North Dakotans Freak Over Bill Gates Land-Buying Mystery
He’s one of the richest men in the world and the largest individual owner of farmland in the country. Now Bill Gates appears to have acquired a slice of their tiny city, and locals near Pembina, North Dakota, aren’t happy about it. The news is making waves across the state, as well.
“The public's kind of in an uproar,” said Doug Goehring, North Dakota’s agriculture commissioner. “It's a matter of… he has no tie to the land, he has no tie to agriculture, he's going around to different states and purchasing land.”
The deal, which closed last November but was recently reported by AgWeek, involved roughly 2,100 acres in Pembina and Walsh Counties, at a total price of approximately $13.5 million, the outlet said.
The sellers included members of North Dakota’s prominent Campbell family, who run an eponymous potato farming business in multiple states. One member of the family named on the deed transfer, Thomas Campbell, previously served in the North Dakota Senate and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
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Cue the Gates haters and conspiracy theorists!
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That Bill Gates. Where else is he going to produce the microchips that are in the COVID vaccines? 
In case it's needed. 
the potatoes we can eat. 
It won't do my diabetes any good, but death by french fries would be a novel way to go.
That's Billy Preston on keyboards. I'd forgotten all about that. Long time ago, long time ago. I'm getting old. Well, at least I had a chance to get old. Neither Frank or Billy did. Too soon gone for both of them. 
Don't believe Billy ever played with FZ. This is good synchronicity, though -- there was a nice feature on CBS Sunday Morning today about the new Beatles documentary put together by Peter Jackson, featuring some wonderful footage of Billy Preston playing Fender Rhodes electric piano on "Get Back." He was like 20 at the time. 
I actually saw this version of the Mothers one time -- absolutely incredible. They played "Inca Roads" before it had been released on record, with George Duke on keybaords and vocal. Nice!
I want Costa Del Fargo…
