Hey! I may finally get to meet Lisa Furlong on Wednesday! The Legislature’s Initiative and Referendum Task Force meets this week Tuesday and Wednesday. While…
Tag: Amendment U
Victoria Lusk reports that payday lender Check’n Go is closing its doors next week, thanks to voters’ wise decision to cap short-term interest rates at 36%…
Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard just hammered a stake through the heart of the payday lenders’ big lie that Initiated Measure 21 is a liberal Obama-Clinton plot. After telling…
If you want to stop payday lenders from charging loan-shark rates, you want to vote Yes on 21, No on U. AP’s James Nord reports that the…
I expected the payday lenders to bomb our airwaves, billboards, and mailboxes with propaganda to trick the voters into voting No on Initiated Measure 21, the real…
…Silent on Payday Lending and Youth Minimum Wage The Brookings Area Chamber of Commerce has the cash to buy a big chunk of the local…
Sioux Falls Drinking Liberally host (and blog sponsor!) Sheldon Osborn says he doesn’t want to steal Nielson Brothers’ thunder, but he sends out this Friday meeting…
Initiated Measure 21 and Amendment U are inextricably linked. After Sioux Falls politicos Steve Hildebrand and Rev. Steve Hickey began circulating the petition for IM 21 to cap…
Trick or treat? That’s the choice voters have between Amendment U, the payday lenders’ decoy measure to write unlimited interest rates into our constitution, and Initiated…
Bread for the World says our ballot measures include some literal bread-and-butter issues. The anti-hunger group’s leader, Cathy Brechtelsbauer, has taken a leading role in…