Daily News Roundup - July 3, 2015
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:
Daily News Roundup - June 26, 2015
Rome's City Council Votes in Favor of Rome 2024 Bid (AP) European city councils seem to actually vote on things. How novel. Mayor Walsh Has a Boston Olympics Problem of His Own Making (BBJ) City Hall Vetted Communications, FOIA Response with Boston 2024 PR Team (BBJ) Dot Gathering Airs Some Locals' Concerns about Olympics (Dorchester Reporter) Andrew Zimbalist on the Hidden Costs of Boston 2024 (WGBH News) Can Boston 2024 Win Over the Doubters? (NECN) No. Stupid question. #Do
Eight Things We Learned from the Northwind-City Hall Documents
Many people have criticized the fact that the Mayor’s Office and Boston 2024 seem to be interchangeable when it comes to the Olympic bid process. Recent documents gained from a public records request on communication between Northwind Strategies, Boston 2024’s PR firm, and the Mayor’s Office show the truth of such criticism. (1) The Mayor’s Office ran a statement by Mayor Walsh on the Olympic bid by Northwind for approval before releasing. On December 1st, Melina Schuler, sen
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 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
Daily News Roundup - June 9, 2015
Unsolved Mystery: Why Was Bob Kraft Ever Listed as a Boston 2024 Director? (BBJ) Will the USOC Stick with Boston, Give up, or Choose Another City? (AP) Marty Walsh Defends Boston's Olympic Bid on "Ask the Mayor" (WGBH News) At ~31:55, he admits that he never read it. And down in Rio... Tense Week Introduces New Policy of "Lightning Evictions" Across Rio Favelas (RioOnWatch) #BobKraft #USOC #Rio2016 #MartyWalsh #Transparency
Daily News Roundup - June 6, 2015
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
Daily News Roundup - June 5, 2015
What Will the Olympics Cost and Who's Paying? (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 'Rethinking' Cycle Track in Somerville (Wicked Local - Somerville) Does Boston City Hall Have a Public Records Problem? (Boston Mag) Experts Need Not Apply: Economists Excluded from Olympic Study Committee (BMG) Slow, Imprecise, Expensive: Boston Olympics Requests Show a City Badly in Need of Sunshine (MuckRock) #Velodrome #Somerville #Publicmoney #FOIA #MartyWalsh #Economists #AndrewZimbalist
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 5, 2015
Boston Globe Fails to Understand South Boston Olympic Opposition (Universal Hub) Refusing to Host the Olympics: The Deceptive IOC Brand (Scoop) Striking Omissions in Boston 2024 Board Members’ Bios (Boston Globe) Walsh’s Hypocrisy on Taking Money from Boston 2024 (Bay State Examiner) Why the Last Two U.S. Olympic Bids Failed (BostInno) #IOC #Boston2024Board #MoCowan #DanOConnell #MartyWalsh #NYC2012 #Chicago2016 #SouthBoston