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%…
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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…
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…
That Sioux Falls paper lost an open-records case yesterday. Last year, Division of Banking director Bret Afdahl reversed prior practice and declined to make public the…
South Dakota’s payday lender stooges continue to stonewall the press. South Dakota Public Broadcasting tries to get hold of Bradley Thuringer, chair of Rod Aycox’s astroturf “Give Us…
On Friday, investigators began showing up on the doorsteps of individuals who circulated petitions for Initiated Measure 21, the 36% rate cap on payday loans. Two Rapid City circulators…
Two South Dakotans who circulated the petition for Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap on payday loans that we get to vote on in…
The payday lenders’ failed lawsuit against Attorney General Marty Jackley’s official explanation of Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap, was evidently nothing personal. The same company…
In a minor defeat for the payday lenders, the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled unanimously today in favor of the Attorney General’s ballot explanation of…