By Mary Auestad Arnold

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

Debbie Woodson and Russell Morin recently took their bikes to work. They didn’t commute to Daytona Beach Community College Credit Union, though. They rode them to help them do their work of serving members.

By Lisa Hochgraf

Long, long ago, as the junior editor at a business magazine in Dane County, Wisc., I rang a good-sized bank to find out its asset size for a "biggest businesses" list we were creating. The CEO of the bank answered his phone, and I nearly fell out of my chair. Needless to say, he knew the answer to my question and I was well taken care of.

By Theresa Witham

Posted by Lisa Hochgraf

I never really thought about this before. But during CUES Director Development Seminar this week in Charleston, S.C., presenter John Oliver told attendees that credit unions work with a “raw material” just like any industrial company would.

By Lisa Hochgraf

Here in Charleston, S.C., today, at CUES Director Development Seminar, presenter John Oliver asked if any of the 92 directors in attendance (yes, 92!) had their pictures and bios on their credit union's Web site. President of Laurel Management Systems, Palm Desert, Calif., Oliver said he was in favor of doing this so that members know who is representing them.

Posted by Ron Jooss

I want give a huge shout-out to $1.7 billion/149,000-member HarborOne Credit Union in Brockton, Mass., which has been honored with a 2010 National Credit Union Foundation Wegner Award.

By Brad Garland

Posted by Christopher Stevenson

My wife and I have always had different perspectives on which major appliances we should purchase. When we bought out first home, I was pushing for something like this:

By Christopher Stevenson

I love to read upbeat news stories about credit unions that are succeeding by adhering closely to the traditions on which the movement was built. That's why I enjoyed reading this interview in the Winston-Salem Journal with Jack Braswell, president/CEO of Members Credit Union.