[Disclosure: South Dakota Farmers Union will likely pay me to circulate the petition for the initiated constitutional amendment we’re about to discuss. I would respond to…
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Saturday I reported that Lisa Furlong of North Sioux City has created a ballot question committee, South Dakotans for Fair Lending, whose stated mission sounds…
Steve Hildebrand helped Barack Obama win the Presidency in 2008. But he tells Kevin Woster that capping interest rates to check predatory lenders in South Dakota…
The Legislative Research Council has produced the fiscal impact statements required for Consistent South Dakota’s ballot initiatives to outlaw the transfer of tobacco and alcoholic…
The usury industry appears to be mobilizing more resources to fight the proposed ballot initiative to cap interest rates at 36% and box predatory payday lenders out…
We may have four 2016 ballot measures addressing South Dakota’s stance on marijuana. New Approach South Dakota is hustling for signatures on its medical cannabis initiative.…
A couple weeks ago, Erin Ageton, VP of title-lender Select Management Resources, sued to delay Steve Hildebrand’s and Steve Hickey’s proposed ballot initiative to cap interest rates at…
Sixth Circuit Judge Kathleen Trandahl has rejected Erin Ageton’s lawsuit against Attorney General Marty Jackley for what she called an incomplete explanation of the proposed ballot…
As we breathlessly await Monday’s court hearing in the dilatory lawsuit one payday lender has filed to block the interest-rate-cap ballot initiative, let’s keep in mind this example of the sleaziness…
Erin Ageton, vice-president of operations for predatory short-term title lender Select Management Resources, filed suit on June 5 in Sixth Circuit Court to delay circulation of the payday-lending…