Olympic Bid May Put It in Jeopardy (NYT) Boston 2024 CEO: Nothing 'Nefarious' about Secret Plans (Boston.com) Then why hide them? High-Profile Report on Boston Olympics Skipped Potential Fallout for Local Charities (BBJ) Week in Review: Boston 2024, MBTA, Public Records, and More Missing from BPL (Radio Boston) How Boston 2024 Documents Went Public (CommonWealth) #Charities #BidBook
Daily News Roundup - May 29, 2015
On the Bid Book Revelations: Boston 2024 'Bid Book,' Obtained by Journalists, Reveals Need for Public Money (Radio Boston) Bond Experts: Boston 2024 Financing Plan Contradicts Vow to Avoid Public Funds (Boston Business Journal) Fiscal Transparency Pledge Left out of Olympics Bid Document, Report Says (Boston Globe) Report: Boston 2024 Will Need Public Money (WEEI) What is "is" in Olympicspeak? (CommonWealth) The Lying Liars at Boston 2024 Have Been Caught in Their Olympic-Siz
Daily News Roundup - May 28, 2015
The big news from yesterday was that Boston Magazine and the Boston Business Journal, via a FOIA on UMass Boston, were able to get access to unredacted bid documents. And surprise, surprise: Boston 2024 plans to use public money for its venues. Here's the Bid Book Boston 2024 Submitted to the USOC (Boston Magazine) Newly Released Boston 2024 Documents Provide Look at Stadium Plan (Boston.com) BBJ Report: Boston Bid Book (NECN) Boston 2024 Bid Exposed (NECN) Boston 2024's Prop
Daily News Roundup - May 27, 2015
Brookline Town Meeting to Vote on Opposing Olympics Bid (Boston Globe) Long-Awaited Postal Service Move Remains on Hold Despite Olympics Push (Boston Globe) Former Atlanta Mayor Says Olympics Were a Boon to the City (WBUR) Wonder what the 30,000 people who were displaced would say..... Stoughton Resident Urges Selectmen Not to Use Taxpayer Dollars for Olympics (Wicked Local - Stoughton) And in other mega-event news.... FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Sepp Blatt
Daily News Roundup - May 26, 2015
The pushback against Shirley Leung's disaster of a column continues... Don't Tell Us What 'We' Think, Globe (Boston Globe) Shakespearen Taunting Does Not Advance Olympic Debate (Boston Globe) Shirley's Normal: Columnist Completely Misses the Mark...Again (Dig Boston) Dear USOC: Pay No Attention to Shirley Leung (Boston Globe) Calling Critics Children is Childish (Boston Globe) And some lessons from Brazil.... Empty World Cup Stadiums a Warning for Boston (Boston Globe) 'Olymp
Daily News Roundup - May 24, 2015
Circus Maximus by Andrew Zimbalist - an Olympic-sized rip-off (Guardian) Man Who Called Woman Concerned About Impact of Boston Olympics, "A F*cking Piece of Sh*t" Turns out to Be Mayor's Cousin (Alternet) Editorial: JP Talk (JP Gazette) Baker Cool on Boston 2024 Shuffle: "Show Me the Plan" (Boston Herald) Fitzgerald: Problem with Boston 2024 Isn't the Salesman; It's the Product (Boston Herald)
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Daily News Roundup – May 22, 2015
Dear USOC, Nah, We Really Don’t Want the Olympics (Boston.com) US Delegation to Visit IOC Next Week for Talks on Boston Bid (Fox Sports) How Things Went Wrong for Boston’s Olympic Leader John Fish (Boston.com) Boston 2024’s Got a New Leader (Boston.com) New boss, same as the old boss Big Dig into Our Wallets Fuels Boston 2024 Fears (Sentinel & Enterprise) Boston 2024: Little Benefit from Olympics for North Shore (The Salem News) Here’s What We Learned from the Boston Redevelo
Daily News Roundup – May 21, 2015
What We Have Here is a Bait-and-Switch (3Wire Sports) Loudmouth Bully Boys Try to Squelch Dissent at Olympics Meeting (Universal Hub) Boston Olympic Concerns, Fixing America’s Infrastructure Issues & Public Art on the Greenway (WGBH News) Senate Moves to Require Approval of Olympics Spending (Boston Globe) Full of loopholes Diane Wilkerson Threw Hat into Ring (Boston Herald) What We Learned from the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s Emails with Boston 2024 (Boston Magazine) WB
Daily News Roundup – May 20, 2015
Locals Split on Olympics Bid at Fields Corner Meeting (Dorchester Reporter) Keller @ Large: Don’t Trust Olympic Officials (CBS Local) Mayor Assured USOC Still Backs Bid (Boston Herald) Boston 2024 Official Tells Mayor ‘the USOC’s Committed” to Boston (Boston Herald) Supporters, Foes Speak out on Olympics Bid in Dorchester (Boston Globe) #Boston2024 Community Meetings Continue to Be Unsafe and Hostile Spaces for Opposition (Safe Hub Collective) Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln, H