Archive | July, 2014
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SENATE PASSES MULTI-MILLION ‘ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT’ BILL … MARY JANE AND JOE KAPANSKI FORCED TO PLAY VENTURE CAPITALISTS WHERE PRIVATE MARKETS DARE NOT TREAD … plus … LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014) — First, in an effort to do what the mayor is afraid of doing for you, we get fully transparent and share this e-mail we sent to the corner office inhabitant. We wrote to Hizzoner: ——– 000 ——– MAYOR BIANCHI […]

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TES’ LETTER ON GAG-ORDER PRESS POLICY PURE PINNOCHOIAN FICTION… or…FLIGHTS OF FANCY FROM A GAS BAG

By DANVALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014) — Welcome to the 1,000th column published here on THE PLANET since Sept. 30, 2010. Hoist one in our names, today, won’t you? Yesterday, The Berkshire Eagle published a letter to the editor from the mayor of Pittsfield, a man going […]

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!UPDATED! IS MIA CITY PERSONNEL DIRECTOR JOHN DeANGELO ON VACATION UNTIL DEC. 2? … or … ONLY IN PITTSFIELD

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary !!SEE STORY UPDATE!! BELOW (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014) — You gotta see this one to believe it. It neatly exemplifies the incompetence that has come to characterize The Empty Suit‘s (TES) tenure as mayor — this time, another incredible lapse by a department head. […]

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!!UPDATED!! PLANET SEWAGE EXCLUSIVE: MORE WATER ON THE MUNICIPAL BRAIN … EAGLE EDITORIAL GETS IT RIGHT … PLANET REVIEWS BTG’s ‘PLEASANTLY PANICKY’ IRMA VEP

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Tonight, for the first Thursday in the past nine, there will be no new Planet Valenti Television episode. All of the equipment is out of the studio and ready for the 4th parade. PV-TV will be back on Thursday, July 10. You won’t believe your eyes and […]

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!!PLANET EXCLUSIVE!! SOURCES: AT CITY WATER DEPARTMENT, SHIT HAPPENS, LITERALLY … plus … THE PLANET’S REVIEW OF BTG’s “IRMA VEP”

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2014) — Under The Empty Suit (TES), the Global Montello energy company employee who play acts as the mayor of Pittsfield and pulls down nearly $88,000 a year+bennies from bedraggled city taxpayers, the hits just keep coming. A few years ago, […]

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