Boston 2024

Coverage of the bid to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston

Boston Olympics? Yes!

Games could be a boon to city neighborhoods

By Barry Lawton Olympics 2024 1 Comment Mar 13, 2015

IT’S TIME TO get serious about a possible Boston Olympics – and to ensure that the benefits of such a global event are shared fairly with all. While there is a long way to go before a 2017 decision by the International Olympic Committee, the majority of Boston’s global competitors for the 2024 Summer Olympics(...)

Patrick’s Olympic pay: $7,500 per day

Boston 2024 releases salary information

By Gintautas Dumcius Deval Patrick, Olympics 2024 0 Comments Mar 9, 2015

STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE FORMER GOV. DEVAL PATRICK will be compensated $7,500 per day when he travels on behalf of the backers of a bid to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston, according to organizers. The privately funded organization – Boston 2024 – is also spending tens of thousands of dollars on a monthly(...)

Olympics once-in-a-century opportunity

Mayor says we are in this to win

By Martin Walsh Marty Walsh, Olympics 2024 0 Comments Mar 5, 2015

Remarks prepared for delivery to the Boston Municipal Research Bureau. As I said last month, this isn’t Loon Mountain, it’s the city of Boston. But with 100 inches of snow in 30 days, we could have opened up our own ski resort. In fact, I stand before you at the tail end—knock on wood—of the(...)

An elephant in the Olympics financing room

By Michael Jonas Municipal Government, Olympics 2024, Taxes and Budget Issues 0 Comments Feb 23, 2015

There has been all sorts of talk about the costs of a Boston Olympics, with elected officials left and right stamping their feet, drawing lines in the sand, and otherwise declaring with the utmost gravity and certainty that they will not allow the commitment of any public funds (other than those already planned for infrastructure(...)

Blizzard burying Olympics bid?

By Jack Sullivan MBTA, Olympics 2024, State Government, Transportation 0 Comments Feb 19, 2015

It’s easy to forget in the mind- and finger-numbing midst of Snowmaggedon about Boston’s 2024 Olympic bid – easy to forget, that is, if you don’t pay attention to everyone decrying the shape of the MBTA and what it will be like in eight years should millions of visitors from around the world descend on the(...)

The real Olympics debate

Games would be a statement about us

By Bettina Scholz Olympics 2024 1 Comment Feb 11, 2015

EVALUATING THE COSTS as well as the benefits of hosting the Olympic Games needs to extend beyond considerations of economic or infrastructure changes. We should talk also about an even larger ramification: For any city, why and how you run an Olympics is a statement to the world about who you are morally and ethically –(...)

Remember the Big Dig

Olympics bid shouldn’t hog scarce infrastructure dollars

By Timothy P. Murray 2 Comments Feb 10, 2015

AS THE SON of a history teacher, my father taught me early on that a strong appreciation of history is essential for understanding the issues and challenges of the present. President Harry Truman put it well when he said, “The only thing that is new in this world is the history that you don’t know.”(...)

Why I went from no to yes

Mayor’s backing was critical

By Conor Yunits Olympics 2024 2 Comments Feb 9, 2015

IN THE BEGINNING of 2014, I was one of the co-founders of No Boston Olympics, a group of volunteers formed to oppose Boston’s Olympic bid. By December I had left the group, and decided to support Boston’s bid. My friends and peers have jokingly wondered who got to me, or who bought me off. But(...)

Vaccines become campaign issue

By Bruce Mohl Elections, Media and Journalism, Taxes and Budget Issues 0 Comments Feb 3, 2015

The editorial pages of the Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal rarely agree on anything, but on Tuesday both newspapers criticized parents and politicians who think vaccines are potentially dangerous and should be voluntary. The issue has come to the fore with the recent outbreak of measles at Disneyland in California. Measles is a highly contagious(...)

How about a Gateway Cities Olympics?

Boston focus is far too narrow

By Ben Forman Gateway Cities, Olympics 2024 0 Comments Jan 30, 2015

EVEN NAYSAYERS BELIEVE the 2024 Olympic bid is a rare opportunity to generate fresh ideas about the future of the Commonwealth. For a productive conversation, a shared understanding of priorities is required. It will always be hard to generate consensus in a state with so much diversity, but if there is one issue on which(...)