Maryland challenges online payday lender owned by tribal member

By Amy Biegelsen

Western Sky Financial’s website features a logo with three teepees and a toll-free number for customers to apply for an overnight loan. A no

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"… laim sovereign immunity.A new exchange between Maryland regulators and the South Dakota-based Western Sky has opened the latest front in the sticky legal question …"

"… protected. Further, Maryland argues, Western Sky is incorporated with the South Dakota Secretary of State, so the tribe did not create the business.Both West Vir …"

IMPACT: In Philadelphia, plea for safer alternative at refinery

By Jim Morris

IMPACT: No harm from clouds of toxic acid, refiner says — to skepticism

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"… n HF. The $10 billion refinery will cover some 2,000 acres in southeastern South Dakota.Bukowski nonetheless argued that the technology is unproven and said Sunoc …"

The politics of energy: Oil and gas

By Kevin Bogardus

WASHINGTON, December 15, 2003 — The sweeping energy bill now pending in Congress offers a geyser of new tax breaks and other government good

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"… ions expanding the ethanol program—which is big business for Daschle’s South Dakota constituents—blasted DeLay and other House Republican leaders for not re …"

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Newt Gingrich faces questions about consulting job and support for biofuels

By John Aloysius Farrell

Gingrich takes consulting fee from ethanol while getting big fossil fuel donations

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"… nergy was founded in late 2008 by the world’s top ethanol producer—the South Dakota based POET group—and other fuel companies to promote the use of the alte …"

"… l.Gingrich supported ethanol as Speaker. In March 2009, at a POET event in South Dakota, he boasted that he and Nussle had “helped save ethanol” from those in …"

Telehealth bill aims to expand health IT access for home care providers

By Kimberly Leonard and Josh Israel

A proposed new Senate bill would give home care providers in rural areas access to Medicare payments for audio and video home monitoring. ..

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"… going nowhere in three recent sessions of Congress.Sponsors John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, and Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, hope the fourth try w …"

Tally of interests on climate bill tops a thousand

By Marianne Lavelle

More than 460 new businesses and interest groups jumped into lobbying Congress on global warming in the weeks before the House neared its hi

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"… 007 POET overtook agricultural giant and longtime industry standard-bearer Archer Daniels Midland as the nation’s leading ethanol producer, and its first foray into lobby …"

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The curious spending of Republicans for Choice

By Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta

Wharton Professor Yoram “Jerry” Wind calls himself a liberal Republican. Unhappy with what he considers far-right positions taken by his par

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"… heir suggestion, she said, she has emphasized state battles, such the 2008 South Dakota abortion ban ballot initiative. But a number of longtime donors contacted …"

Harry Reid: In the clearing stands a boxer

By Josh Israel, Aaron Mehta and Caitlin Ginley

Senate Majority Leader Reid

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"… s close friend and predecessor as Senate Democratic Leader, Tom Daschle of South Dakota. As a lobbyist, Lewis worked for a wide range of clients including Delta A …"

Fighting crime with computers in Minnesota

By G.W. Schulz

The state of Minnesota’s unique privacy laws predate even the federal Privacy Act of 1974. They’re designed to protect sensitive personal in

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"… ated after 9/11. Authorities in the neighboring states of North Dakota and South Dakota are regional allies in the venture.Private corporations even contribute …"

Assessing RNC police tactics, part I

By G.W. Schulz

Intelligence-led policing played a starring role in 2008's Republican National Convention, and eight political activists stand accused of co

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"… nt recipients.”Elsewhere, fusion centers in Iowa, Tennessee, Oregon, and South Dakota supplied Minnesota authorities with driver’s license photos and criminal …"

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