Daily News Roundup - July 20, 2015
Cambridge City Councillor Wants to Subpoena Boston 2024 into Releasing Info (Boston Mag) Now They've Done It: Boston 2024's Gotten Tito Jackson Mad (Universal Hub) What The Olympics Means for the People of Rio: 'The Reptuation of Brazil is at Stake' (Guardian) Columbia Point's Conversion Came at a Cost (Boston Globe) What Japan's Olympic Stadium Fiasco Means for Boston (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 Sees Columbia Road as Olmsted Jewel (Boston Globe) What Else is Boston 2024 Hidin
Daily News Roundup - July 8, 2015
Mayor Wants to Push Forward with Redeveloping Widett, Even if Olympics Don't Materialize (Boston Globe) Revised Cost of Tokyo 2020 Stadium Approved (ESPN) Rep. Lynch on Iraq: No Way Forward; On Widett Circle: Bad Idea (WGBH News) Spike in Olympic Stadium Costs Highlights Shifting Budget Risks (BBJ) Olympic Organizers Ponder Strategy for Boosting Support (Boston Globe) Squantum Point Park Run (Imgur) Group Calls Olympic Spending Ban 'Smoke and Mirrors' (Boston Herald) And righ
Daily News Roundup - July 6, 2015
Think the Guardian's trying to send a message.... Olympic Legacy Failure: Inspiring London 2012 Message Has Become a Millstone (Guardian) Olympic Legacy Failure: Sporting Numbers Plummit Amid Confusion and Blame (Guardian) Olympic Legacy Failure: Tessa Jowell Attacks 'Wicked' Coalition Government (Guardian) Olympic Legacy Failure: Sports Centres Under Assault by Thousand Council Cuts (Guardian) Olympic Legacy Failure: Access to School Sport Now a Postcode Lottery (Guardian) H
Daily News Roundup - June 8, 2015
Rich Davey was on On the Record yesterday. Janet Wu and Ed Harding did a good job at grilling him and rightfully asked why people should believe a word he said. Notably, he refused to rule out taxpayer-backed bonds for the Olympic stadium, and he continued using the Boston 2024 talking point that Widett Circle is just a tow lot. On the Record - Rich Davey - Segment 1 (WCVB) On the Record - Rich Davey - Segment 2 (WCVB) On the Record - Rich Davey - Segmetn 3 (WCVB) And in othe
Daily News Roundup - June 2, 2015
An Olympic Effort at Transparency Is Needed (Boston Globe) Hiller Instinct: Boston 2024 Olympics Just Say No (WHDH TV) State Hires Cambrdige Firm to Analyze Olympic Bid (Boston Globe) If they really cared about protecting the public purse, they would just pull the bid. Boston Mayor Needs to Focus on the City (Boston Globe) Baker 'Pretty Sure' Statewide Olympic Venues in the Works (State House News Service) Not really "walkable" anymore then Arlington Debates Pros and Cons of
Daily News Roundup – May 15, 2015
2020 Summer Games Pact to Tape Tokyo Taxpayers (Boston Herald) City Releases 2020 Olympics Contract under Pressure from Herald (Boston Herald) An Olympic-Sized Lack of Data on the Views of Boston’s Minorities (Boston Globe) There’s No Denying Los Angeles’s Growing Olympics Appeal (Boston Globe) Bay State’s DC Team Aggressively Noncommittal on Boston 2024’s Olympic Bid (WGBH) As Baker Bemoans Sluggish Boston 2024, Hiring for His Olympic Consultant Behind Schedule (Dorchester R
Daily News Roundup – May 11, 2015
Shake-up in the Works for Reeling Olympics Group (Boston Globe) Can New Leadership Mean Change for Boston 2024 (Boston.com) Carr: A Solution for Olympics Bid? Go Fish (Boston Herald) Meet the New Boss… (United Independent) Skeptics Say Boston 2024 Shuffle Misses the Point (Boston Herald) South End Gentrification Makes for Variety of Residents (Boston Globe) DSC Calls upon New Government to Repay Big Lottery £425m Borrowed for Olympics, Now 1,000 Days Overdue (Civilsociety.co.
Daily News Roundup – May 3, 2015
Dear Shirley: On the Subject of Media Coverage of Boston 2024 (Hester Prynne) Olympics Gentrification, Local Benefits Discussed (Mission Hill Gazette) Boston 2024 Organizers Face Tough Sell in Southie (Boston Globe) Professor: Olympics Would Harm Not Help Massachusetts (WBSM) Olympic Bid Faces Daunting Foreign Rivals (Boston Globe) In Boston 2024 They Don’t Trust (Boston Herald) #ShirleyLeung #Gentrification #Roxbury #SouthBoston #Paris2024 #Hamburg2024 #Rome2024 #Budapest202
Daily News Roundup – April 29, 2015
Roxbury Crowd Fears Olympic Displacement (Boston Herald) Roxbury Residents Question Olympic Jobs Promises (Boston Globe) Here are the First Images of What Boston 2024 Plans for Its Legacy (BostInno) T Repair Facilities Pose Challenges to Olympic Stadium (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 Needs to Rethink Its ‘Walkable Games’ Plan (BostInno) Roxbury Residents See Through Boston 2024’s Bullsh*t (Storify) Carr: Filling Olympics Trough Will Be Taxing Endeavor (Boston Herald) #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