Daily News Roundup - July 25, 2015
Trouble in the USOC No Plans to Decide on Olympics Until Review Is Complete, Baker Says (Boston Globe) USOC Asks Massachusetts Governor for His Stance on Boston '24 (AP) Column: USOC Needs to Dump Boston While There's Still Time (AP) Exclusive: USOC Set to Make Decision on Boston 2024 on Monday with Los Angeles Ready to Step In (Insde the Games) USOC Official Gets Caught Up in Olympics Fervor Online (Boston Globe) #OlympicsDebate The Missing Factor from the Boston 2024 Debate
Daily News Roundup - July 17, 2015
Coalition Files Petition for Olympics Ballot Question (WBUR) Black Leaders Say Olympics Plan Shortchanges Diversity, Minority Neighborhoods (BBJ) Complexities Abound for Boston 2024's Olympic Bid (Boston Globe) Confession: I Want the Olympics, Just Not These Olympics (Boston.com) Globe, Fox25 to Host Prime Time Olympic Debate (Boston Globe) Cities Have Grown Weary of USOC, IOC Games #USOCGoHome! (Universal Hub) Kosciuszko Circle on National Registry of Historic Places (Dorche
Daily News Roundup - July 15, 2015
Stadium Plan Raises Questions about $$$ Compensation for MBTA (State House News Service) This Is What Has Everybody So Worried about Boston's Olympics Bid (Boston.com) Six Development Takeaways from the BBJ's Interview with Boston 2024's Rich Davey (BBJ) City Councilor Sets Deadline for Boston Olympics Group to Produce Information (BBJ) No Holds Barred: Jonathan Cohn on Opposing Bosotn Hosting the 2024 Olympics (No Holds Barred) Number of Homeless Families in Boston up 25% (B
Daily News Roundup - July 9, 2015
Watch: Boston 2024 Opposition (WGBH News) Robin Jacks: "Boston 2024 is being hit from a lot of angles. I don’t think they know what to do with that—and I think it’s working." Projects Are Delayed in Rio De Janiero (AP) Nothing like a deadline, huh? Can Insurance Really Protect Taxpayers From Olympics Cost Overruns? (WGBH) Boston 2024 Should Look Hard at the Numbers for Long-Term Affordable Housing on the Point (Dot Reporter) Boston 2024 Opposition, Lincoln Chafee, and NASA As
Daily News Roundup – April 9, 2015
Podcast: Britni de la Cretaz on Opposing Boston Hosting the 2024 Olympics (No Holds Barred) Falchuk: No Taxpayer Money for Olympics (Wicked Local – Newton) House Hears from Boston 2024 (Boston Herald) Behind closed doors Columbia Point Building Boom Goes on in Face of Olympics Push (Dorchester Reporter) #JO2024 : “Pouvoir planifier l’avenir de #Boston pour les Bostoniens et non pour le #CIO” (Sport & Société) For our Francophone friends #Activism #EvanFalchuk #Publicmoney #Ba
Daily News Roundup – April 7, 2015
The Legacy of Olympic Surveillance (Dig Boston) In Opposition to Boston 2024’s Olympics Bid, a Long History of Patriotic Resistance (WBUR) Evan Falchuk: Residents are Right to Be Concerned about Funding Boston Olympics (Mass Live) Boston’s 2024 Olympic Dreams, Pounded? (Fansided) International Woes: Boston in Not the Only City with Olympic Ambivalence and Opposition (WGBH) When Denver Rejected the Olympics in Favour of the Environment and Economics (Guardian) #Surveillance #S
Daily News Roundup – April 3, 2015
Opposition Stop Confusing the Boston 2024 Opposition Groups (BostInno) Different Strategies, Same Goal: How Boston’s Olympic Opponents Work Together (Boston.com) They Just Don’t Want the Olympics (Boston.com) Omnishambles Boston Olympic Bid is a Problem of U.S.O.C.’s Own Making (NYT) Walsh Seeks to Open “Office of Olympic Accountability,” Funded by Boston 2024 (Bay State Examiner) Walsh: Yes, New Public Money Will Be Needed for 2024 Upgrades (Dorchester Reporter) And look at
Something Fish-y Going on in Allston Today
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
Daily News Roundup – March 30, 2015
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
Daily News Roundup – March 28/29, 2015
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