SEATTLE - Don Rohacek, president/CEO of Credit Union Northwest remembers the morning of Feb. 28 when a frightening 6.8 magnitude earthquake jarred the city. Looking back nearly five months, he can laugh now at his naivete. At the time, Rohacek had been traveling down the rolling concrete floating bridge of...

Here are some of the ways intranets can benefit credit unions, according to Sarah White, author of "Intranets & Credit Unions," a new book now being offered by CUNA: *Helping credit unions maintain continuity and consistency of service to members. *Increase employee morale. *Saving managers time in responding to employee...

I recently attended a small credit union roundtable discussion entitled, "Cutting Expenses to the Bone." Earlynn Sheehan, president of $10.7 million Pacific Rails Credit Union, began the discussion by giving a presentation in which she told how her original sponsor moved out of town, forcing her credit union to look...

I was disappointed in the tone of Elaine Kingoff's June 20 story regarding the Louisiana League's state PAC fine, "Louisiana league's PAC fined by state board of ethics for violations." What started out as a reporting of the facts seemed to metamorphose into an indictment of league management. Even my...

Credit Union Times Publisher Mike Welch's recent D-Day column on his pet peeves (CU Times, June 6) sparked one of my own. We stopped referring to our many "branches" as such about a year ago. Just as we stopped calling our "tellerless" branches "Service Centers." Now we call them all...

The double spread testimonial advertisement in this issue, entitled, "Credit Union Times has covered NAFCU for 12 years," (on pages 62-63) highlights our ability to cover for our readers a multitude of important credit union educational conferences throughout the year. It is not unusual for most credit union publications to...

Here are typical staff profiles for an IT department at credit unions of three different sizes. These profiles are composites put together by CUES Tech Port based on results of its February 2001 Technology Staffing survey and conversations with subscribers to the CUES technology advisory service. Small - A $75...

ARVADA, Colo. - The Colorado Financial Services Board will hold a public hearing on July 13 to consider the application from Colorado Central Credit Union, Arvada, to expand its field-of-membership to include a geographic community. Colorado Central, the 17th largest state-chartered CU in the state, has almost 20,000 members. It...