FAKE ‘FAB FOUR’ FEST OFFERS FAUX FUN plus HOUSE DEMS STICK IT TO YOU AGAIN, TAKING HUNDRED$ OF MILLION$ MORE OF YOUR $$ THAN THEY NEED

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FAKE ‘FAB FOUR’ FEST OFFERS FAUX FUN plus HOUSE DEMS STICK IT TO YOU AGAIN, TAKING HUNDRED$ OF MILLION$ MORE OF YOUR $$ THAN THEY NEED

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013) — “Everybody wins here.” That’s what Ron Lively, Pittsfield High School band director, said about the band’s upcoming fundraiser slated for tomorrow (April 5) at the Boland Theater at Berkshire Community College. “Beatlemania Stage Show,” yet another of the endless […]

April 4, 2013 34 Comments

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FINALLY: CATHOLIC RIGHT-WING FUNDAMENTALISTS GETTING A TASTE OF REASON, COMMON SENSE, AND TRUE ECUMENISM … POPE FRANCIS STARTLES TRADITIONALISTS AND DELIGHTS EVERYONE ELSE … HISTORICAL COMMISSION SEEKS DEMOLITION DELAY ON CRANE WAREHOUSE; COUNCIL FEELS BETRAYED BY SCALISE

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013) — Finally, a Holy Father who gets it. After 50 years of fundamentalist initiatives coming out of Rome, especially during the increasingly regressive papacies of Karol Wojtyla and Josef Ratzinger, the Catholic Church seems to have a chief prelate determined […]

April 3, 2013 23 Comments

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NEW INFORMATION EMERGES IN FEDERAL PROBE OF LEE POLICE DEPARTMENT TOY FUND … REVELATIONS POINT OUT THE FAILURE OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA, PARTICULARLY THE BB AND LOCAL RADIO, TO DIG INTO A STORY … IT ALSO SHOWS THE VALUE OF ALTERNATIVE MEDIA

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013) — New information has emerged about the slow-moving federal investigation into the Lee Police Department‘s administration of a toy fund. Long-time Lee cop and current police chief Joe Buffis is the fund’s manager. Buffis remains the central figure in the […]

April 2, 2013 35 Comments

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MEASURABLE CRIME RATE GOING DOWN NATIONALLY, BUT STATISTICS ARE NOTORIOUSLY SLIPPERY … plus … A STATISTICAL LOOK AT CRIME IN THE CITY OF PITTSFIELD (NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THE SQUEAMISH)

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013) — We will pass on the obvious temptation offered by April Fool’s Day. In one way or another, we are all fools and in our own way wise men. We are, as Kris Kristofferson once wrote in a lyric, “walking […]

April 1, 2013 22 Comments

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