Health of our banks & credit unions, from Mar 2010

Here's how our banks and credit unions (ones that have branches here) rated on their Troubled Asset ratios in March, compared to each other and to the median bank and credit union values.

CitJ 101: Where to find bank TARP repayment info

An instructional post, whose local-news nut finding, possibly news to The Union readers (link) but not to Pelline readers (link), is that Nevada City's Citizens Bank did not pay its most recent quarterly TARP dividend on May 17. ("Citizens still is deferring TARP dividend payments to preserve capital" - JP*)