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…
Tag: Initiated Measure 21
While I was out campaigning over the weekend, one of my Aberdeen neighbors recognized me and said, “I’m not voting for you, Cory, but tell me about…
Race car driver and loan shark Scott Tucker and associates owe the Federal Trade Commission $1.27 billion for deceptive, predatory payday lending practices: In a…
“No on everything!” is often just an ignorant default position for voters too lazy to come up logical reasons for their positions on the ballot measures. In his Sunday…
Ignored in the Aberdeen American News report on yesterday’s District 3 Legislative candidate forum is the noteworthy agreement of five of the six candidates revealed in the…
Who showed up to speak in favor of unlimited interest rates for payday lenders last night? Nobody from the payday lending industry deigned to appear…
That Sioux Falls paper is quizzing online readers on what they know about the ballot measures. Their online quiz poses eight questions—one question covers both payday…
The payday lenders have not fooled the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. In its combo brief on Initiated Measure 21 (the real 36% payday…
Lisa Furlong and the peddlers of Amendment U, the fake 18% rate cap, have demonstrated their willingness to lie to block Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap.…
Miss South Dakota 1997 beat Miss South Dakota 1998 yesterday. After two days of courtroom combat between Secretary of State Shantel Krebs and her beauty…