Daily News Roundup – March 26, 2015
“Team Walsh” ‘Team Walsh’ Meets in Dorchester to Revive Boston’s Bid for the 2024 Olympics (WGBH News) Team Walsh Rallies Troops for 2024 Push (Dorchester Reporter) Boston Core Boston 2024 Comes to Cambridge (Medium) Brookline Town Meeting to Weigh in on Olympics Bid (Wicked Local – Brookline) Distrust Builds in Cambridge Over Boston 2024 Proposal (Wicked Local – Cambridge) Public Opinion/Referendum Polling Society Students Tackle Clinton, Tsarnev, NFL (Emerson News) Also tac
Daily News Roundup – March 25, 2015
Boston Really Doesn’t Want to Host the Olympics Anymore (The Week) Did we ever? In a Reversal, Boston 2024 Wants a Vote on the Olympic Bid (NYT) Boston 2024 Faces Tall Task in Securing Venues (Boston Globe) Olympics Referendum Should Ask the Right Question (Boston Globe) Fitzgerald: Don’t Be Bullied into Backing the Olympics (Boston Herald) Editorial: Olympics to the Test (Boston Herald) With Ballot Questions, Money Matters (Boston Globe) Backlash Over Boston’s Olympic Bid Le
Daily News Roundup – March 21, 2015
Instead of Pitching Games, Let us Win at Making Boston Climate-Safe (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 Grassroots Campaign Makes Use of Political Players (Boston Globe) Interesting use of “grassroots” Fed-Up Public Forced This ‘Change of Heart’ from Deval (Boston Herald) Walsh Hits Reset Button in Quest for Olympic Gold (Boston Herald) How about hitting “abort” instead? Editorial: Olympic Support Fizzles (Boston Herald) Spring Won’t Change Gloomy Forecast for Boston 2024 (Boston Glob
Daily News Roundup – March 20, 2015
The Olympic Gamble for Boston (Boston Globe) Patrick to Work Once a Month for Boston 2024, CEO Davey Says (Boston Herald) Olympic Bid Draws Power Players (Boston Globe) Patrick to Forego Boston 2024 Consulting Fee (Boston.com) Trying to fix the bad PR, but it’s not going to work Chris Dempsey Leaves Bain & Co., as Olympics Battle Rages On (Fortune) Mayor’s Chief of Staff Formally Discloses Ties to Boston 2024 Executive (Dorchester Reporter) Took long enough. Patrick’s Promoti
Daily News Roundup – March 14, 2015
Editorial: The Answer Behind the Franklin Park Olympics Non-Answers (JP Gazette) Editorial: Mayor Walsh’s Big Picture (JP Gazette) Community Skeptical of Franklin Park Olympics Use (JP Gazette) No Boston Olympics Visits Worcester (Worcester Magazine) The USOC is Unfazed by Low 2024 Boston Olympics Polling (WGBH News) I see that John Fish isn’t the only word misusing the word “socialize.” St. Patrick Has a Special Blessing Ready for the Boston 2024 Olympic Committee (WGBH News
Daily News Roundup – February 20, 2015
Some more coverage of that WBUR poll from yesterday: In Gloomy Time, Poll Finds Drop in Games Support (Boston Globe) Bad Weather Leads to Opposition Growing to Boston 2024 Olympic Bid, Poll Finds (Inside the Games) New Boston Olympics Poll Shows Opposition (Boston.com) WBUR/MassINC Poll Shows Dwindling Support for Olympics; Undercuts Key Claim in Bid Documents (Blue Mass Group) And in other news… Elizabeth Warren Has Olympic Questions (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 to Hold Public
Daily News Roundup – February 19, 2015
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