I don’t think you could say that I’ve been careless keeping my computer files organized for the past five years. I think negligent is a better description. I spent a day seperating items I wrote in 2023 from those being written now in 2024. I will help me immesurably as I organize the first of at least one book volume of my past writing. Ever since Covid hit and I took up French I’ve created new folders for a day or a week as I started and then dropped a half dozen book projects. I woke at 4:30 this morning after going to bed at 1:00 when I hung up the organizing. I got a shower, feeding the cat, starting my coffee and a fire in the gas fire place, reading the news and doing French before opening my computer to start again today. I’ll have a two hour stint this noon serving up lunch to people at the Damiano Center before returning home to continue.
I often pause to look at things I’ve written and a moment ago I found this letter to the editor which was composed in 2021 before the Trib had become a shell of its former self:
I can’t recall if I really sent it in to the Trib or not but I enjoyed reading it again: Here’s what I may or may not have sent them:
To the Editors,
My wife who is infinitely more sensible than me rolled her eyes when I proposed writing to the editor. “Sure,” she said, “remind everybody how you mistakenly released the sales price for New Central in 2014 and got censured for it.” So I will.
Today’s Editors of the News Tribune have called on the School Board to release the signed sale price for Duluth’s Old Central. The same editors were on the job in 2014 when I released word of a ten million dollar offer on New Central that had also been signed and which our Administration wanted to keep quiet. For this the Board censured me knowing that the News Tribune had their back.
The editorial board’s opinion was quite different back then. It can be easily deduced by the December 1, 2014 Editorial headline: “Our view: Come on, Harry, keep it to yourself.”
That was then. After consulting the Tribune’s attorney Mark Anfinson, the editors have discovered the need for public disclosure. They are not begging the Board to keep the price secret. I applaud the editor’s change of heart.
Harry Welty
Loyal 45-year subscriber to the Trib
