Mass. Senate Leader Says Taxpayers Won't Fund Olympic Bid
A top state lawmaker said Tuesday he expects the Legislature and Gov. Charlie Baker to take a firm stand against any taxpayer funding for Boston's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
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A top state lawmaker said Tuesday he expects the Legislature and Gov. Charlie Baker to take a firm stand against any taxpayer funding for Boston's bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Walsh used the bulk of his annual address before the Boston Municipal Research Bureau on Wednesday to tout the benefits of the Olympic proposal.
The new president of the Massachusetts Senate said he wants to bring in experts to make sure Bay State taxpayers are not footing the bill if Boston is chosen to host the Summer Olympics in 2024.
Former Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Richard Davey has been named to head the organization leading the drive to bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston.
Opponents of bringing the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston are weighing a voter referendum.
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The organizers of Boston's Olympic bid unveiled their plans for the 2024 Summer Games on Wednesday.
Boston residents will get their first chance on Wednesday to see how Olympic planners would handle the 2024 Summer Games if they come to the city.
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh says he opposes putting the city's 2024 Olympics bid before voters.
There is no debate over whether or not Boston is a "world-class" city, whatever that means.
When it comes to the budget and promises of economic payoff, Professor Zimbalist says organizers are way off base.
Boston 2024 chairman John Fish said he is recusing himself and Suffolk Construction from potential Olympic-related projects.
Olympic historian David Wallechinsky said that if Paris chooses to enter the bidding, the city will be a favorite to win the Games.
Interestingly and controversially, there hasn't been one public hearing on the proposal yet.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh sat down with WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller for Sunday's Keller @ Large to reflect on his first year in office.
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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh says the city "put on a strong show" in its bid for the 2024 Olympics.
Mayor Marty Walsh says hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics could do wonders for public transportation, infrastructure and tourism, but he's also concerned about how the city would pay for it.
Boston would have to build from scratch a new Olympic stadium, velodrome, aquatics center and Olympic Village, the activists, called No Boston Olympics, wrote in a letter.
A group working bring the 2024 Summer Olympics to Boston honored dozens of other current and former Massachusetts Olympians and Paralympians at an event Monday night at a sports bar near Fenway Park.
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The NHL and its owners are being disingenuous, hypocritical and downright blind if they think the league doesn't benefit from having its players in the Olympics.
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Jaylen Brown had 29 points and Payton Pritchard scored 24 points to help the Boston Celtics beat the Miami Heat 98-96 on Friday night.
The Pentagon says it will cut ties with Harvard University, ending graduate-level military training, fellowship and certificate programs.
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The Pentagon says it will cut ties with Harvard University, ending graduate-level military training, fellowship and certificate programs.
There's a new drug that can help early morning shift workers stay awake and alert, a study out of Boston found.
As millions of Americans struggle with paying for health care, doctors and health experts discuss how medical care is being eroded by insurers denying necessary tests and treatment, making it "more difficult to be healthy in the United States."
Flu cases are rising rapidly, especially among kids in Boston, where hospitalizations of children under five have increased 150% over the last two weeks.
Four children have died from the flu in Massachusetts so far this season, public health officials say.
Fewer people in Massachusetts are getting their seasonal flu and COVID vaccinations as the number of respiratory infections in the state continues to rise.
After I-Team reports about a Foxboro woman's frustration with her GE gas range, the company has agreed to give her a refund.
It took Aaron Braun years to get more than 93,000 Dunkin' rewards points, but after a policy change he's left with a fraction of that.
In the last three years, the Better Business Bureau has received thousands of complaints about GE.
A home baker from Foxboro, Massachusetts is frustrated that the pricy oven she bought from GE wasn't working properly. Attempts to fix it failed.
Eight states have laws making police body cameras mandatory. Massachusetts isn't one of them.
Both the Trump and Healey administrations are using government websites to blame each other for the shutdown.
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Seth Moulton said he's running against Sen. Ed Markey because "our party leaders are clinging to that old playbook."
Maine Governor Janet Mills' run for Senate comes with an unusual promise - she will only serve one six-year term.
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Panera, Zipcar and Thermo Fisher are all closing facilities or offices in Massachusetts.
Cape Cod potato chips will no longer be made on Cape Cod as of this spring.
Time Out Market Boston, a food hall that opened in the Fenway neighborhood in 2019, won't be closing after all.
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James Beard-nominated pastry chef and co-founder of Bakey in Boston gives insight on how to make his world-famous babka.
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Jayson Tatum is not ready to come back yet this season, Boston Celtics president Brad Stevens said Friday.
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Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford topped Patriots rising star Drake Maye in the MVP voting.
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A tegu lizard was found buried beneath the snow in Providence, Rhode Island.
A gathering of North Atlantic right whales off Massachusetts over the weekend appears to have set a new monthly record.
A rocketship on a downtown Boston roof is part of the new Winteractive 2026 public art installation.
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