http://payday-nofax.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:33:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Membership at federally insured credit unions across the country grew 1 percent to 88 million members, with savings outpacing lending in the first six months of 2008, according to the National Credit Union Administration. During that time, savings grew 7 percent. Lending grew 3.7 percent, and assets ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/credit-union-savings-outpace-lending/ Post Properties Inc. reported Tuesday evening it sold the Post Oglethorpe apartment community in the Brookhaven neighborhood of Atlanta for about $38.5 million. Atlanta-based Post Properties (NYSE: PPS) did not disclose the buyer. However, according to letters sent to Post Oglethorpe residents, the buyer is Memphis, Tenn.-based Mid-America Apartments LP, ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/post-oglethorpe-sold-to-mid-america-apartments/ Former Hawaiian Telcom CEO Mike Ruley has been named the chief executive of a Chicago-based Internet service provider. Sparkplug Inc. said Monday it has hired Ruley, who was fired from Hawaiian Telcom in February. The telephone company had posted more than $300 million in losses under Ruley, who was brought ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/ex-hawaiian-telcom-ceo-lands-job/ A decision on Hawaii Tourism Authority president and CEO Rex Johnson’e employment could be decided early this week. HTA Chairman Kelvin Bloom told PBN that the HTA hopes to resolve the issue “as quickly as possible. Certain decisions were made in executive session, but there is a process that must ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/hta-decision-on-its-ceo-expected-soon/ The McClatchy Co. is expected to announce a deal for its Real Cities Network early Thursday, ending months of rumors about the newspaper publisher selling the once-popular online network, according to a media report. Chicago-based Centro, an online media buying company that connects media agencies and newspapers, will likely announce ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/report-mcclatchy-to-shed-real-cities-network/ Home sales and median prices in the Twin Cities market continued to decline for the month of July, according to a report released Tuesday. Pending sales, however, increased slightly. Closed home sales for the month were down more than 8 percent, to 4,160 from July 2007, when there were 4,522 ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/july-homes-sales-prices-decline/ NFL player agent Mike Sullivan on Friday confirmed that he was fired by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, saying he received a termination letter Thursday. “Aaron has decided to go in a different direction as far as an agent,” said Sullivan, managing director of Octagon Football. “While I am ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/packers-rodgers-fires-agent/ Roadies swarmed the parking lots and sidewalks. Black-draped fencing lined the roads, helping to close off a two-block span of Sidney Street on Pittsburgh's South Side. And tents, stages and a buzz of activity have turned the SouthSide Works into a two-day compound of popular culture as American Eagle Outfitters ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/pittsburghs-south-side-hosts-new-american-music-union-festival/ If the technology startup world is about whom you know, the Gavin family sure has benefited from its contacts. Brothers Tim and Tom Gavin are not only former co-workers and current tech CEOs, but they have used their family ties to build two financial services software businesses by encouragement and ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/these-ceos-are-putting-brotherly-support-to-work/ The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded the West Kentucky Workforce Investment Board a $250,000 regional innovation grant to establish plans for promoting economic growth for an area consisting of nine counties in Western Kentucky and one in Tennessee. The grant will be implemented by the West Kentucky Workforce Investment ... http://payday-nofax.com/blog/west-kentucky-workforce-investment-board-receives-labor-grant/