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Archive | November, 2012

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OUR SERIES ON BERKSHIRE CAROUSEL — “WILL IT GO ROUND IN CIRCLES” — CONCLUDES TODAY … GOB PITTSFIELD HAD ONLY ONE INTEREST IN THE CAROUSEL: TO SEE THAT NO OTHER TOWN GOT IT … CAROUSEL PROVIDES CAUTIONARY TALE UPON WHICH THE CITY’S FATE RESTS

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, NOV. 2, 2012) — Today, THE PLANET concludes its four-part examination of how and why Pittsfield slammed its doors on the Berkshire Carousel. To be more precise, GOB Pittsfield did the slamming. Most ordinary citizens wanted to see the carousel come to town […]

November 2, 2012 36 Comments

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PART 3 OF A !!PLANET EXCLUSIVE!! — “WILL IT GO ‘ROUND IN CIRCLES?” THE CAROUSEL PROJECT GETS OFF TO A SLOW START, BUT FROM THE GET-GO, THE CITY SHOWED AN ODD DISDAIN FOR THE PROJECT. WHY? THE ANSWER REVEALS MUCH ABOUT PITTSFIELD’S OFFICIAL DYSFUNCTION

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Third of a four-part series (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, NOV. 1, 2012) — Those who grew up in and loved the Pittsfield of the 1950s and 60s didn’t realize, of course, how the three Ps — politics, power (of GE), and pollution — would come to transform […]

November 1, 2012 32 Comments