Local credit scores dropping (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Area consumers appear to be having a tougher time getting credit, an analysis conducted for The Enquirer has found. The shift is happening when some consumers are trying cash in on historically low mortgage rates while others are being forced to use credit cards to survive the recession. It's also occurring at the same that banks and other lenders are tightening lending standards.

Credit Solutions Empowers Clients To Achieve Popular Resolution: Get Out Of Debt (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

RICHARDSON, Texas----Getting out of debt is a top three New Year’s Resolution Credit Solutions debt consultants have heard for six years running. Fortunately, the company says, it has discovered a “debt relief formula” that really keeps the dollars off.

Season brings more than cheer (McKinney Courier-Gazette)

Yeah, I heard the message on our answering machine. But we'd received the same one before. I wasn't worried. No need to rush a return call. Hours later I phoned our credit card company, just to ease their over-protective, fraud-fearing minds.

Business Respect - CSR Dispatches No 144 - 5 Jan 2009 (Mallenbaker.net)

An email newsletter with news and discussion focusing on corporate social responsibility globally, looking at the companies in the news and the emerging issues.

Top 10 Scams of 2008 (WIFR Rockford)

The Rockford Better Business Bureau releases its list of the Top 10 Scams of last year.