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Dispatches from Massachusetts  

By Michael Quinlan Boston’s Revolutionary Irish Trail is Now Live With America 250 celebrations underway in 2026, Boston has a Revolutionary Irish Trail to chronicle Irish and Scots-Irish heroics in the American Revolution….

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Trailblazing CEO Maggie Timoney

2025 Business 100: Keynote Speaker Maggie Timoney is the President and CEO of HEINEKEN USA, based in White Plains, New York. During her 20-plus year tenure with the HEINEKEN Group in the U.S.,…

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Love of Country

When music legend Bruce Springsteen recorded his excellent 2007 “Live in Dublin” concert, it’s no…

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Report From Ground Zero : The Documentary

Dennis Smith’s gripping best-seller Report from Ground Zero will be the basis for a documentary…

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March 30, 1981

On this day in 1981, President Reagan was shot, only 69 days into the new administration. He–along with press secretary James Brady, Washington police officer Thomas Delahanty, and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy–was struck when would-be assassin, John Hinckley Jr., opened fire outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. Secret Service agent Jerry Par’s quick reflexes ultimately saved the President’s life. It was he who pushed Reagan into the limousine and out of Hinckley’s direct line of fire, and he again who changed route from the White House to the hospital, after realizing how badly Reagan had been injured.

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