Daniel Mica: Consumers Are Moving Their Money to Credit Unions, Rising Membership Shows

Make a New Year’s resolution to move your money out of big banks? To that I say: Right on! Without question, financial consumers are angry at — and have lost their loyalty to — big banks. Late-night comics routinely make fun of the banks; there’s even a new iPhone app in which players try to stop “cash-hungry” bankers from wheedling more bailout money from the U.S. Treasury, according to a recent report in American Banker newspaper.

But if ..read more

Huff TV: Move Your Money: Arianna And Rob Johnson Explain How Moving Your Money Can Change The System

Arianna and Rob Johnson, director of the Economic Policy Initiative at the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, urged Americans to move their money to community banks during an appearance on the Ed Show with Ed Schultz on Wednesday.

Just last week, Arianna and Rob unveiled Move Your Money, a challenge to Americans fed up with too-big-to-fail banks. The initiative encourages account holders to withdraw their money from big, mismanaged banks and move the funds to smaller, better-managed community banks–institutions that are ..read more

Matt Holliday, Cardinals Reach Mega-Deal: Seven Years, $120 Million

The St. Louis Cardinals have agreed to a seven-year, $120 million deal with Matt Holliday, SI.com has learned. Holliday will also get a full no-trade clause.

The two sides had previously discussed a seven-year deal worth roughly $16 million per, but Holliday was seeking more annual money than Jason Bay recently received from the Mets in his four-year, $66 million contract.

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Fresno Consensus Concerns – KMPH Fox 26

“If I give this information will it lead to me being deported from this country, the answer to that is no.”  That’s the word from Henry Perea, one of Fresno County’s Board of Supervisors.  He wants everyone to know, if you get counted in the census, you become eligible for money from the federal government.

He adds ”Are you going to get a check in your mailbox?  No, you’re not going to see it that way. But you are going to see it ..read more

Palita Gbalajobi Fights Through Injury To Work

Palita Gbalajobi emigrated to the Untied States from Jamaica 11 years ago. Things were looking up, but a series of misfortunes left her injured and nearly blind. As part of The New York Times’ series on “The Neediest Cases,” Gbalajobi tells how she continues to work to be self-sufficient at age 70 despite her hardships.

From The New York Times:

more than anything, she wants to return to work. Though she is past the usual retirement age, she needs two more years ..read more

High Failure rate at USP – Solomon Star

There are concerns Solomon Islands Scholarship students at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji are failing at a high rate because of excessive socialising.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mylyn Kuve, has confirmed the failure rate of the students on government scholarships is a concern.

PF Net reported that the students have been offered extra lessons at the university, but many have not made use of them.

“Maybe due to the fact that a lot of our students ..read more

Adams: Christmas gifts for naughty and nice (Knoxville News Sentinel)

I finally completed my virtual Christmas shopping. And it was as easy as ever.

I didn’t get stuck in traffic. I didn’t spend any money. I didn’t have to deliver anything.

I just had to decide who should get what.

Les Miles: A cuckoo clock.

Rick Pitino: A moral compass.

Lane Kiffin: A Big Orange helicopter.

University of South Carolina : Gas pumps.

Lady Vols: A river walk in April.

Bruce Pearl: A sweaty April.

College replay officials: Vision.

Mountain West & WAC: A merger.

Service-academy football: Our respect.

Jimmie Johnson: ..read more

Laney: Paterno sees big pressure on coaches – 2TheAdvocate

ORLANDO, Fla. — At 45 years old, the stress of being a high-profile college coach got to Urban Meyer to the point where he had to temporarily step aside in the prime of his career.

At 83, Joe Paterno has never experienced that. He’s still going strong, still coaching 10-win football teams and he’s still busy on New Year’s Day.

When he met the media Thursday — his only media appearance in Orlando before Penn State’s Capital One Bowl game against LSU ..read more

Huff TV: Arianna Calls Out Kudlow For Dow ‘50,000′ Prediction, Urges People To Ditch Bailed Out Banks (VIDEO)

Arianna was on CNBC’s “The Call” today to discuss the Move Your Money campaign. Host Larry Kudlow challenged the idea of switching money from big banks to community banks. Arianna countered that she’s not sure why anyone is still listening to Kudlow, given his previous predictions that have turned out to be wildly off-base, including his statement in 1999, “By 2020, the Dow index will reach 50,000, and the 10,000 benchmark will be reduced to a small blip on ..read more

Candy Spelling in reality show – The Press Association

(UKPA) – 16 hours ago

Tori Spelling’s mother Candy is to feature on a reality TV show in which celebrities give away their money.

Candy – who is also producing a revival of Promises, Promises on Broadway, set to open in April – will star in E!’s Bank Of Hollywood, in which people make the case for requests.

Candy Spelling said the show was both an opportunity to help people and show the public the real her, saying: “I’d always been very shy because my ..read more