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 – April 4, 2015
Help us Build a Skyscraper in Boston Globe Columnist Shirley Leung’s Backyard (Dig Boston) Rio Mayor Says Olympic Work on Time Despite Worker Layoffs (Boston Herald) Why Doesn’t Boston Want to Host the 2024 Summer Olympics? It’s Pretty Simple. (Bustle) This piece only scratches the surface of the grounds for opposition. If Boston Olympics Are Really Privately Funded, the Opposition Would Crumble: Viewpoint (Mass Live) FALSE Don’t Blame the Media for Boston 2024’s Woes (WGBH N
Daily News Roundup – March 28/29, 2015
The Boston Olympics Con Job (The Nation) No Boston 2024 in The Nation ** Is the Olympic Opposition Going to Turn? (Boston Globe) NBO’s response Colorado Voices: Why Not Have a Permanent Site for the Olympics? (Denver Post) Editorial: First Up, An Olympics of Public Skepticism on the 2024 Games (Daily Hampshire Gazette) 2024 Olympics Question Would Be Good on November 2016 Ballot, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker Says (Mass Live) What Does No Boston Olympics Think About the Bo
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Daily News Roundup – March 24, 2015
Boston 2024 Asks People to Get Inspired by a Nazi Propaganda Film (Bay State Examiner) MADLIMPICS: Salt Lake Cost Overrun Edition (Dig Boston) Maura Healey Backs Olympic Referendum (Boston Herald) But how would she vote? Rio Olympic Village to Become Luxury Apartments After the Games, Despite the City’s Affordable Housing Crisis (Washington Post) Walsh Machine to Push Olympic Bid (WGBH News) “Team Walsh” Recruited for Boston 2024 Olympic Bid (Boston Globe) Beacon Hill Leaders
Daily News Roundup – March 23, 2015
Kerry Visits IOC Site, Makes Pitch for 2024 (Boston Globe) Because he doesn’t have more important things going on right now? Carr: Torch the Games with a Ballot (Boston Herald) Boston 2024: Get in that Olympic Spirit by Watching Some Leni Riefenstahl and a Movie about Vengeance for the Murder of Israeli Athletes (Universal Hub) Boston 2024 Tells Supporters to “Get Inspired” by Watching a Leni Riefenstahl Film (Blue Mass Group) Boston 2024 Must Shed Baggage of Past (Boston Her
Daily News Roundup – March 10, 2015
Deval, Mitt, Marty, and More: the Politics of the Boston Olympics Bid (Boston.com) Comparing the New Videos from Boston 2024 & No Boston Olympics (BostInno) Mayor Walsh’s Office Turn Public Records Requests about the Olympics into PR (Pioneer Institute) Boston, Bay State Don’t Need the Olympics (BusinessWest) Will Boston City Council Shield Us from the Olympics? (DigBoston) No. Olympics Funding Has Big Dig Ring (Boston Globe) Olympic Records (Dig Boston) Beacon Hill’s Top 3 S
Daily News Roundup – February 23, 2015
Olympic Finances Need City Pledge (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 To Hold Its First Community Meeting (NECN) 3 Groups Who Could Benefit from Boston 2024 (BostInno) Note: Residents are not one of them. Locals Push for Olympic Water Games in Deerfield (Daily Hampshire Gazette) “Regional equity” in this context = spread the gravy, spread the graft If Olympics Come, Lowell’s Rourke Bridge Would Go (Lowell Sun) #FinancialGuarantee #Costoverruns #Publicmoney #JohnFish #Media #WesternMas
NoBoston2024 Featured in Boston Globe, DigBoston
This week, NoBoston2024 was featured in the Boston Globe and DigBoston. Nestor Ramos, “Opposed to Olympics, Groups Aim to Erect Hurdles,” Boston Globe, January 10, 2015 Dig Staff, “Meet Boston’s Olympic Curmudgeons,” DigBoston, January 14, 2015 Joanna Weiss, “Get Ready for Olympic-sized Protests,” Boston Globe, January 16, 2015 ************************************************ If you were unable to make it to No Boston Olympics’s first post-USOC announcement meeting, you can r