Survive and Thrive

Survive and Thrive

  • Summer 2019
    • Abortion in America: Then & Now
    • After the Shooting Stops
    • All In the Family (Business)
    • Behind America’s Hometown
    • Boston’s Bakers Rise to the Challenge
    • Crossing from North to South
    • Down and Dirty in Boston
    • Net-Zero from the Ground Up
    • Happy Paradox for Asian Americans
    • What’s up in Boston’s Hip-Hop
    • The Underserved and Climate Change
    • Repairing Right to Repair
    • The Silicone Sickness Movement
  • Summer 2018
    • Come Hear the New Queer
    • Re-crafting Beer Culture
    • Gun Doves To Hawks
    • Korean Culture Hits US
    • Overworked and Undernourished
    • Boston’s Independent Theaters
    • The Power of DNA and How We Use It
    • How Women Rank in College Sports
    • Transgender Athletes: Prejudice or Positivity?
    • Blockchain and Bitcoin Outlook
    • Weeded Out
    • Perception of Veganism
    • More Than a Headache
  • Summer 2017
    • Aging in Boston
    • Boston Hair Care: Diversity & Choice
    • Climate Change in New York City
    • Listening for a Cure
    • Helping Homeless Stay Healthy
    • Study & Deliver
    • The Tech Divide: Teachers vs. Students
    • Together to Stop Youth Violence
    • Pretty hurts: Behind the clean beauty revolution
  • Spring 2017
    • Psychology of feminism
    • Ready to Lead
    • Running in Heels
    • Single Moms: Struggles and Hopes
    • Trips and Treatment
    • Unspoken and Untreated
    • Working at 50+
    • Zero Waste, Infinite Impact
  • Spring 2016
    • Accommodating Transgender
    • All in: Indian Gaming
    • Alone with Food Allergies
    • A Way to Innocence
    • Facing Anti-Muslim Hatred
    • Millennials Move In
    • Our Bodies, Our Struggle
    • Robotics: On a Limb
    • Service Dogs: Fact & Fiction
    • Staying on Pointe
    • Surviving Intimate Trauma
    • Two Homelands, One Love
  • Spring 2015
    • Back to Basics: Holistic Health
    • Beauty Expectations of Black Women
    • Boston 2024 Olympics
    • #BostonFitnessFads
    • Boston Mindfulness
    • Ca$hing in on Cyber$ecurity
    • Exposing Local Anti-Semitism
    • Families Serving Time
    • Fueling the Future
    • Helping the Homeless
    • Heroin: Beyond the Addiction
    • Mobile Language Learning
    • Overdose Oversight
    • Regrowing NE’s Country Roots
    • Robots Among Us
    • Self-image: Beyond the Scale
    • Styling Beantown
    • Tackling Combat Sports
    • The Algorithm Revolution
    • Through Boston Teachers’ Eyes
    • Toxic Nails
    • Wanted: More Women Leaders
    • World-Class Boston?
  • Spring 2014
    • Big Effect of Small-time Football
    • Bike Friendly Boston
    • Birth: Au Naturale
    • Bottle Bill Battle
    • Coastal Conversion
    • Deportation: Brink of Separation
    • Gay, Young and Homeless
    • Girls, STEM and Startups
    • HIV Positive Outlook
    • Immigrant Women & Domestic Abuse
    • Lost at 18
    • Nutrition Literacy
    • Recycling: 1 Bin or 2?
    • Reviving the Written Word
    • Treating Sexual Assault Remotely
    • Vinyl’s Comeback?
  • Archive
    • Fall 2013
      • Big Data in Health Care
      • Helping the Hungry
      • Lost at 18
      • Rehabbing Urban Wildlife
      • Startup Beauties
      • Sustainable Action
    • Spring 2013
      • Asperger’s in Adulthood
      • Chinese Grad Student Boom
      • Community in CrossFit
      • Death by Rx
      • Degreed and Underemployed
      • Geek is Chic
      • Growing Up Muslim
      • Nitrogen Nightmare?
      • Pit Bull Perception
      • Preservin’ the Classics
      • Right to Learn?
      • U.S. Women Made in China
      • Unsolved Gun Violence
      • Young & Homeless
    • Fall 2012
      • Better Workspaces
      • Black Beauty?
      • Broke Not Broken
      • Cheering Challenges
      • Going Social
      • Rainbow Religion
      • Style in Boston
      • The Play State
      • The Sporting Epidemic

Boston 2024 Olympics

Support for the Boston2024 continues to waver.
In January 2015, the United States Olympic Committee awarded its 2024 Summer Olympics bid nomination to Boston.
Considered the underdog up against San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., Boston’s bid was led by a private non-profit organization called Boston2024.
In the months since this decision, Boston and Massachusetts residents have been engaged in conversations regarding all aspects of this bid from the political to the economic to its overall impact on the Boston community. Support for the bid started out strong and was followed by a rapid decline. As of April 2015, it stands at around 40 percent support.
While the Olympics often bring a sense of patriotism and pride to that city, it seems as though Boston residents have used those sentiments to rally against the bid. Boston2024 continues to move forward, up against a vocal organization called No Boston Olympics.  Major factors in the dissent include transportation, housing, economy, and legacy.
The Boston2024 committee, trying to regain public trust, announced in March 2015 that the City will place an Olympics referendum on the November 2016 ballot. If the group does not get majority approval by Boston and Massachusetts voters, they will abandon the bid, according to Boston2024 chairman John Fish.
Boston is currently up against Hamburg, Germany, Paris, France, and Rome, Italy.
In 2017, the International Olympic Committee will select its host city for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

 

 

Ensuring affordable housing past 2024

May 3, 2015 Kathryn Breen 0

Compared to other cities, Boston is behind with its affordable housing availability. Can Boston2024 help?

Boston asks if Olympics are worthwhile investment or five-ring circus?

May 3, 2015 Kathryn Breen 0

Boston2024 is having a tough time convincing residents that the long pattern of cost overruns will not affect the city if it hosts the Olympics.

Seeking to leave a lasting legacy

April 29, 2015 Kathryn Breen 0

Do the plans for the Boston 2024 Olympics bid overlap with the long-term goals for the city?

Transportation concerns slow down support

April 29, 2015 Kathryn Breen 0

After a 2015 winter filled with public transportation breakdowns and disruptions, Boston2024 is trying to convince residents that the MBTA is ready to host the Olympic Games.

About the Author

  • Kathryn Breen

    Kathryn Breen is a multimedia journalist in her final semester at Emerson College. She graduated from Boston College in 2012. Kathryn was an editorial assistant at the Boston Herald and interned with the social production department at ESPN in the summer of 2014. She loves the great outdoors, any type of dog, and the New York Yankees.

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