WBUR Poll: Olympics Support Ticks Up, Halting Slide (WBUR) Support for Boston’s Olympic Bid is Still Lacking (NYT) Boston Area’s Support Still Low for 2024 Summer Olympics Bid, Poll Shows (WSJ) Hungary PM Orban Ready to Back 2024 Olympic Bid by Budapest (USA Today) Road to a Referendum: Behind the Plans on 2024 Ballot Questions (Dorchester Reporter) #Polling #Budapest2024 #BallotQuestion #EvanFalchuk

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

USOC Hits Wall in Boston (Colorado Springs Independent) “If the U.S. Olympic Committee had an unofficial motto, it would be this: Quidam solvit. It’s austere, dignified and concise. Translated, it’s a little coarser: ‘Someone else pays.'” Rosenberg: No Tax Dollars on 2024 Olympics (Boston Herald) Statement from John Fish on Potential Olympic Projects (Boston Globe) Many loopholes in his statement, including no acknowledgement of post-Olympic construction in Widett Circle POV:

Who’s Footing the Bill for Boston 2024? (NECN) Independent Experts Can Study Boston 2024’s Books, Chief Says (Boston Globe) If Marty is a booster, his hires aren’t going to be particularly independent. Parents Offer Boston Olympics Our Playing Field for Track and Field Events (Curley K-8) April Fool’s Day humor from yesterday Mayor Walsh Sends Blunt Warning to USOC (Keller @ Large) “Hand-picked analysts” whose salaries will be “paid by Boston 2024.” LOL Boston 2024 Head Quest

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

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

“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