Kevin Rupp – pioneering the use of the school board purge February 13, 2015 Readers of of my blog have ample examples of my regard for our School District’s attorney Kevin Rupp. Its the law spelled out in… Continue Reading
A warning to Minnesota School Board members before engaging the legal services of Attorney Kevin Rupp January 15, 2015 Background: I am Harry Welty. I served on the Duluth School Board from 1995 through 2003. I attended every MSBA conference in those eight… Continue Reading
a shout out to our attorney, Kevin Rupp June 14, 2014 Hey Kev, I wanted to share the quick legal research of a layman (woman really) who was at our recent Board meeting. She didn’t… Continue Reading
Rupp si daisy January 16, 2015 I had planned to go back to my notes to reconstruct my nine objections to retaining Kevin Rupp’s firm. I outlined them at our… Continue Reading
Attorney Rupp on the Hot Seat January 6, 2015 Today’s brief DNT story on the January organizational meeting of the School Board is spare but accurate. I didn’t record it but a friend… Continue Reading
Rupp’s bluffs March 13, 2009 On Tuesday the Trib’s Education reporter, Sarah Horner, talked to the attorney representing the School District and Craig Hunter who represents the taxpayers. The… Continue Reading
I have church to go to. I’ll edit this later re: George Bush and other stuff December 5, 2018 This Harry’s Diary post didn’t start out with a title drawing attention to my dawdling over posts. But its a good reminder to my… Continue Reading
“Something sparked a second look” June 22, 2018 http://www.kbjr6.com/video?clipId=14439239&autostart=true Earlier this week Doug Hasler, the Chief Financial Officer for the Duluth School District, was put on administrative leave. Of course Superintendent Gronseth… Continue Reading
Two hat Wednesday June 20, 2018 I’ve made the press peripherally twice today. I was asked by the Trib, in my capacity as a recent School Board member, what I… Continue Reading
Does reporting the words and deeds of an elected official constitute “sexism” if the official is a female … October 20, 2017 … and the reporter is a male? Or, vice versa? Last night Rosie Loeffler-Kemp and I attended the Chamber of Commerce’s Pat ourselves on… Continue Reading
Can Duluth voters take an endorsement seriously from editors who did not notice that Donald Trump was an ignorant demagogue,… October 18, 2017 …a liar and a seven-year-old sexoholic? Well maybe, but I’m still profoundly disappointed in their at-large school board endorsements. They only grudgingly endorsed me… Continue Reading
Awash in Books March 18, 2017 Thirty years ago I read that an early Chinese leader ordered the destruction of as many ancient Chinese history texts as he could lay… Continue Reading
“Rustling my paperwork” March 17, 2017 Here’s Loren Martell’s take on that last school board meeting and, in particular, my reaction to the suprise reconsideration of retaining Kevin Rupp’s law… Continue Reading
Foresight, what might have been, and temper tantrums March 3, 2017 I slaved off-and-on from 5 AM until midnight yesterday to whittle nonsense riddled old posts from 700 offenders to about 80 left today. It’s… Continue Reading
The Good Donald Trump March 1, 2017 I had every intention of watching President Trump’s first address to a joint session of Congress last evening. Instead, I got Trumped by the… Continue Reading
Harry’s an unhappy camper. March 1, 2017 It’s not quite midnight and I want to vent. Our School Board meeting went on till 10:30 PM by far the latest since I… Continue Reading
Necroscopy of a meeting – Part 5 May 4, 2016 On the inevitability of a new Edison Duluth Reader columnist, John Ramos, has weighed in on Monday’s special school board meeting. Interestingly, he’s not… Continue Reading
welcome to the Duluth School Board May 4, 2016 As if five weeks of non stop abuse in emails and letters to the editor (including this one today) aren’t enough here comes this… Continue Reading
Out for blood? – an email exchange on the Thou Shalt Not series September 25, 2015 I woke yesterday morning to find an urgent plea in my email. One of my eight loyal readers was crushed that they missed the… Continue Reading
Thou Shalt Not Rat Out Our Friends – This is the post where Harry Welty opens himself to grounds for removal from the Duluth School Board September 22, 2015 I’m glad Art is dropping his lawsuit and I’m delighted that we will have three new school board members. With any luck the people… Continue Reading
