Boston Really Doesn’t Want to Host the Olympics Anymore (The Week) Did we ever? In a Reversal, Boston 2024 Wants a Vote on the Olympic Bid (NYT) Boston 2024 Faces Tall Task in Securing Venues (Boston Globe) Olympics Referendum Should Ask the Right Question (Boston Globe) Fitzgerald: Don’t Be Bullied into Backing the Olympics (Boston Herald) Editorial: Olympics to the Test (Boston Herald) With Ballot Questions, Money Matters (Boston Globe) Backlash Over Boston’s Olympic Bid Le

Boston 2024 Asks People to Get Inspired by a Nazi Propaganda Film (Bay State Examiner) MADLIMPICS: Salt Lake Cost Overrun Edition (Dig Boston) Maura Healey Backs Olympic Referendum (Boston Herald) But how would she vote? Rio Olympic Village to Become Luxury Apartments After the Games, Despite the City’s Affordable Housing Crisis (Washington Post) Walsh Machine to Push Olympic Bid (WGBH News) “Team Walsh” Recruited for Boston 2024 Olympic Bid (Boston Globe) Beacon Hill Leaders

Kerry Visits IOC Site, Makes Pitch for 2024 (Boston Globe) Because he doesn’t have more important things going on right now? Carr: Torch the Games with a Ballot (Boston Herald) Boston 2024: Get in that Olympic Spirit by Watching Some Leni Riefenstahl and a Movie about Vengeance for the Murder of Israeli Athletes (Universal Hub) Boston 2024 Tells Supporters to “Get Inspired” by Watching a Leni Riefenstahl Film (Blue Mass Group) Boston 2024 Must Shed Baggage of Past (Boston Her

FOPG Seeks New Venues for Olympics (Beacon Hill Times) Boston Olympics Bid is Bad News for Charlie Baker (MassPoliticsProfs) Snow Problems in Boston Send a Chill Through 2024 Olympics Bid (LA Times) Keller @ Large: Fear that Boston 2024 Olympics is Big Dig 2 (CBS Boston) MBTA is Top Concern at Olympics Forum (CBS Boston) When It Comes to Funding, Let’s Hold Boston 2024’s Feed to the Flame (Boston Globe) Until There is a Referendum, This Will Not Be ‘Boston’s Bid’ (Boston Glob

Hamburg to Compete with Boston for 2024 Olympics (Boston.com) Letter: Boston Olympics is Bad for Western Ma. (Berkshire Eagle) Anti-Olympics Group Delivers Its Message (Worcester Business Journal) Editorial: Keep Off the Grass (Boston Herald) SXSports: Mega Events and the Damage Done (The Austin Chronicle) No Public Money on the Olympic? Falchuk Says Set It in Bronze (Sentinel & Enterprise) Olympic Consultants Help Bid Cities Make Their Case (Boston Globe) Legislature Hires O

The Secrets Boomerang on Games Organizers (Boston Globe) “If patronage was an Olympic sport, Boston 2024 would get the gold.” United Independent Party’s Evan Falchuk on the Quest for a Statewide Olympic Ballot Referendum (WGBH News) How Olympic Games Transform Urban Space (Storify) My Storified tweets from the lecture last night BRA Approves New Columbia Point Building That Olympic Organizers Would Want to Tear Down for Athlete Housing (Dorchester Reporter) Episode 410 with R

Deval, Mitt, Marty, and More: the Politics of the Boston Olympics Bid (Boston.com) Comparing the New Videos from Boston 2024 & No Boston Olympics (BostInno) Mayor Walsh’s Office Turn Public Records Requests about the Olympics into PR (Pioneer Institute) Boston, Bay State Don’t Need the Olympics (BusinessWest) Will Boston City Council Shield Us from the Olympics? (DigBoston) No. Olympics Funding Has Big Dig Ring (Boston Globe) Olympic Records (Dig Boston) Beacon Hill’s Top 3 S

City Councilor Josh Zakim Wants the Olympics on the 2015 Boston Ballot (BostInno) Editorial: Olympic Ballot Nonsense (Boston Herald) While I support the push for a referendum, the Herald raises some good points, namely that if politicians think this is a bad idea, they should just say so. #BOSolympics: A Referendum that Can Lose But Still Win (WGBH News) T Woes Raise Worries about Olympic Travel (Boston Globe) MBTA Problems Show Either (a) We Can’t or (b) We Must Host the Oly

Probably the biggest news is that City Councilor Josh Zakim (Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Fenway, Mission Hill) just filed for four ballot questions for this November’s elections: Boston City Councilor Proposes Olympics Ballot Questions (WBUR) Boston Residents Should Be Able to Vote on 2024 Olympics, City Councilor Says (MassLive.com) Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim Proposes Non-Binding Ballot Questions on 2024 Olympics (MassLive.com) City Councilor Josh Zakim Calls for Citywide V

Opponents Weigh Referendum on Boston’s 2024 Olympics Bid (WBUR) 2024 Boston Olympics? Let the Lawsuits Begin (MetroWest Daily News) US Should Foot Part of the Bill for Olympics (Boston Globe) Globe Editorial Board calling for use of public funds. Don’t worry, I’m sure Boston 2024 is already lobbying for that. Knucklehead of the Week: Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (San Francisco Chronicle) Falchuk Looking to Grow Independent Party, Reject Olympics (iBerkshires.com) 2024: The Year o