Daily News Roundup - July 18/19, 2015
Imagine What Hosting 2016 Olympics Would've Cost Cash-Strapped Chicago (Chicago Tribune) Olympic Bidding Group Facing Political Pressures (Boston.com) Mass. Agencies Often Limit Access to Public Records (Boston Globe) Luxury-Home Lottos Reconsidered in Boston Housing Squeeze (Bloomberg) Boston2024 Can't Be Trusted to Pull off Olympics (Boston Globe) #FOIA #Transparency #Housing #BallotQuestion #EvanFalchuk #Chicago2016
Daily News Roundup - July 13, 2015
Latest Olympic Plan Leaves Media without a Home (Boston Globe) Mapping Tools Show Boston's Disparity (Boston Globe) Watch: Boston 2024 Activists Inform News Coverage (WGBH News) Including an interview with our Jonathan Cohn about our FOIA requests Boston Politician: Olympic Spending Reform Meaningless (Around the Rings) The Confederate Games of America (DigBoston) How Likely Are "Revenue Overruns" for Boston 2024? (BostInno) The Boston Follies: The Planned Rape of the Public
Daily News Roundup - July 9, 2015
Watch: Boston 2024 Opposition (WGBH News) Robin Jacks: "Boston 2024 is being hit from a lot of angles. I don’t think they know what to do with that—and I think it’s working." Projects Are Delayed in Rio De Janiero (AP) Nothing like a deadline, huh? Can Insurance Really Protect Taxpayers From Olympics Cost Overruns? (WGBH) Boston 2024 Should Look Hard at the Numbers for Long-Term Affordable Housing on the Point (Dot Reporter) Boston 2024 Opposition, Lincoln Chafee, and NASA As
Testimony by Cassie Hurd at the 6/26 City Council Hearing on Boston 2024 Venues and Financing
The following testimony was given by Cassie Hurd on behalf of No Boston 2024 and the Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee at the hearing of the Boston City Council's Special Committee on the 2024 Olympics on Friday, June 26, 2015: My name is Cassie Hurd; I'm an Allston resident and am here on behalf of No Boston 2024 and the Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee. I was immediately concerned when Boston was picked by the USOC in January as I knew the legacy of displacement the
Daily News Roundup – May 22, 2015
Dear USOC, Nah, We Really Don’t Want the Olympics (Boston.com) US Delegation to Visit IOC Next Week for Talks on Boston Bid (Fox Sports) How Things Went Wrong for Boston’s Olympic Leader John Fish (Boston.com) Boston 2024’s Got a New Leader (Boston.com) New boss, same as the old boss Big Dig into Our Wallets Fuels Boston 2024 Fears (Sentinel & Enterprise) Boston 2024: Little Benefit from Olympics for North Shore (The Salem News) Here’s What We Learned from the Boston Redevelo
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 13, 2015
Boston Apartment Rents Third-Highest in Country (WCVB) Critics of Boston Olympic Bid Aren’t Content with Expected Changes (LA Times) BPR in with the New: Elections, Olympics, and TV (WGBH) Mike Capko is the World’s Worst Person in Sports (ESPN) And Pagliuca gets bronze. IOC Insider: Boston 2024 Needs ‘Magnetic Leader’ like Mitt (Boston Herald) LOL Steve Lynch Backs Liz Warren in Trade Spat with Obama (Boston Herald) It gets to Boston 2024 later on. Boston 2024 Bid Discussion
Daily News Roundup – April 1, 2015
Boston Olympics Problem Isn’t John Fish. It’s Us (Boston Globe) Shirley Leung, of course. I think you could probably power the whole “temporary stadium” with the heat of this take. Lack of Public Support May Doom Boston’s Bid for 2024 Olympics (WSJ) USOC Denies Report It Might Drop Boston as a Host City (Boston Globe) Letter: Olympic Effort Failing (Boston Herald) Boston 2024 Officials Remain Focused Despite Reports Bid May Be in Jeopardy (CBS Local) USOC Should Decide by Mid
Daily News Roundup – March 18, 2015
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
Daily News Roundup – February 16, 2015
Olympic Games Could Impact Region (Wicked Local – Woburn) UMass Boston Plays Key Role in Olympic Bid (Boston Globe) What is “workforce housing”? And how is there anything remotely “green” about “modular and movable housing units”? And who is paying to move them? Whose City? Whose Olympics? (Part I) (Open Media Boston) Boston 2024 Could Be a Crossroads Moment for the IOC (BostInno) London Mayor: Don’t Be Put Off by ‘Negativity’ Over Olympics (Wicked Local -Walpole) Go away, Bo