Eric Wilbur reports that 100 of our Most Important People held soirees at the MIT Media Lab and the Gardner yesterday to convince the US Olympic Committee that Boston's the best place to hold the 2024 Olympics.
What? You didn't know? No, of course not, you don't think they'd want you to know, do you? He reminds us about the promises of public meetings on the Olympics bid. You know, the public meetings that never got held. Maybe they're afraid Louise Day Hicks will rise from the grave and do what she did to the 1976 World's Fair proposal.
Meanwhile, the Dorchester Reporter talks with people who own companies in Widett Circle, where the Masters of the Massachusetts Universe want to put an Olympic Stadium. Seems the companies all own their own property, they employ 700 people in that supposed no-man's land and they don't want to sell or move. Eminent domain, anyone?