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In 1980, a new state law eliminated interest rate caps, setting the stage for Citibank to move its credit card business from New York to Sioux Falls.

Part 2 of Staff Writer Mikkel Pates’ reflections on a 44-year career at Agweek focuses on the 1980s farm crisis.

Sarah Vogel, one of North Dakota's most noted agricultural lawyers and politicians, has written "The FARMER'S LAWYER: The North Dakota nine and the fight to save the family farm." It is a personal and career memoir of the Coleman v. Block lawsuit, a national class action suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farmers Home Administration, in the teeth of the farm credit crisis of the 1980s.