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It is nice to read a publisher's column that is clearly not ghost written and always stimulating. Mike Welch's January 30th column was great. I recognized some of the culprits he described. On CUs themselves, I mentally benchmarked my credit union, Navy Federal. I think we pass muster. I would...

BOISE, Idaho - The Idaho Department of Finance is making available a free brochure to help consumers avoid mortgage pitfalls. The brochure-"Mortgage Loans"- that's being published in conjunction with Idaho Financial Literacy Month, is an effort to educate first-time homebuyers and homeowners who may be thinking about getting a second...

FORT WORTH, Texas - James "Jimmy" Dacus, credit union veteran for nearly 70 years, passed away Feb. 17. He was 90 years old. Dacus "discovered" credit unions during the Depression Era of the early 1930's. He helped form a credit union in Houston, and in October 1934 he traveled to...

WASHINGTON - NCUA Chairman Dennis Dollar unveiled a new initiative, called Access Across America, whereby the agency will continue to streamline the procedures through which credit unions can add underserved areas to their fields of membership and "partner" with other federal agencies to help make sure that credit unions are...

DAYTON, Ohio - Universal 1 CU was approved by the Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Financial Institutions to expand its field-of-membership to include the cities of Kettering, Huber Heights, Miami Township and Dayton in Montgomery County. Universal 1 currently serves the employees of over 800 companies in the U.S....

LATHAM, N.Y. - A 14-member group of representatives from the New York State Credit Union League and credit unions "Hiked the Hill" in Albany recently to advocate for sales tax exemption for state-chartered CUs and to urge authorization of credit union participation in the Excelsior Linked Deposit Program. The group...

WASHINGTON - In one of the latest Enron scandal fallout announcements, Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), ranking member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs urged the creation of an independent body to create accounting standards. Speaking at an oversight hearing on accounting and investor protection issues raised by...

WASHINGTON - Despite credit unions' claims that they serve all their members, there is no evidence that they are actually serving their low-income members and recent statements from credit union leaders make it appear the movement wants to forsake serving low-income people, said Malcolm Bush, President of the Chicago-based Woodstock...