Category Archives: Arizona

Arizona vote is in November

The November vote in Arizona is coming up. Here is what the ballot will look like based on Judy Hedding’s blog: Will you vote in favor of Proposition 200? Yes, we need to continue to offer these financing options to our citizens while more closely regulating the industry. People should be able to make their […]

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Arizona still polarized

Both sides make very good arguments. On one hand, it’s a tough world. On the other hand, people should have the freedom to choose. Stan Barnes makes some good arguments in this opinion in the Arizona Daily Star, especially this comment: “Every day it seems another self- appointed know-it-all with an ax to grind is […]

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Older post, but still relevant for Arizona

You can read the newspapers, but it’s hard to understand the underlying story, especially when it relates to politics and legislating. This blog post gives some pretty good insight to the ballot initiative in Arizona. It’s anti-payday lending, but it’s a good read.

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Payday Lenders Get on the Arizona Ballot

Arizonans for Financial Reform received its qualifying notice Friday. In order to make it onto the ballot, they needed 153,365 signatures. The payday loan industry is trying to remove a drop dead date of 2010 for payday loan reform. I guess it’s in the voters hands now. I wonder how it will display on the […]

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Are City Zoning Laws Becoming a Trend?

Not municipalities are getting involved in payday lending regulation. Casa Grande in Arizona is trying to change their zoning laws to limit payday loan stores to establish distance requirements for payday loan stores. The article also goes on to state, “the city cannot pass laws that would put an operation out of business just because […]

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The Deep Pockets of the Payday Loan Industry

The Arizona Republic wrote an article titled “Where the money comes from“. According to this article, payday lenders contributed $8.7m to campaign finance for the first half of 2008. The next largest donor was The Realtors Issues Mobilization Fund, which contributed a measely $1.4m. The alleged goal of the payday loan industry is eliminating a […]

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