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

Opposition Stop Confusing the Boston 2024 Opposition Groups (BostInno) Different Strategies, Same Goal: How Boston’s Olympic Opponents Work Together (Boston.com) They Just Don’t Want the Olympics (Boston.com) Omnishambles Boston Olympic Bid is a Problem of U.S.O.C.’s Own Making (NYT) Walsh Seeks to Open “Office of Olympic Accountability,” Funded by Boston 2024 (Bay State Examiner) Walsh: Yes, New Public Money Will Be Needed for 2024 Upgrades (Dorchester Reporter) And look at

Who’s Footing the Bill for Boston 2024? (NECN) Independent Experts Can Study Boston 2024’s Books, Chief Says (Boston Globe) If Marty is a booster, his hires aren’t going to be particularly independent. Parents Offer Boston Olympics Our Playing Field for Track and Field Events (Curley K-8) April Fool’s Day humor from yesterday Mayor Walsh Sends Blunt Warning to USOC (Keller @ Large) “Hand-picked analysts” whose salaries will be “paid by Boston 2024.” LOL Boston 2024 Head Quest

Hamburg to Compete with Boston for 2024 Olympics (Boston.com) Letter: Boston Olympics is Bad for Western Ma. (Berkshire Eagle) Anti-Olympics Group Delivers Its Message (Worcester Business Journal) Editorial: Keep Off the Grass (Boston Herald) SXSports: Mega Events and the Damage Done (The Austin Chronicle) No Public Money on the Olympic? Falchuk Says Set It in Bronze (Sentinel & Enterprise) Olympic Consultants Help Bid Cities Make Their Case (Boston Globe) Legislature Hires O

Massachusetts Needs Sunshine–And Not Just Outside (Blue Mass Group) Olympic Bad News for W. Mass – Remember the Big Dig? (Commonwealth Mag) Do We Really Want a Boston Olympics? (Verge Campus) Wright Stuff: Comedy Legend Steven Wright on Louis C.K., Laughing, and Dreading Boston 2024 (Dig Boston) Three Recent Sports Titles (Boston Globe) “Circus Maximus ought to be required reading for the city and state officials anxious to bring the Olympics to Boston.” West Roxbury Resident

Just Say No (The Economist) “Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup is bad for a city’s health.” ‘Ask the Mayor’ with Marty Walsh (WGBH) “On a daily basis I don’t hear the anti-Olympic thing.” Uh…you put a gag order on your employees. Keep the Common Olympics-Free (Boston Globe) Boston 2024 to Meet at Franklin Park March 5 (Jamaica Plain Gazette) Here’s the Key Part of Boston’s New USOC Agreement (Boston.com) Push to Make “Boston” Games, “Commonwealth” Games (WWLP) #WorldCup

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

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

Boston 2024 Team Begins D.C. Push for Political Support (Boston Globe) Boston Olympics is Bad News for Massachusetts Governor (The Conversation) Many Doubt Benefits of 2024 Olympics (Somerville Community Access Television) Boston 2024: Olympics Plans Include Volleyball in Holyoke, Basketball in Springfield, Whitewater on Deerfield River (MassLive) Walkable, eh? Boston, for the Gold? (BostInno) For Walsh’s Chief of Staff, a Super Birthday Gift (Boston Globe) Marty’s CoS is dat

Charities Fear Donations Will Drop if Boston Hosts Olympics (Boston Globe) Boston Olympics: Economists See Negative Impact for Springfield (Masslive.com) Changes Likely in Boston’s Olympic Venue Plan (Boston Globe) But will we ever see the final plan before it gets submitted? Boston 2024 Olympic Bid Protects Itself from Financial Hit (Wall Street Journal) Olympic Stumbles (Worcester Telegram) “But even if one could overlook the logistical headaches and public costs and inconv