Marty Walsh Signs Olympic Muzzle Order, Says He Didn't Mean It (WGBH News) Economist, Olympic Expert Andrew Zimbalist on Boston 2024's '2.0' Plan: 'It's Bologna' (BostInno) Public Voices Concerns Over Reveamped Boston 2024 Bid (The Heights) Memo to Boston 2024: Good Luck Staying out of Politics (Boston Globe) Olympic Golf Off the Table for Brookline (Wicked Local - Brookline) Five Things You Should Know About Todd Millay of Choate Investment Advisors (Boston Globe) Breaking:

Is the Grand Prix Taking Boston for a Ride? (Boston Mag) Marty Walsh's Bad Habits (Blue Mass Group) Parks Group Builds Its List of Olympics Questions (JP Gazette) Experts: Olympics Limit Freedoms, Boost Debt (JP Gazette) A report on our event from Tuesday Boston 2024 Skips Full White Stadium Costs (JP Gazette) Slow, Imprecise, Expensive: Boston Olympcis Requests Show a City Badly in Need of Sunshine (MuckRock) Boston 2024's Friday News Dump Donations from Ex-Chair John Fish H

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

Rio to Ask Big Companies to Shut Down During Olympics (Reuters) Olympics Organizers Have Time to Talk (Boston Globe) “When I pulled Davey aside after the meeting Monday night at the Yawkey Boys & Girls Club of Boston in Roxbury, I told him that the distant games seem to give organizers wide latitude to be vague. To issue broad promises. To make sweeping, patriotic-tinged appeals for the societal glue that sports can supply. To sometimes dance with facts.” Hundreds Gather at S

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

Anybody But Boston in 2024 (Boson Globe) From one of the Globe’s sports columnists Walsh Says Boston Wouldn’t Use Eminent Domain for Olympics Stadium (Boston.com) The headline is inaccurate. He says that he won’t. He is also not the BRA, the agency that does. The state legislature could also have a public-private entity do it. Boston Will Not Use Eminent Domain to Build an Olympic Stadium (Updated with Clarification) (Washington Post) That clarification is important. IOC Lead

Renaming Boston Spots, for 2024 Olympics and Beyond (Boston Globe) Some of these are quite funny. Like BoCo. At What Price Will the Games Be Worth It to Boston? (Boston Globe) Shirley Leung seems to have some skepticism for once. Although I must say, I found this to be hilarious: “It’s not that Olympics boosters are trying to pull a fast one on us….” Editorial: Tarr’s Olympic Bill Would Provide Needed Oversight (Gloucester Times) Editorial: Up Close with Olympics Elitism (Jam

Questions Linger on Boston’s Bid to Host the Olympics (Bay State Banner) Walsh, Boston 2024 Must Amend USOC Agreement (Dorchester Reporter) Boston Olympic Bid Faces More Than Digging Itself out of Snow (Chicago Tribune) Pols Oppose ’24 Olympics Venue Sites (Boston Herald) “I don’t mean to be rude about it, but what does anybody do with a velodrome after the Olympics?” Lynch: ‘I Have Major Problems’ with 2024 Olympic Stadium in Southie (Boston Herald) I like seeing such statem

Landowners Say Consent Not Given for Games Plans (Boston Globe) Davey to Take Over Leadership of Boston 2024 (Boston Herald) Changing leadership already? A Look at Olympics Budget Points to Overruns (Boston Globe) Op-ed by Andrew Zimbalist, the economist who spoke at the No Boston Olympics meeting 3 Challenges for Boston 2024’s Olympic Bidding Documents (Boston.com) Opponents Weigh Referendum on Boston 2024 Olympics Bid (Washington Times) Editorial Cartoon: Olympics Speech (B

Jondergate Boston 2024 Free Speech Kerfuffle: Walsh’s Explanation Worse Than Original Ban (WBUR) Mayor Walsh’s Letter to City Employees (Boston Globe) What bull. Walsh Tries to Clarify USOC Rule on Bid Talk (Boston Globe) “Walsh, however, has not said if he plans to change the agreement.” Spoiler: He has none. Boston’s Ban on Anti-Olympics Talk is Unproductive (Fortune) Lawyers: Boston “Has to Be Ready” for Lawsuits over Deal Requiring Employees to Support Olympics Bid (Massl