Looking back five years ago finds South Dakota's three-man delegation of Senators Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Representative John Thune (R-SD) in a televised "polite standoff" of their positions on the "banker attacks" on credit unions. "Most (members of Congress) don't see this as a choice between...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Deluxe Corp.'s printing facility in Salt Lake City received the 2001 Excellence in Lean Manufacturing Award from the Utah Manufacturing Extension Partnership. The award recognizes the company's achievements in quality, service and cost management. The Lean Manufacturing philosophy focuses on eliminateing waste and continuously improving activities...

WASHINGTON - CUNA President and CEO Dan Mica and NAFCU President and CEO Fred Becker will carry the credit union message to a summit of the nation's political, congressional, business and financial leaders that will include Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan. Mica and Becker will be delegates at the...

WATERTOWN, Conn. - Credit union vendors and trade associations have jumped on the Webinar bandwagon, but so have credit unions. Greater Watertown Federal Credit Union union will offer its members a free online training session on how to use Internet banking. The program will be presented by the CU's CEO,...

PHOENIX, Ariz. - The $1.5 billion Desert Schools FCU is utilizing the new Voice-over ATM and Inverse Multiplexing solution developed by Cisco to more efficiently utilize communication links between its operations center and 18 remote branch locations, and for network and e-com enhancements. Calence, Tempe, Ariz., will provide LAN/WAN network...

South Carolina Federal Credit Union, Charleston, has donated a total of $55,288 to the United Way. SCFCU made a corporate contribution of $11,500; employees raised the remaining $43,788. Employees increased their giving by 10% over last year and 100% of the employees contributed this year. METRO Credit Union, Warren, Mich.,...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - John Merlo, president/CEO of Premier America CU was elected chairman of the board of CU Direct Corp. Merlo has served as a board director since September 1998 and was chairman/treasurer until June 2000, at which time he became vice chairman. Diana Dykstra, president/CEO of Vandenberg FCU,...

RICHARDSON, Texas - Texans Credit Union, the fifth largest credit union in the state, filed two applications with the Credit Union Division that will expand the $1.1 billion credit union's potential field-of-membership by more than a million people. In the first application, Texans applied to add Travis and Williamson counties,...