Daily News Roundup - June 27, 2015
Boston 2024's Davey Rebuffs City Council Demands for Original Olympics Budget (BBJ) Boston 2024 Land Watch: Parcels Worth at Least $300 Million in Play for Olympics (WGBH News) Exclusive: City Hall Emails Highlight Boston Olympics Planning, Media Spin (BBJ) Boston 2024 Will Release Its Revised Bid on Monday (WBUR) Here's Everything We Learned about Boston 2024 from City Hall Emails, Part II (Boston Mag) From Yesterday's City Council Hearing: No Financial Updates at Today's Bo
Daily News Roundup - June 15, 2015
Private 'Master Developer' Option Weighed for Boston Olympics Venues (Dorchester Reporter) Architect Becomes Key Figure in Olympic Bid (Boston Globe) No mention of the $1,017,679 paid to Manfredi's firm by Boston 2024? #Boston2024, Boston Pride, & the IOC: Exploiting a Community for Their Own Gain (Storify) Keller @ Large: Walsh Says Boston Won't Be on Hook for Olympic Cost Overruns (CBS Local) Walsh says his attorneys read "the most important parts," which means "not the who
Daily News Roundup - June 12, 2015
Walsh Thinks It's "Silly" People Are Upset He Didn't Read the Boston 2024 Olympic Bid Before Signing (Bay State Examiner) Boston Olympics Group Adds MBTA Fire Power to Its Team (BBJ) Boston 2024, brought to you by....the people running the MBTA. Well, that's comforting. Why the MBTA Will Save the Boston Olympics Bid (Queue the Laugh Track) Boston 2024 Made Another Venue Change (BostInno) Dorchester Park is Tapped as Olympics Venue (Boston Globe) Andrew Zimbalist Maintains Bos
Daily News Roundup - June 11, 2015
On the Olympic land grab: Boston 2024 Eyes Seaport to Relocate Food Wholesalers (Boston Globe) Post-Olympic Real Estate Implications of the Boston 2024 Proposal (Pioneer Institute) Is Widett Circle a Tow Lot? (Jack Gately) On Boston 2024's tepid polling numbers: Bostonians Increasingly Opposed to City's 2024 Olympics Bid (Irish Times) Boston's Bid for 2024 Olympics Still Receiving Tepid Support, Poll Says (WSJ) Boston's Olympic Bid Is Heading into Big Test, and the Public's
Daily News Roundup - June 10, 2015
On the Bid Book: Has Anyone at City Hall Read the Boston 2024 Bid Book? (Boston Mag) Former Boston 2024 CEO Sheds Light on Bid's Financing, Land Acquisition (Boston Mag) Honeymoon over for Walsh? (CommonWealth) Walsh Signed Olympic Bid Without Reading It Because It Was "Many, Many Pages" (Bay State Examiner) Mayor Walsh Never Actually Read the Olympic Bid Before Pitching It (BostInno) Reading Is Fundamental--Except When It Comes to Olympic Bid Documents (Universal Hub) Walsh
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 7, 2015
BC Will Be Considered for Boston 2024 Olympic Plans (The Heights) Which Boston Venue Owners Are Ready to Commit to Boston 2024? (Boston Magazine) Details of ‘Highly Confidential’ Boston 2024 Bid Book Contained in UMass Emails (Boston Magazine) Where We Stand on a South Boston Soccer Stadium (Boston.com) Letter: Local Projects Come Before the Olympics (The Salem News) #BostonCollege #Venues #FOIA #OlympicStadium #BidBook #BobKraft #UMassBoston #Taxbreaks #Publicmoney
Daily News Roundup – April 28, 2015
The Motive Driving Olympics Push in Boston (Boston Globe) Michelle Kwan’s 2024 Bid Boost (Boston Herald) Is this satire? U.S. Rep Capuano Blasts Boston 2024’s ‘Lack of Transparency’ (Boston Herald) Boston 2024 Pushes to Keep Docs Secret (Boston Herald) Amendment to Bar Public Funds for Olympics Fails in House (State House News Service) Capuano: Public to Need ‘A Little Proof’ about Any Olympic Cost (Boston Herald) No Boston Olympics Will Host a Second Meeting (BostInno) #Gent