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ALBANY, N.Y. - For most people, the end of December meant the joy of holidays and expectations for the new year. But 2,400 Verizon employees statewide, 100 of whom are local, faced the holidays unemployed after being laid off by the communications company in mid-December due to a slow economy...

WASHINGTON-Though she may be a newcomer to CUNA, Linda Gualtieri is no stranger to Capitol Hill. The credit union trade organization has hired the legislative affairs and communications specialist as its new legislative affairs manager to replace Maura Hampton, who left the trade organization Dec. 20. Gualtieri is very familiar...

Pacific Service CU, Fresno, Calif., has donated $2,000 to the "Break the Barriers" program for kids. The program matches able-bodied children with disabled children and introduces them to the world of sports and arts. The program currently serves over 2,000 people each week, teaching gymnastics, martial arts, dance, sign language,...

SODUS, New York - WCTA Federal Credit Union has become the first financial institution in the NYCE Network to conduct a real-time, bill payment transaction with a debit card. The transaction, conducted by Becky Hulett, vice president of operations, enabled her to pay her Verizon telephone bill, by calling the...

ARLINGTON, Va. - NASCUS is planning by the end of January to turn over to NCUA Board Member Joanne Johnson a list of proposals on how the federal member business lending rule can be changed to provide all federally insured credit unions the same relief provided state-chartered credit unions operating...

WASHINGTON-House Financial Services Committee Members Bob Ney (R-Ohio) and Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), and Representative Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) will serve as featured guests on a panel during CUNA's Governmental Affairs Conference next month. Ney and Sherman will discuss how credit unions are perceived on Capitol Hill and how that should shape...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Over a dozen credit unions and close to 150 credit union contacts use Fraud-Net.com, a networking and communications effort sponsored by the Florida Bankers Association to help them thwart financial fraud, according to Rebecca Mccarley, media representative for the association. Fraud-Net.com's over 1,000 financial institutions log in...

Twenty-five years ago the Gulfport VA Medical Center had over 2,000 employees, volunteers and family members. It was one of the leading employers in my hometown. By the time I was selected president of the Gulfport VA Federal Credit Union in 1991, the medical center had been downsized to around...