SUPREME COURT DECISION ON OBAMACARE ALL ABOUT ROBERTS, ‘HIS OWN MAN’ … COURT GIVES WE THE PEOPLE HUGE FIRST AMENDMENT FREE SPEECH WIN … SPEAKING OF WINS, A WIN FOR BIANCHI … plus … SUNS LOSE AT BWP

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SUPREME COURT DECISION ON OBAMACARE ALL ABOUT ROBERTS, ‘HIS OWN MAN’ … COURT GIVES WE THE PEOPLE HUGE FIRST AMENDMENT FREE SPEECH WIN … SPEAKING OF WINS, A WIN FOR BIANCHI … plus … SUNS LOSE AT BWP

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary ADD#1 FRIDAY JUNE 29, LATER IN THE DAY — Readers may be interested in our ADD #2 addition to yesterday’s column that reported our compliance with the judge’s ruling. ——————————————————- (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012) — Now back to our usually scheduled programming, before we […]

June 29, 2012 59 Comments

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PLANET COMPLIES WITH ORDER OF THE COURT CONCERNING ENTRIES ON BLOG … ‘WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS,’ AND THAT IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN INVIOLATE PRINCIPLE

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary ADD#2, JUNE 29, 2012 — You will notice that we took down many of the comments left at the end of this story. We do that after applying a broad standard to the judge’s injunction that THE PLANET not write about the case at issue. The action […]

June 28, 2012 5 Comments

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SANDUSKY VERDICT RAISES THIRD-RAIL QUESTION LOCALLY: WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT ALL THE CHILD MOLESTATION RUMORS? … IT’S TIME FOR PITTSFIELD AND BERKSHIRE COUNTY TO FACE UP TO THIS ISSUE … IF THERE HAS BEEN AN ORGANIZED RING INVOLVING KEY PUBLIC FIGURES, IT NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED AND PROSECUTED; IF NOT, THE RUMORS MUST BE PUT TO REST ONCE AND FOR ALL

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEws and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 2012) — Is it Berkshire County’s equivalent of the alligators that supposedly swim in the NYC sewers? Or is there a reason Ed Norton carries a speargun into the sewers? Urban myth or sad truth? It’s the question that no one […]

June 27, 2012 6 Comments

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COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT ON METH ISSUE … YON, CLAIRMONT WANT EXECUTIVE SESSION … HEARTBREAK PILL, or, A TALE OF METHADONE AND DEATH … THE STORY IS FINALLY TOLD IN NEW TV SERIES: “THE HOUSEWIVES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY” … plus … NEW FEATURE: ‘THE PLANET DEFINITION’

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2012) — At tonight’s city council meeting, my Right Honorable Good Friends will witness a citizens protest from folks who don’t want a methadone clinic located in a residential neighborhood. THE PLANET plans on being there, either in person or through […]

June 26, 2012 25 Comments

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RESPITE FROM THE RAT RACE, BUT FIRST … ANTI-NEIGHBORHOOD METH CLINIC PROTEST SET FOR TUESDAY’S COUNCIL MEETING … GUESS WHO’S COMING TO BH&O BUILDING ON DAN FOX DRIVE?… plus … THE RESTORATIONS OF POETRY, FEATURING THE DIVINE EDGAR AND SOME CAT NAMED DAN VALENTI

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2012) — With all the “deeds of the children of the night” being exposed on a regular basis from THE PLANET‘s work on behalf of The People of Berkshire County, let us step back, breath fresh air, and cleanse ourselves with […]

June 25, 2012 42 Comments

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!EXCLUSIVES! PLANET BREAKS TWO BIG STORIES: BHS to ‘GOBBLE UP’ BERKSHIRE HEMATOLOGY & ONCOLOGY ON DAN FOX DRIVE, SOURCES SAY … THE PLANET LETS YOU IN ON THE COURT-ORDERED ‘GREETING CARD’ (LITERALLY) MEREDITH NILAN SENT TO PETER MOORE … LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ON A VARIETY OF LOCAL TOPICS … plus … QUICK HITS AND HOT LICKS

