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1 month ago | 
irishecho.com | John Horan |Peter J. McDermott
This year’s East Islip St. Patrick’s Day Parade, to be held on Sunday, March 2, marks the 60th anniversary of the famed Long Island parade.
Founded in 1966 by John P. Reilly, the Grand Marshal for this year’s 2025 milestone anniversary parade is Great River resident John Davis, who, like John P. Reilly, is a graduate of Fordham University.
John Davis retired in 2018 after 33 years with a large transportation company.
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | Jessica Abrahams |Michelle Francois |John Horan
February 3, 2025 Jessica Abrahams, Michelle Francois, John Horan, Dana Pashkoff, Asher Friedman Young Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 27, 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued an internal memo (M-25-13) directing federal agencies to temporarily pause all grant, loan or federal financial assistance programs implicated by President Donald Trump’s...
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Jessica Abrahams |Michelle Francois |John Horan
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council proposed revisions to the list of domestically nonavailabile articles under the Buy American Act that would reduce the current list by more than half, requiring federal contractors to potentially seek additional waivers for various imported articles moving forward.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jessica Abrahams |Michelle Francois |John Horan
On August 23, 2024, the U.S. Small Business Administration proposed key amendments to its regulations governing the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) Program, the Women-Owned Small Business program and Veteran Small Business Certification program. The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo providing requirements and guidance to federal agencies on the responsible acquisition and procurement of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jessica Abrahams |Michelle Francois |John Horan
On October 15, 2024, the Department of Defense (DoD or the Department) published a final rule to establish the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program. Although the Program will be implemented across four phases, the first phase will take effect on December 16, 2024.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thewesterlysun.com | John Horan
While Vice President Kamala Harris has made history by becoming the first woman of color to be the presidential nominee of one of the major parties, she has a second milestone that has gone unnoticed in the media: she is the second nominee of one of the two major parties to have been born in the era of rock ’n’ roll.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
heraldextra.com | John Horan
The buzz in Utah about the new National Hockey League franchise is that owner Ryan Smith, who made a most Herculean effort to successfully relocate the Arizona Coyotes to Utah, said several days ago on “The Pat McAfee Show” that the name of the team has been narrowed down to four possibilities. However, the most compelling statement about Utah’s entry into the NHL was made by the squad’s left wing Lawson Crouse who stated that the team is looking forward to “making history” in Utah.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
sandiegouniontribune.com | John Horan
Horan is a public relations strategist in Avon, Conn. and is the blogmaster of BeatlesHistorian.comThere is much media frenzy over the 60th anniversary of the famous debut of The Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb. 9, 1964, which launched Beatlemania in the U.S. as well as in other parts of the world. We are seeing countless clips of the famous 1964 show, as well as commentary. There are some backstories to the famed appearance with Ed Sullivan that will go unnoticed.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
medium.com | John Horan
A Meeting of EqualsThere's a lot of talk in Washington about equality, about egalitarianism, but you rarely see it. Except when you do. One short conversation between a black man living on the street and a white man living in luxury. "Hello, Joe.""Hey Clarence. You need anything?""No thanks. I'm cool."It was a cold night in January and I was newly arrived in Washington D.C. Like most newbies, I was worked day and night to claw my way up because that's expected. Or so I believed at the time.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Jessica Abrahams |Michelle Francois |John Horan
On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the admissions programs used by Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Department of Labor issued a regulatory overhaul of the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts (DBRA) to expand the definition of “prevailing wage” and more.
