“The only peers we had were African American credit unions and they had grown at a rate of 500 new members per year,” said John Herrera, a senior vice president at Self Help Service Corp., a financial organization that provides community development …

After military service, he spent 6 years building quantitative analysis and risk management systems on Wall Street for companies such as Kidder Peabody, Paine Webber, and others. Driven by an … People here are educated and affluent. In Singapore, we …

It was former Connecticut Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. who famously described the state as the "Two Connecticuts," a reference to the dramatic disparities between some of this state's affluent suburbs and struggling cities. In many ways, the situation …

I doubt anyone does; I live in suburbia, surrounded by mildly affluent neighbors who subscribe to what I presume is their own cable service. But instead of trying to use my router to extend a free wireless network, wire up schools, coffee shops, and …

After waging months of battle against the Lower Colorado River Authority, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and, probably most significantly, the interests of the City of Austin and its adjacent affluent suburbs over water, Matagorda County …

OCSD provides wastewater treatment services to the northern and central portions of Orange County and about 80% of county residents. The district's affluent suburban service area provides a strong underlying economic basis for bond repayment. The …

Not just certain parts of women (say, their wombs or their boobs), or certain types of women (say, white, properly-behaved affluent women), but every part and every woman. Why? The Christianity with which I was raised (first Baptist, later Methodist …

Historically, the subjects of portraiture have been affluent or politically significant, generally older individuals. Gridley herself is a well-known artist whose portfolio includes the official portrait of former Vermont governor Jim Douglas, which …

Mission trips, where students reaped rewards in service to others, are ones Ingy fondly remembers. "We went to Eastern Kentucky several times, We ended up going to a tiny community called Nada, Ky. It had been a lumbering community early on, and just …