Daily News Roundup – April 30, 2015
Displacement, Diversity Focus of Latest Boston Olympics Meeting (Boston.com) Olympic Critics Are Clear-Eyed, Not Starry-Eyed (Boston Globe) IOC in Talks with Fifth City over 2024 Bid (Reuters) Another Knock on Transparency at Boston 2024 (Boston Globe) As 20-Year Anniversary of Olympics in Atlanta Nears, Bostonians Oppose Campaign for Games There (Atlanta Business Chronicle) Baker Halts $1B Expansion of Boston Convention Center (Boston Globe) Risky Business: A Q&A with Andrew
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
Daily News Roundup – February 19, 2015
WBUR commissioned a new poll on public support for the Olympics and found a 13% rise in opposition since last month. Support for Boston Olympics is Dwindling, WBUR Poll Finds (WBUR) “It has to do with voters now having a new appreciation of how bad the MBTA actually is and seeing the impacts of the storm and thinking there are other priorities in which money would be better spent.” Poll Shows Bloom Has Fallen Off Olympic Bid for Most Bostonians (NPR) And the next big news is