Boston Mayor’s Early Lessons (Boston Globe) Op-ed from Scott Lehigh: “Walsh clearly got too close too quickly, with too little homework, to construction magnate John Fish’s vanity project.” City Council Forms Committee on Olympics Bid (Boston Globe) Notably excludes Josh Zakim, who has been pushing for ballot questions and is far more engaged with the issue than his peers John Fish, the Olympics, and Troy from the ‘Goonies’ (Dig Boston) Boston Officials Can Woo IOC Voters But

Just Say No (The Economist) “Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup is bad for a city’s health.” ‘Ask the Mayor’ with Marty Walsh (WGBH) “On a daily basis I don’t hear the anti-Olympic thing.” Uh…you put a gag order on your employees. Keep the Common Olympics-Free (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 to Meet at Franklin Park March 5 (Jamaica Plain Gazette) Here’s the Key Part of Boston’s New USOC Agreement (Boston.com) Push to Make “Boston” Games, “Commonwealth” Games (WWLP) #WorldCup

Olympics: New Group Calls for Rights-Respecting Bids (Human Rights Watch) House Bill Would Give Beacon Hill Oversight of Olympics Bid Process (Dorchester Reporter) Is Record Snowfall Ruining Boston’s Chances to Host Olympics? (WCVB) No, angry residents are/can. Neighborhood Concerns Raised at Back-to-Back Boston Olympics Meetings (Boston.com) Olympics Backers Press Case in Latest Public Meetings (Dorchester Reporter) Walsh, 2024 Chiefs Meet with Widett Circle Owners (Dorchest

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

Olympics Bid Organizers Discuss Issues with Residents in Roxbury (Boston Globe) Roxbury Residents Voice Concerns At Meeting on Boston Olympics (WBUR) Planned Olympic Transit Projects Pose Funding Challenge (Boston Globe) Taxpayers May Be on the Hook for $4B in Improvements for Olympics (WCVB) Walsh Could Put Taxpayers on the Hook for Olympics Cost Overruns (Bay State Examiner) Braceras: Boston Not up to Olympic 2024 Effort (Boston Herald) Olympic Organizers Reconsidering Bost

WBUR commissioned a new poll on public support for the Olympics and found a 13% rise in opposition since last month. Support for Boston Olympics is Dwindling, WBUR Poll Finds (WBUR) “It has to do with voters now having a new appreciation of how bad the MBTA actually is and seeing the impacts of the storm and thinking there are other priorities in which money would be better spent.” Poll Shows Bloom Has Fallen Off Olympic Bid for Most Bostonians (NPR) And the next big news is

Boston 2024 Team Begins D.C. Push for Political Support (Boston Globe) Boston Olympics is Bad News for Massachusetts Governor (The Conversation) Many Doubt Benefits of 2024 Olympics (Somerville Community Access Television) Boston 2024: Olympics Plans Include Volleyball in Holyoke, Basketball in Springfield, Whitewater on Deerfield River (MassLive) Walkable, eh? Boston, for the Gold? (BostInno) For Walsh’s Chief of Staff, a Super Birthday Gift (Boston Globe) Marty’s CoS is dat

How London’s Olympics Went Way Over Budget (Boston.com) Boston 2024 Organizers to Meet with Mass. Congressional Delegation (Boston Globe) Because they want some federal $$s Legislators File Bill to Make Boston 2024’s Olympic Bid More Transparent (WBUR) Rep. Aaron Michlewitz Files for Olympics Transparency, Airbnb Rules, and Restaurant Incentives (North End Waterfront) Gold-Level Accounting (Worcester Telegram) Meeting Aims at Transparent Olympic Process (The Huntington News)

Allow Her to Rain on the Mayor’s Parade (Boston Globe) A letter-to-the-editor from a JP resident who disapproved of Marty’s decision to host the parade when the MBTA was still a mess and traffic in gridlock. “Maybe that’s too much to ask from a mayor who apparently also believes that everyone in Boston wants to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Time is running out for this mayor to start listening.” Mayor Walsh’s Olympic-Sized Risk (Boston Globe) Boris Johnson Accused of Short-C

‘Circus Maximus’ Tallies the Real Cost of Hosting the Olympics (WBUR) Cities Could Win Economically by Losing Olympics (Scientific American) Make Way for…Beach Volleyball? (Boston Herald) An Olympic-Sized Problem: System Groans Under Weight of Demand (Boston Globe) Meet the Guys Who Got the Boston 2024 Movement Started (Boston.com) Boston Mayor Meets with Group Opposed to Olympics (WWLP) No Boston Olympics met with Marty. I can’t see Marty changing his mind just based on meet