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012) — THE PLANET has learned from a reliable source within the health industry that the Berkshire Hematology and Oncology (BH&O) business located on Dan Fox Drive sometime early next year will be absorbed by the growing Berkshire Health Systems (BHS) […]

June 22, 2012 85 Comments

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RALLY AGAINST METHADONE CLINIC TODAY AT PARK SQ. @ 5 P.M. … AT THE START OF SUMMER, THE PLANET REMEMBERS SHERM FELLER … TOM MOORE, PETER’S FATHER, OPENS UP ON MEREDITH NILAN PROSECUTION, BLAMES D.A. … THE COLOSSAL FAILURE KNOWN AS THE ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ … plus … A LOOK AT SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS’ TAX FILING FOR 2009: ‘THAR’S GOLD IN THEM THAR METH CLINICS’

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012) — Before we welcome you to summer, let us share this quick announcement: Tonight, at 5 p.m. at Park Square, those who are against locating a methadone clinic next to Dwyer Funeral Home, near two schools, and in the middle […]

June 20, 2012 59 Comments

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METHADONE CLINIC: THE PLANET TO THE RESCUE ONCE AGAIN, WHILE THE BB AND THE DD TAKE A SNOOZE … MANY QUESTIONS LINGER ON QUESTIONABLE LOCATION OWNED BY A TOP-TIER GOB ASSOCIATE … plus … METH INFORMATION AND A FIRST-HAND REPORT BY GUEST COLUMNIST

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2012) — Our staff on THE PLANET is we, ourselves, and us. Period. We are assisted, of course, by the largest and most comprehensive network of informants, spies, gumshoes, and secret agents (including those in the coveted Z Agents, who have […]

June 20, 2012 24 Comments

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DECISION TO LOCATE METH CLINIC NEXT TO DWYER’S FUNERAL HOME, ON PROPERTY OWNED BY CITY DOC ADAMO, RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT OPENNESS AND TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2012) — THE PLANET uncovered the news. THE PLANET broke the news. On THE PLANET, there has ensued a beneficial, community discussion. While the Boring Broadsheet pretended it wasn’t happening or, worse, didn’t know, and while all the other local media […]

June 19, 2012 98 Comments

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SOURCES: METH CLINIC MAY BE LOCATING NEAR DWYER FUNERAL HOME … RECAP OF WTRB FLIP FLOP CASE: WHAT WAS LEARNED … plus … THE BEST VIEW ALWAYS TAKES INTO ACCOUNT ‘SEEING THINGS WHOLE’

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, Friday, JUNE 15, 2012) — It’s enough to raise the dead. Sources say the irate calls made yesterday to various of my Right Honorable Good Friends in public office from Debbie Dwyer of Dwyer Funeral Home were likely more venting than anything else, since […]

June 15, 2012 86 Comments

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STURGEON LANDS NEW RADIO GIG … TODAY IS FLAG DAY, AND THE PLANET OBSERVES WITH AN OPEN LETTER TO MAYOR BIANCHI REGARDING THE VETERANS’ AGENT IN PITTSFIELD: ‘GET A NEW ONE, MR. MAYOR’ … A FLAG DAY POEM FROM LONG AGO … plus … GUEST COLUMNIST SHARES HER ‘PRIMORDIAL, PATRIOTIC HOLLER’

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012) — We lead with this item. Sources tell us that beginning Wednesday, June 20, ex-WBRK and never-WTBR talkmeister Bill Sturgeon will begin a new show on WRRS 104.3 FM. His show will be part of the Berkshire Talking Chronicle, a […]

