‘IT’S ALL OKAY: THE PLANET’s CHRISTMAS CAROL
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS TO NEW YEAR’S DAY, 2017-18) — Let’s kiss another year goodbye. Let the kiss be welcomed and enjoyed, without a trace presumption or perfunction. THE PLANET saw, endured, and welcomed many changes this years — privately, personally, and professionally — and each was or will ultimately prove to be a good one, for we have learned that the more things stay the same, the more they change. It works the other way around, also.
Our late, great friend, novelist Hollis Hodges — like Brooklyn Dodger first baseman Gil Hodges, a native of Indiana — used to hold court as the resident wise man at Heaton Hall in Stockbridge. THE PLANET was a regular at his sessions, one on one, old age speaking to middle. As a man who had lived through and been to war, alcoholism, divorce, estrangement from family, and more, he had seen enough ups and downs of life to last 28 lifetimes — especially the downs. He nonetheless showed a resolution not to be defeated by circumstance or wallow in failure. He successfully wrote novels with major publishers, two of them bought by Hollywood and one making it to the big screen. It wasn’t all roses in June, however.
Hodges reminded THE PLANET of Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist. In his 90th year, Tolstoy experienced a crises of faith. The man who had written War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and a number of other towering works that alone would have defined a stellar legacy, reflected on his life and concluded that he had done nothing. He thought he had failed. Hodges traveled down that same conceptual road, as, truly, we all must do when reckoning both with Life and with a life. The confrontation is never easy, for, along with triumphs and the oases of happiness, life contains too many mistakes, regrets, disappointments, and losses. How do we deal with them? Hodges followed Tolstoy. He wrestled with his demons.
When a person does that in resolution and determination, the demons ALWAYS lose. It makes the battle no less easy and many shy away, but it provides a large measure of lasting comfort and solace, those two twins of fulfillment and cousin of memory. Hodges emerged from the match victorious, irrespective of how he felt about it. Feelings as information are useful, but they are notoriously unreliable both as the basis of action in the present moment (which is all we ever have) or to resolve and come to terms with the past. THE PLANET must add that we never directly asked him if he had won, or if he felt he had won or lost. It didn’t matter. We knew. Hollis Hodges took up the task of living, and he lived it to the full. That’s victory.
THE PLANET shares this story with a secondary generosity in mind. We want to pass along one of Hodges’ favorite sayings, a personal mantra he would recite with the conviction of a man about to die for a cause. The gem consisted of three little words, ones we have made our own:
“It’s all okay.”
Even when it’s not okay, it is okay because time invariably proves it so. Think of the saying as a form of universal forgiveness of the kind associted with the words “God” and “mercy” and provides the basis for faith in universal and unconditional forgiveness for what we call sin. Afterlife or no, time sweeps us along and dissolves our earthly coil back into the atoms from which we derived. The recyling is certain and, at the risk of characterizing the ineffable to the point of caricature, benign. Only the form of it remains anyone’s guess.
Allow THE PLANET, then, to wish you all a Happy Christmas and the best of New Years. Friend or foe and everyone neither, both, or in between, we repeat the words that end every PLANET column: “Love to All.”
And remember, no matter what life throws at you, it’s all okay.
We shall reform here on THE PLANET after New Year’s Day. Enjoy the break but feel free to come here in the interim with your comments. Communication at this address is always a two-way affair.
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“God bless us all” — Timy Tim, from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
The Usual Disclaimer.
Happy New Year to you to Dan! And make sure you come back….Have heard a couple of B B gun shootings at homes and Businesses and even people these last few months, serious stuff, what are the authorities doing about it? Where’s the Eagle? Many years ago someone shot out a window and got jail time, couple of punks. With all the crap going around this junk should be taken very seriously. Zero tolerance.
Cold out there, take a peek out for elderly neighbors.
