EVAN FALCHUK, WHO waged a spirited run last year as an independent candidate for governor, is back in campaign mode, hoping to drive a statewide ballot question that would forbid spending taxpayer funds for a Boston 2024 Summer Olympics. This week, Falchuk formally registered People’s Vote Olympics Committee to raise money for a 2016 statewide […]
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Olympics numbers don’t add up
BOSTON MAYOR MARTY WALSH and representatives of Boston 2024 have made claims about levels of public support for the idea of a Boston Olympics that are not supported by the numbers. Here are a few: Boston 2024 President Dan O’Connell said on WGBH’s Greater Boston, “I’ve sensed […] overwhelming support for pursuing this effort.” O’Connell […]
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A vision for a Boston Olympics
BOSTON’S OLYMPIC BOOSTERS on Wednesday performed a rerun for the media of their winning US Olympic Committee presentation, emphasizing the close proximity of venues inside the capital city and the opportunity for the Games to bring jobs and future economic growth to the area. Dan O’Connell, the president of Boston 2024, said the Olympics would […]
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Walsh’s Boston Olympics hot potato
What a difference a day makes. In 24 little hours, the prospects for a Boston Olympics have gone from full steam ahead to dubious if put to a vote. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh told The Wall Street Journal that he would not “stand in the way” of a referendum on bringing the 2024 Olympic Summer […]
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Olympics fact vs. fiction
Thank goodness Boston 2024 is going to start releasing details of its bid for the 2024 Olympics this week because reporters are starting to fill in the blanks on their own and it’s getting hard to tell fact from fiction. Case in point: During the broadcast of the Patriots-Colts game Sunday night, CBS announcer Jim […]
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Romney, Boston 2024, and the White House
Can Boston host an event that’s the equivalent of “20 Super Bowls at once?” Mitt Romney thought so two years ago. Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston 2024 chairman Dan O’Connell told the Boston Herald this week that they would dearly love to have Romney sign on as the city’s key Olympic advisor. But how does the city […]
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Olympics a regional effort
AS ORGANIZERS AND community leaders work to put together an Olympics bid for metro Boston we need to cast our thoughts to 2124, not 2024. I support bringing the Olympics to Boston. If done right I believe it could create an opportunity to deliver civic benefits to our region. We should not be planning to […]
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2024 Olympics campaign begins
BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT leaders on Friday launched what appears to be a very sophisticated campaign to win support for Boston playing host to the Summer Olympics in 2024. A day after the US Olympic Committee chose Boston as its 2024 candidate over Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, business and government officials met with […]