Daily News Roundup – May 9, 2015
Boston 2024 Changes Franklin Park Plan (JP Gazette) London Protester: Olympics Damaged Park (JP Gazette) Anti-Olympics Speakers to Talk Displacement, Surveillance (JP Gazette) The Globe’s I-93 Off-Ramp (CommonWealth) Marathon Rescue Hero Joins Anti-Olympics Protest (JP Gazette) Newly Released Boston 2024 Budget Details Contained in UMass Records (Boston Magazine) What if Girding for Climate Change Were an Olympic Event? (Boston Globe) 500 Days Out, Rio Risks Olympics Cost Sur
Daily News Roundup – May 7, 2015
BC Will Be Considered for Boston 2024 Olympic Plans (The Heights) Which Boston Venue Owners Are Ready to Commit to Boston 2024? (Boston Magazine) Details of ‘Highly Confidential’ Boston 2024 Bid Book Contained in UMass Emails (Boston Magazine) Where We Stand on a South Boston Soccer Stadium (Boston.com) Letter: Local Projects Come Before the Olympics (The Salem News) #BostonCollege #Venues #FOIA #OlympicStadium #BidBook #BobKraft #UMassBoston #Taxbreaks #Publicmoney
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
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 19, 2015
Here’s the Complete 2024 Olympic Economic Study from the Boston Foundation (BostInno) About an Olympics Push, ‘March Madness,’ and Other Notions (Dorchester Reporter) UMass Report Lays out the Plusses of 2024 Games, and Adds a Big ‘But’ (Dorchester Reporter) A Carnival of Mansplaining: Boston 2024 Comes to Cambridge (Storify) From last night’s meeting Dear Boston 2024: Just Be Your Rich, Well-Connected Selves (Hester Prynne) The Boston 2024 Community Meeting Drinking Game (Di
Daily News Roundup – March 18, 2015
FOPG Seeks New Venues for Olympics (Beacon Hill Times) Boston Olympics Bid is Bad News for Charlie Baker (MassPoliticsProfs) Snow Problems in Boston Send a Chill Through 2024 Olympics Bid (LA Times) Keller @ Large: Fear that Boston 2024 Olympics is Big Dig 2 (CBS Boston) MBTA is Top Concern at Olympics Forum (CBS Boston) When It Comes to Funding, Let’s Hold Boston 2024’s Feed to the Flame (Boston Globe) Until There is a Referendum, This Will Not Be ‘Boston’s Bid’ (Boston Glob
Daily News Roundup – February 16, 2015
Olympic Games Could Impact Region (Wicked Local – Woburn) UMass Boston Plays Key Role in Olympic Bid (Boston Globe) What is “workforce housing”? And how is there anything remotely “green” about “modular and movable housing units”? And who is paying to move them? Whose City? Whose Olympics? (Part I) (Open Media Boston) Boston 2024 Could Be a Crossroads Moment for the IOC (BostInno) London Mayor: Don’t Be Put Off by ‘Negativity’ Over Olympics (Wicked Local -Walpole) Go away, Bo