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Boston 2024: Dispatch From High Up Mount Olympus
I’m up here on Mount Olympus to check in on the gods who are behind the effort to bring the 2024 Olympic games to Boston. The air is a little thin for those of us who are oxygen breathers, but the...
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Dear Boston 2024: Just Be Your Rich, Well-connected Selves
After their initial public relations effort was panned as the work of a secretive, hubristic cabal, the folks who want to bring the Olympics to Boston in 2024 have gone back to the huddle to plan a...
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Boston 2024: “Gullibility, What’s Your Policy?”
By now it’s clear to everybody that Boston 2024 is having a public relations crisis over its plan to bring the Olympics here. You’re having a public relations crisis when you need to reverse yourself...
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Boston 2024: If You Like the Marathon, Ipso Facto You Want the Olympics
Update, April 29: Representative William Straus, who sponsored the budget amendment referred to in this post (the amendment would have required the IOC to pay market rates for any outdoor advertising...
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Dear Shirley: On the Subject of Media Coverage of Boston 2024
[An open letter to Globe columnist Shirley Leung, in the spirit of her recent open letter to Red Sox Executive Larry Lucchino.] Dear Shirley: Just read your open letter to Larry Lucchino, in which you...
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Glass Half Full: State Senate on Olympics Financing
In its budget debate last week the Senate considered two amendments restricting public financial support for the 2024 Olympics. The Senators adopted one of the amendments on a voice vote and rejected...
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Get to Know your Olympic Corporate Overlords: A Quiz
The folks at Boston 2024 have released the names of their donors for the first quarter of the year. Many of these donors are very wealthy corporations that sometimes make the news. See how many Olympic...
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Boston 2024’s Guide to Poetry: Start with “Ode to Sport”
As the Globe reports today, Harvard was surprised to learn that Boston 2024’s original plans called for the university to play host to the tennis, water polo, field hockey, fencing and aquatics...
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