By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary BREAKING NEWS! — THE PLANET received word shortly after 4 p.m. Friday, the end of the city’s work day, that city accountant Ben Wax resigned. We don’t know if this was unexpected or benign, forced or of choice. Resignations occur, of course, but there’s heightened interest when […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015) — Time to empty out THE PLANET Mail Bag. These are messages (mostly e-mails) that have come into THE PLANET and that have yet to be published. Here goes: ‘For Crying Out Loud’ (or Softly, for that Matter) TO THE […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015) — Quick Hitz & Hot Lix comes to you today, brought to you by nothing and no one, which is just how we like it, Unbought and Unbossed. THE PLANET remains the purest medium around, untouched by commercial taint. With so […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015) — There has been much made, and rightly so, of the spectacular economic growth in the East, in Asia, and in the Pacific Rim countries. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, a new book by Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015) — Welcome to March, which comes in like a aardvark and goes out like an orangutan. Welcome to March, a scant two months from the day nomination papers become available at the city clerk’s office for public office in the […]
