The Farm Bill authorizes funding for a variety of agriculture and nutrition programs that support Arizona families and farmers. “While this bill is not a perfect agreement, it is the result of both sides coming together to provide certainty for Arizona farmers and families.” This agreement also restores most of the $40 billion in cuts initially proposed to…
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BrightSpot Solutions ®, LLC, developer of the Spotless Swing Golf Towel, has announced that their towels were used by multiple professionals at the Farmers Insurance Open including two top ten finishers. The event was held at Torrey Pines in La Jolla, CA, January 23-26, 2014. Recent Masters and US Open winners have been carrying the premium towels as well as…
Jan. 30– COLUMBIA, S.C.– THE YEAR was 1994, and South Carolina had acquired a well-earned reputation as the nation’s dump, hosting massive nuclear and hazardous waste landfills and a medical-waste incinerator that accepted waste from around the country, when the DHEC board did something extraordinary: It ordered Laidlaw Environmental Systems to post a $133…
Cheri Bustos, D- Ill., issued the following news release:. Today, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, supported passage of the first bipartisan, five-year Farm Bill since 2008. In 2012, Congress failed to pass a five-year Farm Bill, so instead a short-term extension was passed which expired last year. The bill contains an…
Assembly Republican Leader Connie Conway, of Tulare, and Assemblyman Brian Nestande, R- Palm Desert, today sent a letter to the chairs of the Assembly Health Committee and the Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee asking for a joint hearing to review Covered California’s hiring practices. Allowing these individuals to have access to…
Forex Nitty Gritty, a training program that not only claims to teach people the knack of trading Forex successfully, but also help them discover Bill’ s powerful‘ Exit Strategy’, one that prevents so many potential winning trades losing out at the last possible moment, has caught the attention of ForexVestor.com’ s Stan Stevenson, prompting an investigative…
The former Wichita State University and Bowling Green University strong safety was last month named president of Chapple Insurance Group, a locally based property and casualty insurance brokerage with 36 employees in Kansas, Florida, Oklahoma and Colorado. I have always been in the construction industry, from working for a Fortune 250 company in the…
Arkansas Best Corporation today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year 2013 that reflected solidly improved profitability at ABF Freight System, Inc., Panther Expedited Services and revenue growth at Arkansas Best’s other emerging, non-asset based businesses. Arkansas Best’s 2013 revenue was $2.3 billion, an increase of 11% compared to $2. 1…
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30– United Services Automobile Association, San Antonio, Texas, has been assigned a patent developed by Joseph Alfred Kazenas, Boerne, Texas, for a “system and method for providing financial products for a deductible portion of an insurance policy.” The patent application was filed on July 10, 2009. Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand.
The April 2010 fatal explosion and fire at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, Washington was caused by damage to the heat exchanger, a mechanism known as “high temperature hydrogen attack” or HTHA, which severely cracked and weakened carbon steel tubing leading to a rupture, according to a CSB draft report released today. The draft report makes far-reaching…
The Heartland Institute issued the following news release:. The following statements reacting to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night from staff, fellows, and policy advisors at The Heartland Institute- a free-market think tank- may be used for attribution. Taking credit for things he’s done so much to prevent, the repetitive…
The Insurance Information Institute issued the following news release:. Defense may win championships but a Super Bowl party host’s game plan must include designated drivers, according to theInsurance Information Institute. In addition, nine states have had court rulings holding a non-commercial server of alcoholic beverages liable for damages caused…
Jan. 30– TRENTON– Gov. Christie is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a six-month extension of housing assistance to help pay the costs of 81 families displaced by Sandy who are still living either at Fort Monmouth or in mobile homes provided by the government. Bill Pascrell Jr. and Frank Pallone asked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban…
Ray Gunder, owner of a Lakeland, Florida auto repair center, has become a leader in the auto repair industry and is a guest speaker at many industry seminars and conventions throughout the United States. Gunder recently returned from Michigan and will be speaking again in April in Mississippi at the Southern Automotive Repair Conference on topics such as…
Mothers Against Drunk Driving Colorado kicked off its first annual Colorado Springs Walk Like MADD event during an afternoon of bowling to “STRIKE out drunk driving.” According to a release, MADD supporters, volunteers, and community partners bowled to raise awareness and funds to keep Colorado communities safe. The 2014 Colorado Springs Walk Like MADD is…
Choate, Hall& Stewart announced it recently represented Maxcess International, a portfolio company of Windjammer Capital Investors and Merifin Capital, in its sale to Bertram Capital. In a release, the Firm said Maxcess, an Oklahoma- based global provider of automation instrumentation solutions and systems utilized in complex continuous web-fed…
The outlook is based on A.M. Best’s expectation that the company will maintain its strong capitalization and operating performance. Ocean Re focuses on reinsurance and offers a diversified product mix in several countries throughout Latin America. A.M. Best anticipates that Ocean Re will continue to report profitable underwriting results and will…
In a release on Jan. 27, Proxibid said total online sales increased 26 percent in the fourth quarter 2013 over the same period in 2012.. “Proxibid continues to provide the most trusted online destination for buyers and sellers for making high-dollar transactions,” said Ryan Downs, President and CEO of Proxibid. “Our December 12 sale had record results on Proxibid,”…
According to a release, when administrators of its Kentucky Employee Health Plan discovered that nearly 80 percent of plan costs were associated with chronic diseases, the Commonwealth turned to its health partner- Humana, a health and well-being company- to find a solution. Humana and KEHP noted they designed the LivingWell Promise to pair with KEHP’s…
