MORANDI GETS OFF TO FAST START … PEDA WANTS TO SHUT YOU OUT … MR. MITT HAS HEALTH CARE RX … DO YOU KNOW A HERO? … plus … PEDA, BB HOOPLA ODD CONSIDERING NO PLANS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED (ACCORDING TO CORYDON)

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MORANDI GETS OFF TO FAST START … PEDA WANTS TO SHUT YOU OUT … MR. MITT HAS HEALTH CARE RX … DO YOU KNOW A HERO? … plus … PEDA, BB HOOPLA ODD CONSIDERING NO PLANS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED (ACCORDING TO CORYDON)

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JAN. 9, 2012) — THE PLANET had a lovely out-of-state weekend, being an idiot savant when it comes to football picks (as my friend John Foster would say to the Swami about my football expertise along the lines of idiot savant, “You got […]

January 9, 2012 40 Comments

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!BULLETIN! CEO OF BRIEN CENTER RESIGNS!!! … MORE ON THE PEDALS MESS: MEETING PACKS THE HOUSE … BIANCHI ATTENDS AND SCORES A WIN FOR THE PEOPLE … CORYDON GETS THE ‘KRAMDEN “HAMINA-HAMINAS”‘ … THE TRUE REASON FOR THE 8 A.M. STARTING TIME … WARD’S LETTER … plus … INTERVIEW WITH A PLANNER, PT. 1

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary ADD 1, JAN. 6, 2012 THE PLANET received word late this afternoon from a reliable source that Kate Doherty, CEO of the Brien Center, has resigned. We don’t know much more than this. We will say that we have known Katie for many years, and we found her […]

January 6, 2012 54 Comments

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MR MITT FLYING, MR. JAKE NOT RE-APPLYING, PEDA DYING, AND LOCAL THEATERS TRYING

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary ADD 1, THURSDAY JAN. 15 The PEDA board meeting is tomorrow at 8 a.m., at the PEDA offices, 81 Kellogg St., near Woodlawn. Mike Ward, who has engineered a petition to fight the stupid use of the sight as a B- or C-level Big Box manufacturing site […]

January 4, 2012 69 Comments

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RAMIFICATIONS OF JAKE EBERWEIN’S RESIGNATION AS PITTSFIELD SCHOOL SUPER … SURPRISE MOVE REPRESENTS HUGE OPPORTUNITY FOR CITY … KINNAS: ‘HIRE A PRO’

BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 2012) — The sudden resignation of Pittsfield School Superintendent Howard “Jake” Eberwein certainly has THE PLANET and the town buzzing. It will pre-empt by at least a day our planned coverage of two local theaters — The Barrington Stage and the […]

January 3, 2012 41 Comments

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INAUGURALS, TROUGLE FOR BRUNIN, and PEDALS … plus … WARD LAUNCHES PEDALS PETITION, HOW PITTSFIELD TAXPAYERS GOT ROBBED OF $7 MILLION, and BSC TONE DEAF

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JAN. 3, 2012) — Happy birthday to Planet Dad, who turned 91 today and will celebrate by taking a long walk on the Mary Flynn Trail in Stockbridge, Mass.! Gotta love it. WELCOME ABOARD — Now that the new government is duly constituted, […]

January 3, 2012 31 Comments