Steve Hildebrand effectively waged war on the payday lenders in 2015 and 2016 with Initiated Measure 21, the 36% rate cap on payday loans. Now…
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Wait a minute—co-executive directors of the Democratic Party? In 1992, the South Dakota Democratic Party evidently had co-execs. Steering the party with Erpenbach was his…
Roger Cornelius mentions that corrupt Environmental Pillaging Agency chief Scott Pruitt bumbled into Josiah’s Coffeehouse in Sioux Falls yesterday. Josiah’s owner and former Obama advisor…
Sioux Falls/Las Vegas loan shark Chuck Brennan stayed mostly quiet during fight between rate-capping reformers and payday lenders on this year’s South Dakota ballot. The…
Steve Hildebrand gets to spike the ball. Unbowed and unbeaten by the vile and false attacks of his big-money opponents, the co-sponsor of Initiated Measure 21 celebrates…
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…
Backers of Initiated Measure 21, Initiated Measure 22, and Amendment T claim that the South Dakota Republican Party and the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce are coordinating…
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…
Shantel Krebs is on the radio right now—oops! she’s back in the office, so here’s today’s big petition news: the real 36% rate cap petition is in!…
Stu Whitney earns his pay for the week with his lengthy profile of alpha barista and payday-lender fighter Steve Hildebrand. Whitney reports that the intense fight for…