Town officials sent a news release May 7 blasting a resident, John McDonough, by name for refusing to sign easements.

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In 2008, Senator Ted Kennedy brought John McDonough, a liberal advocate of the Massachusetts plan, to Washington to help with health-care reform.

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His predecessor, John McDonough, a diabetic whose leg had been amputated in 1999, spent nearly all of his time at executive headquarters in Beloit, Wis.

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Rocky Wirtz's rapid reinvention of the Blackhawks has largely been due to his decision to hire John McDonough as team president, a marketing guru who emerged from baseball's Chicago Cubs.

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Others in attendance at the briefing included National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan, Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough, White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, and John Holdren, the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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