THE 'tude

Here’s a proposal if you’re finding your CU passion isn’t quite what it once was, your cooperative pilot light is flickering, or your copy of “The Poor Man’s Prayer” is getting a wee bit dusty—attend the African American Credit Union Coalition’s annual meeting.

It’s been 46 years since the actor Peter Finch, playing the crazed news anchor Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network announced, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!”

A number of larger credit unions have in recent months announced various fee reductions, especially around overdrafts.

Must be the high season for letters of recommendation, those succinct summaries of superlatives for men and women of distinction.  This time around the injured party is Maurice Ravelle Smith.