Hold off on that trip to Pierre! I hear from Rev. Steve Hickey that the payday lender lawsuit to yank Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap, from our…
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The trial of the week takes place in Pierre Thursday and Friday, July 7 and 8, when Judge Mark Barnett hears the payday lenders’ latest…
In a genial and uncontroversial hearing at the Brown County Courthouse this morning, Joop Bollen, dressed in a thin grey polo shirt, well-worn blue jeans, and…
The Mid-Central/GEAR UP scandal is now bursting with lawsuits. Mid-Central Educational Cooperative is suing the American Indian Institute for Innovation for not fulfilling its contractual obligations and…
Secret rich people are attacking public education in Minnesota, suing the state over its teacher tenure and “last in, first out” teacher layoff policies. The plaintiffs, backed by…
Jason Glodt, owner of Marsy’s Law for South Dakota LLC and prime sponsor of Amendment S on South Dakota’s November, has been kind enough to provide…
Here’s the first bill of 2016 for Rep. Kristi Noem, Senator John Thune, and Senator Mike Rounds to oppose: H.R. 1927, the Fairness in Class…
The plaintiffs in the Poor Bear v. Jackson County lawsuit concerning equal voting rights for Indians said they wouldn’t back down. Now they have filed their…
Connor Byron Hanson is on trial for the January murder of Anthony Lee Gabriel of Sioux Falls. But don’t call Gabriel a “victim,” at least not during…
Mark Walker reports that Second Circuit Judge Doug Hoffman is trying to reduce overcrowding in the Minnehaha County jail and disruption in the lives of accused criminals by…