BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY AUG. 9, 2016) — The agenda for tonight’s meeting of the Pittsfield City Council exemplifies the preference of Official Pittsfield to keep its citizens in the dark. We can’t get into all of the crawling dishonesties, but three examples should suffice. Point 1 — […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY AUG. 8, 2016) — Today THE PLANET dishes up two items of interest, the first local and the second local, regional, national, and international — one that journalists deal consistently. 1. LETTER SUPPORTS CONNELL: ‘NOT A TYPICAL POLITICIAN’ I am writing this letter […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY Last of Three Parts (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION AUG. 5-7, 2016) — In making the selection of Donovan & O’Connor (D&O) city purchasing agent told Darren Lee of the competing firm Courtney, Lee, & Hamel (CL&H) the main reason was D&O’s greater experience with municipal law. Lee […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY Second of Two Parts (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY AUG. 4, 2016) — With the simmering controversy in the appointment of legal services not making one column inch of taking up one second of time in the Mainstream Media, it has again fallen on THE PLANET to expose […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY AUG. 3, 2016) — Legal dramas have long been standard fare on prime-time TV, from Perry Mason and The Defenders in the late 50s and early 60s to the contemporary Law and Order. You won’t find Raymond Burr again besting William Tallman in the […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY AUG. 2, 2016) — The state rep’s race in in Pittsfield pits two Democrats —incumbent Tricia Farley-Bouvier and Michael Bloomberg — and and one independent, Chris Connell. The incumbent and Bloomberg square off in September for the right to battle Connell in November. In […]
