BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION RESUMES OUR LIVE, IN-STUDIO BROADCASTS TOMORROW NIGHT. THE FUN BEGINS AT 7 p.m. CH. 16, PITTSFIELD CABLE. (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 2015) — A political bromide says that the person who slings mud loses ground. Mud-slinging is what a candidate and his […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 2015) — Council president Melissa Mazzeo had the fitting quip last night in chambers upon seeing a full house sans air conditioning: “There’s a lot of hot air in this room tonight.” Not many got the joke. The signer wasn’t on duty, […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 8, 2015) — Since the major blow-up at the Pittsfield Boys and Girls Club in the spring that saw key members fired and the executive director booted, the Club under new director Chris Jacoby has managed to stay out of the headlines. The […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEEKEND EDITION, SEPT. 4-7, 2015) — Now that a wise and intelligent judge has declared Tom Brady the greatest of saints and Roger Goodell the most heinous of sinners, THE PLANET takes a break from 3P — Pittsfield’s Poison Politics — and opens The Comment Line for […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 2015) — With multiple lawsuits now having been filed by officers of the Pittsfield Police Department, what of the suspension of police officer and union head Jeff Coco? Is it yet another city departmental scandal that will be swept under the […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 2015) — Is the proverbial “other shoe” about to drop on the Bianchi Administration and its troubled police department? Sources tell THE PLANET that officer Chris Kennedy has hired the same law firm as Sgt. Mark Lenihan. As you know from […]
