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


BREAKING: Boston 2024 Announces Innovative Velodrome Venue Location
When Boston 2024's long awaited Bid 2.0 was released Monday, two of the four major Olympics venues, the aquatics center and the velodrome, were listed as “TBD” despite Boston 2024’s repeated promises that they would offer a complete revised proposal. In the bid Boston 2024 submitted to the USOC in December, the velodrome had been located in Somerville; however, Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone quickly and unequivocally expressed his opposition to the idea. Boston 2024 was then
Daily News Roundup - June 30, 2015 - Bid 2.0
Bid 2.0 came out yesterday, and it's filled with magic, lies, and bad ideas. Boston's Revised '24 Bid Criticized as Incomplete (NYT) State Leaders React Cautiously to Bid 2.0 (CommonWealth) Boston 2024 Promises a Lot at 'Minimal Risk' (CommonWealth) But even what they're promisng isn't good. See Which Real Estate Leaders Helped Boston 2024 Craft Its Financing Plan (BBJ) Boston 2024 Pressed for Details -- But Remain Vague -- on Insurance, Taxpayer Risks (BBJ) Here's What the B
Daily News Roundup - June 27, 2015
Boston 2024's Davey Rebuffs City Council Demands for Original Olympics Budget (BBJ) Boston 2024 Land Watch: Parcels Worth at Least $300 Million in Play for Olympics (WGBH News) Exclusive: City Hall Emails Highlight Boston Olympics Planning, Media Spin (BBJ) Boston 2024 Will Release Its Revised Bid on Monday (WBUR) Here's Everything We Learned about Boston 2024 from City Hall Emails, Part II (Boston Mag) From Yesterday's City Council Hearing: No Financial Updates at Today's Bo
Daily News Roundup - June 24, 2015
In Boston's Faltering Bid for 2024 Games, a Message for Olympics (Christian Science Monitor) Another Boston 2024 Surprising (NECN) "Owners of hydroelectric plant that controls Deerfield River flows say they never heard from Olympics organizers." A Boston 2024 Pre-Mortem (Boston Globe) DCU Center Gets Boston Olympic Committee Nod for Handball Venue (Worcester Telegram) The Hidden Costs of a Boston Olympics (Andrew Zimbalist) What Does the IOC Think of Boston 2024? (Radio Bosto
Daily News Roundup - June 19, 2015
The Latest in Venues.... Boston 2024's Pagliuca, Mayor Walsh Grilled on Transportation at TD Garden (Boston Mag) "The Celtics’ home would host basketball if the bid succeeds. But if North Station is closed for security concerns, how would people get there?" Toronto to Offer Hosting Help to Boston in Olympic Bid? (Toronto Sun) Walkable! Olympic Proposal Met with Skepticism, Support in Quincy (Patriot Ledger) Around the World... Former Residents of Vila Autódromo Denounce Probl
Daily News Roundup - June 18, 2015
Boston 2024's Guide to Poetry: Start with "Ode to Sport" (Hester Prynne) Latest Venue Choice: Boston 2024 Rendering of Beach Volleyball in Quincy Olympic Outreach Photos (BostInno) The photos have the deceptiveness of those in diet pill ads. Volleyball Continues Exodus of Olympic Sites from Boston (Boston Globe) Quincy Olympic Volleyball Facility Surprises DCR (Dorchester Reporter) Boston 2024 Shifts Proposed Quincy Beach Volleyball Site to State Land (Boston Herald) A Fiscal
Daily News Roundup - June 17, 2015
Steve Pagliuca: Budget Surplus from Boston Olympics 'Doable' (Boston Herald) Quack tells you drug he's selling is a miracle cure. Boston 2024 Works to Add Donors, Retain Early Backers (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 Wants to Hold Beach Volleyball in Quincy (Boston Globe) Remember the Boston 2024 meeting in Quincy? Neither do we. Because it didn't happen. Boston Revises Bid in Effort to Host 2024 Olympics (NYT) Hamburg to Hold Public Vote on 2024 Olympic Bid in November (NBC Sports
Daily News Roundup - June 13, 2015
Harvard's Once-Prominent Role in Boston 2024's Plans Now Shrinking (Boston Globe) Suffolk Downs No Longer a Backup Olympic Stadium Site (Boston Globe) Poll: Would You Rather Have the 2024 Olympics or a Real Jurassic Park? (Boston.com) Risk Unavoidable with Games, Pagliuca Says (Boston Globe) "Risk for thee, Profit for me" The Case Against the "Innovation Games" (BostInno) Billerica Takes Its Shot at Olympic Spotlight (Lowell Sun) Official Asks: Is Quincy Involved in Boston's
Daily News Roundup - June 12, 2015
Walsh Thinks It's "Silly" People Are Upset He Didn't Read the Boston 2024 Olympic Bid Before Signing (Bay State Examiner) Boston Olympics Group Adds MBTA Fire Power to Its Team (BBJ) Boston 2024, brought to you by....the people running the MBTA. Well, that's comforting. Why the MBTA Will Save the Boston Olympics Bid (Queue the Laugh Track) Boston 2024 Made Another Venue Change (BostInno) Dorchester Park is Tapped as Olympics Venue (Boston Globe) Andrew Zimbalist Maintains Bos