BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY DEC. 28, 2016) — You may have missed it, but in his annual address to the Curia of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis excoriated the hidebound group of Church governors for their obstructionist resistance to reform. The Pope blamed his board of directors […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, CHRISTMAS +1, 2016) — Today being an unofficial holiday because Christmas fell on a Sunday, let THE PLANET keep this brief and light. We appreciated everyone’s patience while we were closed for renovation. You don’t see it in the viewable product, but backstage […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY NOTE: GLAD TO BE BACK! WE HAVE COMPLETED OUR MAINTENANCE OF THE SITE AND ARE NOW FULLY BACK IN BUSINESS. THE PLANET APPRECIATES ALL WHO INQUIRED. NOW IT’S ONWARD AND UPWARD, AS EVER UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED! (THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION DEC. 16-18‚ DEC. 23-25, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY DEC. 14-15, 2016) — When THE PLANET covered the recent Tahiti Takeout, fire, we included what The Mainstream Media wouldn’t or couldn’t, including an issue that surfaced regarding equipment problems at headquarters of the Pittsfield Fire Department. As a result of these problems, the city was […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY PROGRAM NOTE: Tune in to PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION as we spend the hour with Mayor Linda Tyer and her director of administrative services, Roberta McCulloch-Dews. Join THE PLANET and Supercitizen Terry Kinnas for all the fun beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday night, Dec. 15, on PCTV Channel […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION DEC. 9-11, 2016) — The fire that torched the Tahiti Takeout building culminated a tough week at the Pittsfield eatery. Earlier, sources say, two of the chefs got into an argument. A knife was pulled, and one of the cooks came out […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, 75th ANNIVERSARY OF PEARL HARBOR ATTACK) — For the first century, newspapers in America were essentially political screeds. This included emptying both chambers upon adversaries who were lied about, libeled, and labeled. The notion of objective “news” taking precedence over commentary and pamphleteering came in […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY DEC. 5, 2016) — Here’s some Christmas cheer from Forbes magazine, one you can be sure Pittsfield treasurer Matt “Kufflinks” Kerwood will conveniently miss. He’s another of the thousands who don’t read PLANET VALENTI! From Forbes: “Massachusetts now has a $67 billion budget shortfall, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION, DEC. 2-4, 2016) — As readers of this board know, THE PLANET has been more than eager to serve as ombudsman ex-officio for The Berkshire Eagle. We have been occasionally on hand to point out the paper’s flaws, motivated by a […]
