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• Editor’s Column: ’Tis the Season to Be Politically Minded

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  August 27, 2012

  I just spent a vacation in Virginia. The blaring, nonstop attacks of the candidates on each other were completely obnoxious. I couldn’t have been happier to return to Maryland, which is not considered a swing state in this election. During this season marked by expensive, negative and continuous campaign ads...

• Tower CEO Breland Named to NAFCU Board

  August 27, 2012

  NAFCU last week announced it had named Martin Breland, president/CEO of Tower Federal Credit Union, as Region II director on the NAFCU board of directors. Breland replaces retiring board member Charlie Thomas, who stepped down after his resignation as a member of the board of Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union.

• Advantis CU Picks Bob Corwin as CEO

  August 27, 2012

  Bob Corwin will become the new president and CEO of the $930 million Advantis Credit Union of Milwaukie, Ore. on Oct. 15, the credit union said.

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  CEO Pay: How Much Is Right?

  By Robert McGarvey  |  August 27, 2012

  Call CEO pay the credit union governance hot potato. “This is certainly an increasingly hot topic,” said attorney Michael Lozoff, chair of the credit union practice at Shutts and Bowen in Miami.

• Board’s Role Is Up For Debate

  By Robert McGarvey  |  August 20, 2012

  Governance questions may not get more visceral – who makes the biggest decisions at a credit union? The question is easy to ask, but for some, it can be bafflingly hard to answer.

• Letter: On LICUs Bankers Are Ludicrous

  August 20, 2012

  Banker opposition to NCUA’s LICU program is ludicrous. Why do I call it ludicrous? Because their opposition would have to step up several notches on the reasonableness scale to even come close to their normal anti-credit union position of hypocritical.

• Md. League Picks Staatz as Chairman

  August 20, 2012

  Rod Staatz, president/CEO of State Employees Credit Union of Maryland, has been elected chair of the executive committee of the Maryland and District of Columbia Credit Union Association.

• DeMarco Named CEO at Community Driven CU

  August 20, 2012

  Renee DeMarco has been named president/CEO of Community Driven Credit Union of Ypsilanti, Mich.

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  Election Year Political Support Prompts Industry Discord

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 20, 2012

  Credit union consultant, blogger and Capitol Hill veteran Marvin Umholtz said the nation’s growing political divide is apparent among credit union leaders and fuels comments he receives from his readers and colleagues.

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  CEOs’ Corner: Governance Takes More Than Passion

  By Eileen Courter  |  August 20, 2012

  Because credit union boards are members too, they know how they’re treated as members and what they expect from their financial institution. But at the same time, they need to be more savvy than the average member about what’s happening at the credit union.