by Betsy Sundquist
Published: March 5, 2010
Tags: Jim Davnie, payday lending
Ron Elwood knows what it’s like to tilt at windmills. And for the third straight year, Elwood, an attorney for the Legal Services Advocacy Project in St. Paul, is tilting at a very large, well-funded windmill known as the payday loan industry.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: March 5, 2010
Tags: Jim Davnie, payday lending, Ron Elwood
A House committee this morning approved a bill that would close a loophole in state law that allows three payday lending companies to operate under rules other than those specifically written to govern the industry.
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: March 5, 2010
Tags: Cy Thao, Jim Davnie, Tim Mahoney
Members of the House Labor and Consumer Protection Division this morning marked their last meeting of the biennium with cookies and milk.
by Charley Shaw
Published: February 10, 2010
Tags: Ann Lenczewski, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Jim Davnie, Joel Michael, Tim Mahoney
The recession-spawned push to draw more business investment to Minnesota has led state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to craft proposals for giving tax breaks to investors who put money into startup ventures.
by Charley Shaw
Published: February 10, 2010
Tags: Ann Lenczewski, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Jim Davnie, Joel Michael, Tim Mahoney
The recession-spawned push to draw more business investment to Minnesota has led state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to craft proposals for giving tax breaks to investors who put money into startup ventures.
by Charley Shaw
Published: January 20, 2010
Tags: angel investments, Ann Lenczewski, Jim Davnie, Kathy Saltzman, Tim Mahoney
Fueled in part by high-profile business defections from Minnesota to Wisconsin last year, a number of legislators are planning a renewed push on long-standing efforts to pass "angel" incentives for early-stage investors in new state businesses.
by Charley Shaw
Published: April 2, 2009
Tags: Apple Inc., digital downloads, Jim Davnie, tax policy, Tom Bakk
It’s not every day that a major company comes out of the corporate suite to attack a tax bill at the Minnesota Capitol. And it’s a rare occasionwhen a Washington, D.C., law firm dispatches one of its partners to tell lawmakers in the Gopher State to tone it down. But a bill introduced by Rep. Jim [...]
