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…
Tag: Initiated Measure 21
I spoke too soon. Bradley Thuringer’s committee has placed this crazy flyer in South Dakota mailboxes to distract people from the need to cap interest rates…
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…
Al and the GOP take me out of context and make negative attacks, and what do I do? Make a video featuring Rep. Novstrup sounding…
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…
Evidently I haven’t messed up on the ballot measures! Grand Old Man of the South Dakota Blogosphere Douglas Wiken weighs in on our initiatives and referenda, and…
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…
Republican District 13 Senate candidate Jack Kolbeck has the courage to post his views on all ten ballot measures on his campaign website. I give kudos to any…
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…