Looks Like the Health Cepartment is going to be the Hier Enforcer for Shoceling this yer. City owned property near the entrance of Wahconah Park hasnmt been shoveled as hasn’t tre Grey Stone Church down near Dower ,Richmond Bakery- Vongs, the old Breafast Trailer on Wahconah,( closed down)to name a few.
The only way the Health Department will enforce an uncleared sidewalk is if someone is smoking on it!!
Good one. You win comment of the month.
Armed robbery somewhere on Waconah st Christmas day. Listed on Raids online. Not seeing it in the Eagle
Dan, you have a beautiful mind. Thank you for the peaceful reminder that “It’s all okay”. Similarly, “This, too, shall pass” applies to all of life’s difficulties.
Thank you for being a voice for all of us, a source of comfort that someone is keeping an eye on things. You do this freely on your own time. You are much under-appreciated.
May the coming year be light-filled and joyous for you.
Love and appreciation to you.
Valenti is quite readily and most certainly one of the finest writers in New England, and there are some good ones. The measure of a man/ women is what he / she carries on his/her shoulders. A few years ago,the Planet went into a Court room to show all here what that was all about. He has been our mouthpiece for some time now, and admit it, we love every minute of it.
Trump read the FBI dossier and said its all bullshit except the parts about emais for Hillary and the uranium mine sale to a Russian co
A close up of Trumps left eye shows stages of dementia.
How? Is it forgetting to blink?
No, it’s domicile.
A super prolonged cold spell is on the way. Quite often causes water mains to burst. Look for testy conditions later in the week. Keep your gas tank full. Make sure your battery jumper has been charged. Hope you drained that outside spigot if it is not frost-free. Keep your tongue off metal pipes and bumpers.
Suggestions for other preventive measures??
……..Hold onto you’re wallet.
Bootlicking.
It was so cold this morning that everyone at the school department had their hands in their own pockets.
Good One
What’s this that I hear about the draw down at Onota not being done to environmental guidlines?
Makes it easy for the bottom feeders.
It was so cold this morning I watched part of the Sturgeon show.
If your brain wasn’t numb before it surely was afterwards!
It was so cold that even Ruberto’s breath froze.
Was watching a video of how gangs are murdering people right on the beaches in Cancun Mexico. And the police and mayor are keeping it out of the news as much as possible so as not to lose tourism.
Are they copying the Pittsfield model? If it is not in the newspaper then it did not happen?
The beaches in Cancun are vibrant and dynamic!
Perhaps Bouvier could fly down there and tell her compadres that they are less violent than Americans.
Yeah, maybe Westover has a C-5 headed that way.
She can parachute in.
TFB stays away from beaches, for fear the beach goers will continually try to put her back in the water.
Are you sure you weren’t watching Jaws?
I was in Cancun a couple of weeks ago and I assure you it is very safe.
Hollis Hodges often frequented Mundy’s in Housatonic just sitting at the bar nursing a coffee. He was a great thinker and upstanding gentleman who often spoke of the Heaton Hotel in the years before it was taken down…a place of great distinction with a history all its own. He and John Costello a partner in Judge Earl Warren’s law firm presided over Lenox and Stockbridge using the estates clause to attempt to save many Guilded Age cottages from development.
Both John and Hollis are remembered by locals as members of a
breed that tried to make a difference in Southern Berkshire County.
Thanks Dan for bringing the memories of Hollis back to life.
GIACOMETTI
And thank you for adding to the portrait of this great man. John Costello, Hollis Hodges, and the redoubtable Mary Flynn kept Stockbridge STOCKBRIDGE at a time when many other communities were taking the federal bribes, calling it Urban Renewal, and tearing down their respective heritages. Remind you of Pittsfield? Thank God for these people and those like them who understood the timelessness of authentic community Value. The iconic and now world-famous Main Street of Stockbrodge stands as their monument, a reminder of a more civil and sane age that understood pace, and that you win the race by running slowly.
