OTHER VIEWS: Let’s run with the Buffalo City theme park, a real chance to Be Legendary
Jamestown s Buffalo City theme park is a visionary proposal to create a major tourism destination just off Interstate 94. It s an example of the bold investments now possible using the Legacy Fund to create economic opportunities in North Dakota.
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Fargo Forum Editorial Board | 12:00 pm, May 7, 2021 ×
FARGO North Dakota now has the ability to unlock the $8.4 billion Legacy Fund to invest in projects that will grow and diversify the state’s economy, which is perennially reliant on agriculture and energy.
Thanks to legislative action in the recently completed session, the state has an unprecedented opportunity to use its sovereign wealth fund to make bold, strategic investments that will create a better economic future for residents.
Forum Editorial: Let’s run with the Buffalo City theme park, a real chance to Be Legendary
Jamestown s Buffalo City theme park is a visionary proposal to create a major tourism destination just off Interstate 94. It s an example of the bold investments now possible using the Legacy Fund to create economic opportunities in North Dakota.
Written By:
Forum Editorial | ×
North Dakota now has the ability to unlock the $8.4 billion Legacy Fund to invest in projects that will grow and diversify the state’s economy, which is perennially reliant on agriculture and energy.
Thanks to legislative action in the recently completed session, the state has an unprecedented opportunity to use its sovereign wealth fund to make bold, strategic investments that will create a better economic future for residents.
Walter Liggett as seen Jan. 1, 1929. Public Domain / Underwood & Underwood / Wikimedia Commons / Special to The Forum
Walter Liggett was a reporter for the Journal and Daily News in Minneapolis and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, prior to 1908 when he worked as a reporter for the Fargo Forum (now The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead). He then edited newspapers in Alaska and the state of Washington and, in 1918, returned to North Dakota to edit the Fargo Courier News and then briefly served as editor of Bismarck’s Capital Daily.
Liggett spent the next 16 years working for various agencies, writing articles for major publications, and editing newspapers in New York City and Minnesota. In 1935, he founded the Mid-Western American newspaper in Minneapolis, which featured several stories about organized crime headed by Kid Cann, who had links to Minnesota Gov. Floyd Olson. Later that year, Liggett was gunned down by a man Mrs. Liggett and a neighbor lady positively identified as Cann, but he was a
Courtesy of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York
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