June 14, 2012 52 Comments

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DADDY JAKE LANDS ON HIS FEET AT EAGLETON SCHOOL, BUT WAS HE DOUBLE DIPPING AT THE JCR? THE SCANDALS CONTINUE IN THE ONCE-BEATIFUL CITY OF PITTSFIELD … QUICK HITS and SHORT LICKS ADDRESS MANY TOPICS, INCLUDNG BEEPERS AND THE INCOMPETENT BUT UNTOUCHABLE VETERANS AGENT … plus … LETTERS TO THE EDITOR DEAL WITH THE HYPOCRITICAL (NON-CATHOLIC) CLERGY, TAXES, AND RO THE UNTOUCHABLE

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012) — The story begins as so many do, with a dime dropped in the still of the night from someone who knows something. Cyberspace is one of the best innovations yet in terms of its ability to let loose the […]

June 12, 2012 53 Comments

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PUMMELIN’ PAM HURLS PERSON ABUSE AT THE PLANET AFTER EXPOSE … MAZZEO RESPONDS WITH LEVEL-HEADED INFORMATION … WHEN IS A $3.5 MILLION LOSS NOT A LOSS (or “DON’T TELL ‘EM ANGELO SENT YOU”) … WHY IS HERMAN ALEXANDER’S STILL DOING BUSINESS?

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2012) — Pummelin’ Pam Malumphy, identified by THE PLANET‘s investigation as the “political type” behind Larry Kratka‘s decision to cancel the Bill Sturgeon’s show on WTBR, sent THE PLANET another poison e-mail. It is notable now, in two e-mails, that Malumphy […]

June 12, 2012 39 Comments

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PLANET’S ACE DETECTIVE, HEMLOCK HOLMES, REVEALS RESULTS OF PROBE INTO THE GREAT WTBR FLIP-FLOP STARRING LARRY KRATKA … ‘And the MURDERER is ___________ ‘ … SUNS SET DOWN IN UGLY LOSS SATURDAY NIGHT AT BWP

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012) — This is the part of our three-act play, The Great WTBR Flip Flop, where we gather the suspects in the room and we reveal the killer(s). “They,” as Larry Kratka calls “Them,” tried to throw our men off the […]

June 10, 2012 78 Comments

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SOURCE: SHERIFF BOWLER FIRES HOWARD EBERWEIN II (JAKE’s OLD MAN)FROM JRC … PLANET EXCLUSIVE: SUSAN MOORE REACTS TO NILAN VERDICT …REVIEW OF BOY JAKE’s SCHOOL DEPARTMENT BUDGET SHOWS HUGE INCREASE in PERSONNEL and NO ADMINISTRATIVE CUTS … MORE DISBELIEF OVER NILAN VERDICT or WHAT’s A CIVIL TRIAL FOR? … UNIONISM AND THE RAPE OF TAXPAYERS … SUNS COME OUT SHINING … plus … DARKWAVE MEETS STEAMPUNK

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2012) — We begin today with this News Flash. Sources report that Sherriff Tom Bowler has fired Howard Eberwein II, Father of Jake, from his position at the Juvenile Resource Center (JRC, aka Carmen’s Harem). While we have not officially confirmed […]

June 8, 2012 125 Comments

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ADD 1: SPECIAL INTERESTS BULLY TAXPAYERS AGAIN, AT SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEETING …MOM AND DAD PLANET: CELEBRATING 68 YEARS OF MARRIAGE TODAY … LETTERS ON PLANET’s D-DAY PIECE … NILAN VERDICT: WAS JUSTICE SERVED … NILAN-MOORE CASE WILL LIKELY PLAY OUT IN CIVIL COURT … CIVIL TRIAL COULD BE EXPLOSIVE

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary ADD #1 THURSDAY JUNE 7, 2012 Last night, 150 toadies of the Special Interests attempted to intimidate members of the Pittsfield School Committee regarding the bloated school budget. That budget is not $54 million, as the cowed Boring Broadsheet reports today, but $90+ million. These 150 apparently […]

June 7, 2012 62 Comments

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