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END GAMES: PUT THIS IN YOUR BOSTON 2024 TIME CAPSULE AND CHOKE ON IT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 28, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The mayor saved Bostonians from a Summer Games budget-fuck no more than someone who arranges for a kidnapping and then pays the ransom rescued a missing child.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston 2024, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, CommonWealth Magazine, Conor Yunits, construction, cost overruns, Howie Carr, International Olympic Committee, IOC, John Fish, mayor Marty Walsh, Steve Pagliuca, United States Olympic Committee, USOC, Widett Circle

GFY USOC: THE VERY BEST OF DIGBOSTON’S OLYMPIC TROLLING

Written by DIG STAFF Posted July 27, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

As the hipster paper of record in this town, we couldn’t be any happier to say, “We despised that band before they even dropped their first shitty single.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: atlanta, Boston, Boston 2024, Chris Faraone, criticism, DigBoston, Emily Hopkins, gentrification, host agreement, IOC, John Fish, Marty Walsh, No Boston Olympics, Olympics, Steve Pagliuca, USOC

EYES WIDETT SHUT: HOW THE CITY HOLDS THE KEYSTONE FOR BOSTON 2024’S OLYMPIC STADIUM PLANS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted July 14, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Menino hoped to keep the racks of ribs and crates of seafood fresh from the Atlantic overflowing in the heart of Boston forever.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 121A, Amtrak, Bob Kraft, Boston 2024, Boston Redevelopment Authority, BRA, City of Boston, food packing, John Fish, Marty Walsh, MBTA, New Boston Food Market, New England Patriots, Newmarket, Olympics, Shirley Kressel, tax breaks, Tom Menino, Widett Circle

BOSTON 2024 PR GAMES: NOT INTERESTED

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted July 6, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical

Before long, it became clear that the event organizers were unwilling to turn any meaningful authority over to members of the public.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical Tagged With: Boston 2024, community meeting, John Fish, lies, Marty Walsh, Olympics, PR, public relations, Steve Pagliuca, USOC

BOSTON 2024: VERSION NUMBER TWO

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted June 30, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Dispatch from the most exhausting week in Olympic history

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston 2024, Boston Olympics, boston university, Columbia Point, harvard, John Fish, mayor Marty Walsh, MIT, Olympics, plans, protesters, Richard Davey, Steve Pagliuca, UMASS-Boston, Version 2.0

DEAR BOSTON MEDIA: PLEASE STEAL THIS ARTICLE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted April 9, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

From the Olympics to police brutality, the Hub reporters should piggyback more independent research and ideas

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Anchorman, bay state examiner, Bay Windows, Big Brother, Blackstonian, Boston 2024, Boston Globe, Boston Media, Boston Olympics, Boston Phoenix, Charter Schools, Deval Patrick, Dorchester Reporter, Eileen Donoghue, John Fish, Open Media Boston, police brutality, reporting, Ron Burgundy, SOMERVILLE, surveillance, William Coyne

THE BOSTON 2024 COMMUNITY MEETING DRINKING GAME

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 18, 2015 Filed Under: Lulz

Image by Kent Buckley

 

Our attorney made us promise to stress that this is only a joke, and that people shouldn’t really get stoned and polluted inside the various family environments where Boston 2024 and Mayor Marty Walsh are hosting their next open meetings. Nevertheless, as the Hub’s ...  read more

Filed Under: Lulz Tagged With: #Boston2024, Boston 2024, Boston Olympics, Drinking Game, IOC, John Fish, No Boston Olympics, USOC

WILL THE BOSTON CITY COUNCIL SHIELD US FROM THE OLYMPICS?

Written by BOSTON BASTARD Posted March 9, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The Boston City Council dove into the 2024 Olympics pool last week when it hosted the first hearing of the body’s special new committee on the Games ...

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Bill Linehan, Boston 2024, Boston City Council, Charles Yancey, Frank Baker, John Fish, Mark Ciommo, Matt O'Malley, mayor Marty Walsh, michelle wu, Olympics

IS BOSTON 2024 TAKING SEX TRAFFICKING SERIOUSLY ENOUGH?

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted March 4, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston 2024 is too caught up in land grabbing and its media relations spin campaign to realize the potential problem.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #Boston2024, Boston 2024, Dr. Edmund Schluessel, IOC, John Fish, National Union of Students, Olympics, prostitutes, Sex Trafficking, Super Bowl

JOHN FISH, THE OLYMPICS, AND TROY FROM ‘THE GOONIES’

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 3, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Having covered gentrification from East Berkeley Street for 11 years, I’d be derelict in my duty to wage class war if I ignored the pressure that development exerts on the media.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston 2024, DigBoston, East Berkeley Street, John Fish, south end, Suffolk Construction, The Goonies, Troy

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