In a July 28 Washington Post op-ed, School of Public Policy Professor John Rennie Short argued that a permanent island location should be established to host the Summer Olympic Games. He wrote that with the current hefty price tag and with thousands of residents being displaced by construction in host cities each time, holding the games in the same place every four years would save money and benefit residents. “Instead of investing billions of dollars for a new city every four years, we could create a permanent Olympics city, with facilities and athlete housing. Though any city could take this one, I’d …