Over at MassPoliticsProfs, Erin O’Brien inveighs against a Boston Olympics:
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A Boston Olympics Hurts Massachusetts
That’s right. Given the pattern of substantial cost overruns, and the state’s responsibility to meet the gap, as well as provide key loan guarantees, residents of Commonwealth are likely to be on the financial hook for an event that they neither get to go to nor materially benefit from. It’s no secret that a defining theme of Massachusetts politics--when one leaves Beantown--is that it is BOSTON …and then everyplace else.
