Politics

Top Mitt Romney surrogate and potential vice presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty came to Chick-fil-A’s defense during a Romney campaign event in Cary, North Carolina on Saturday, bragging to a small group of supporters that he ate lunch at the fast-food franchise, which refuses to offer any employment protections to LGBT employees and has donated millions of dollars to ex-gay ministries. Activists and lawmakers from across the country are protesting the company after its president condemned homosexuality in a recent radio interview. Conservatives have responded to the backlash by holding “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day” in support of the company. From the event: At an ice rink in Cary, NC Tim Pawlenty said he ate Chick-Fil-A for lunch “chicken strips and waffle fries.” — Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) July 28, 2012 TPaw, at NC event for Romney, says he had lunch at Chick-Fil-A today. “It’s chilling!” he says of cities objecting to biz over marriage — Carrie Dann (@CarrieNBCNews) July ...

Meteor, the company behind an application development framework of the same name, today announced $11.2 series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, with Matrix Partners also contributing. The investment follows Andreessen Horowitz’ record breaking $100 million investment in Github. The Meteor framework is free and open source and can be used for creating rich, Google Docs style applications in the browser. A preview was released last April. The company plans to monetize the product by selling enterprise support and services. Meteor was founded by ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis, MixApp co-founder Nick Martin and early Asana employee/MixApp co-founder Geoff Schmidt. David Greenspan, who co-founded AppJet (the company behind EtherPad) and went on to work on Google Wave, is another early employee. These are guys who know how to build richly interactive, real-time web apps. And they know painful it can be to develop modern, desktop-like apps for the browser. It takes a lot of work to b...

Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB) April 12, 2012 On Monday, April 9, 2012, the Minnesota Court of Appeals (No. A11-1492) issued an opinion affirming an arbitration award in favor of Minnesota based auto glass replacement company Rapid Glass and against Progressive Insurance. The court upheld a determination by an arbitrator that Progressive had underpaid Rapid Glass more than $ 150,000 for glass replacements. Progressive has lost multiple arbitration's over the last few years, as different arbitrators have concluded that Progressives glass reimbursement program does not satisfy the obligations contained in its insurance policies. The central issue at the arbitration leading up to this case was whether the charges submitted by Rapid Glass were fair, reasonable and competitive within the local industry at large. The arbitrator considered evidence presented by both sides regarding the factors to be considered in evaluating pricing, ultimately awarding Rapid Glass a total of $ 157...

Ashburn, VA (PRWEB) April 03, 2012 RE/MAX Select Properties, a Northern Virginia Real Estate Company, is gearing up for another successful year of contributing their time, money and resources to the communities in which they live and work. Soliciting a little extra help, in an out-of-the-box way, has already got them off to a great start in their efforts to donate food to the Loudoun Interfaith Relief program in 2012. Recently, RE/MAX Select Properties agent, Kyle Davis solicited the help of friend/extreme couponer, Lisa Schleffer of Ashburn, who used $ 90 in coupons to purchase a retail value of $ 245 worth of food to donate, a total of 225 pounds. In 2011, the office and its members donated over 6,000 pounds of food to this respected organization, which provides emergency food assistance to any person or family in need. This year, RE/MAX Select Properties is setting out to double last years donation and give 10,000 pounds of food to help those who rely on the program. ...