Bid 2.0 came out yesterday, and it's filled with magic, lies, and bad ideas. Boston's Revised '24 Bid Criticized as Incomplete (NYT) State Leaders React Cautiously to Bid 2.0 (CommonWealth) Boston 2024 Promises a Lot at 'Minimal Risk' (CommonWealth) But even what they're promisng isn't good. See Which Real Estate Leaders Helped Boston 2024 Craft Its Financing Plan (BBJ) Boston 2024 Pressed for Details -- But Remain Vague -- on Insurance, Taxpayer Risks (BBJ) Here's What the B

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

Boston 2024's New Board Members, Now Totaling 50 Ray Flynn, Aly Raisman to Join Boston 2024 Board (Boston Globe) Ray Flynn's 5 Steps to Saving a Boston Olympics (Boston Herald) A mix of bad ideas and good ideas, none of which have to do with the Olympics Decision-Focused Meetings (Bain Capital) Some advice from Pags's own firm: "Our research highlights what we think of as the Rule of Seven: every person added to a decision-making group over seven reduces decision effectivenes

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

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

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

Brookline Town Meeting to Vote on Opposing Olympics Bid (Boston Globe) Long-Awaited Postal Service Move Remains on Hold Despite Olympics Push (Boston Globe) Former Atlanta Mayor Says Olympics Were a Boon to the City (WBUR) Wonder what the 30,000 people who were displaced would say..... Stoughton Resident Urges Selectmen Not to Use Taxpayer Dollars for Olympics (Wicked Local - Stoughton) And in other mega-event news.... FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Sepp Blatt