Daily News Roundup – April 26, 2015
What Boston 2024 Handed Over in That Private Meeting (United Independent) Boston’s Olympics Bid Links to the Worst Company in America (Terminalia) Poll Suggests Slight Gain for Olympics Bid (Boston Globe) Article belies the title. Health Justice for Boston April Newsletter (Health Justice for Boston) Boston 2024 Declines to Divulge Fees to PR Firm (Boston Globe) #WidettCircle #ColumbiaPoint #Gentrification #Polling #Inequality #Consultants #PublicRelations
Daily News Roundup – April 23, 2015
Keller @ Large: We Want Detailed Boston 2024 Olympics Plan (CBS Local) Championship Pedigree to Join Boston 2024 Board (Boston Globe) Many of whom don’t live in or even near Boston Who’s on the Boston 2024 Board? (Boston Globe) Editorial: Stellar Board, Big Questions (Boston Herald) Low-income Residents Worry about Olympics’ Repercussions (Boston Globe) Small Crowd at Easton Forum Split on Boston 2024 Olympic Bid (The Enterprise) Boston 2024 Olympics Timeline (WGBH News) Broo
Daily News Roundup – April 21, 2015
New Poll Shows the More You Know about Boston 2024, the Less Likely You Are to Support It (Blue Mass Group) Boston 2024: If You Like the Marathon, Ipso Facto, You Want the Olympics (Blue Mass Group) Celebrity Athletes Split on Hub Bid for the Olympics (Boston Herald) What Will Boston’s New Olympics Office Do? (Boston.com) Ludlow Selectman Aaron Saunders Voices ‘Grave Concerns’ about Boston 2024 Olympic Bid (Mass Live) Love at the Finish Line (Boston Herald) Mayor Walsh Helps
Daily News Roundup – April 18, 2015
Half of Boston Residents Don’t Want to Host the 2024 Olympics (ThinkProgress) Boston Olympics Bid Gets Messier All the Time (The Sport Digest) Western New England University Polling Institute Finds Voters Lean Against Boston Olympics Bid (WNE News) Biggest Supporters of Boston Olympics? Poll Says Look to Western Mass (NEPR) Rep: Olympics Backer Must Pay Market Rates for State Billboards (WWLP) Reid: Cities Have Grown Weary of USOC, IOC Games (Orange County Register) #Polling
Daily News Roundup – April 17, 2015
Tepid Local Support Puts Boston’s Olympic Bid in Doubt (USA Today) Brennan: Bail on Boston Olympic Bid, Give it to L.A. (USA Today) Boston 2024’s New Mantra: American Exceptionalism (Boston Globe) Walsh Hires In-House Olympics Analyst (Boston Globe) Imagine, If You Will, the Best Olympics Ever (Boston Globe) State Plans to Select Olympics Consultant Soon (Boston.com) Bostonians Don’t Want the Olympics (Breitbart News) The Boston Olympic Debacle (Grantland) #Polling #LA2024 #U
Daily News Roundup – April 16, 2015
WBUR Poll: Olympics Support Ticks Up, Halting Slide (WBUR) Support for Boston’s Olympic Bid is Still Lacking (NYT) Boston Area’s Support Still Low for 2024 Summer Olympics Bid, Poll Shows (WSJ) Hungary PM Orban Ready to Back 2024 Olympic Bid by Budapest (USA Today) Road to a Referendum: Behind the Plans on 2024 Ballot Questions (Dorchester Reporter) #Polling #Budapest2024 #BallotQuestion #EvanFalchuk
Latest WBUR/MassINC Poll Shows that Boston Area Residents Still Say No to #Boston2024
WBUR and MassINC just released their latest poll on public support for the Boston 2024 bid, and it shows that Boston area residents oppose hosting the Olympics here 50% to 40%. The numbers look slightly better for Boston 2024 than they did last month, when support was 36% and opposition 52%. However, when you’re calling 40% support a comeback, you know things aren’t looking good. Especially when the bump could just be “statistical noise.” Support for hosting the Olympics is h
Daily News Roundup – April 14, 2015
Terje Haakonsen: Greed pushes Olympics, snowboarding on downhill course (The Asahi Shimbun) Bay State Residents Oppose Boston 2024 Olympics (Gravis Marketing) Carr: For 2024, Poll Says Winning Fans a Herculean Task (Boston Herald) #Corruption #IOC #Polling
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 27, 2015
Public Sentiment Shifting on Boston 2024 Olympics Bid (Bay State Banner) Franklin Park Leaders: We Need More Info from Boston 2024 Planners (Dorchester Reporter) Boston 2024, or the Raven Returns (Boston Globe) Zakim Continuing Push for Boston-Only Olympics Ballot Questions, But Sets Conditions for Backing Statewide Question Instead (Universal Hub) Carr: Who Crowned Olympics Cheese King of the State? (Boston Herald) Editorial Cartoon: Boston Olympics Bungling (Boston Globe) L