Stockbridge main street has nothing to see.Four storefronts made famous by one mans interest in painting it once.This kind of accidental notoriety is pure luck and shows nothing about the townies except that the artist lived around the corner.
I am originally from Troy, NY, a city with a LOT of similarities to Pittsfield; so many similarities. But, in the early 70’s, when the urban renewa, craze was really in full swing, my father owned a couple of city blocks of truly dilapidated buildings. He’d spent the prior decade jumping out of bed every time he heard a fire engine at night because thebuildings were uninsureable. He jumped at the offer to sell the whole shebang to the city, for a dollar, so they could be demolished and turned into parking. One of the houses in the lot happened to be Uncle Sam Wilson’s original home. Troy’s one and only claim to fame, other than being the birthplace of the detachable shirt collar, is as the Home of Uncle Sam. They demolished it, and my Dad sold it to them!
The mediocrity of people born in the berkshires is evident everywhere you look.The economy is failing north to south for 30 tears with country courtains being the latest berkshire failure.Thank god for the out of town millions that have found Lenox as the resort town of the future and hope the continued spillover carries Lenox little sister Stockbride a few more decades…..Casinos are the future of an area that has 2 million people already here to see the sites.
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Thank you for your comments. Your love of Stockbridge is apparent. Actually, since the end of the Gilded age and particularly since Jack and Jane bought the Red Lion Inn in 1973 — the “spillover” has been from Stockbridge down to GB and up to Lenox. THE PLANET should know. We write these words from Stockbridge. You might try to visit more often and get to know the charming nooks and crannies that lie beyond the tourist draws, which themselves retain an elliptical charm.
Smitty and bouvier should talk about why they believe Lee and Great Barrington Housatonic are failing.
Private money wont come to the Berkshires and some dont was federal or state money and the boat is leaking as we watch .There are no rumours of change in Pittsfield as new jobs go where the incentives are.Boston area is doing good and the other 20 cities are impoverished because local reps are personally doing well…..these 2 will never get it.Smitty did you know GE started leaving Pittsfield 30 years ago.You keep inviting people here as if there is a plan for this area.Lets build a University on the GE property.
Trump said money and jobs are coming to save us and we like the coal miners of Penn and west Virginia will read about this soon.The simple answer was to cut taxes…..here they come.But oddly the business professionals say they will use every dollar to buy back their stock…….nobody is coming.Thank god the EPA has been done away with.
I agree about the EPA. Good riddance. Now we can work towards having skies like China where you do not have to worry about getting sun burned because there is no sun. The smog blocks it out so that you do not even need sun screen. How great is that??
There are only two choices? No regulations at all or mega regulation by the EPA?
What have high taxes done for Berkshire County? Not much by the sorry state of the area. Few jobs, companies and stores leaving in droves. Berkshire County might actually improve if taxes were lowered, but don’t expect local politicians to try that since Progressives are addicted to high taxation.
damn Progressives
If we got anything worthwhile in return for our high taxes then I wouldn’t complain. But instead we get a failing school system that is overmanned and overpaid, high crime, poor road conditions, blight, lazy losers living off public assistance, and a joke of a garbage toter system soon to come.
What keeps people living in an area that they obviously hate. There are so many other options.
H
It’s a good question with a simple answer that covers most (though not all) cases. Answer: Poverty, lack of education, lack of marketable skills, obligations that are not easily shed.
Add to that the depressed housing prices around here. Hard to move when a comparable or even lesser home in a nice town is 50-100 grand more than here.
It comes down to it just being too damn expensive to move.
Corporations Buy the Stock they get from the tax breaks, and continually feed themselves a stock snack periodically, before the stock plummets they never lose and always have that cushion, compliments of people like Ryan and Trump and us taxpayers. Middle class is going to get burned again like never before, so nothing changes. Anyone see what some reporter said on CNN the other day about Trump getting Millions in self advertisement, that by the way, was stated on the Planet many months ago, good call, remember reading it.
If Trumps tax breaks dont do anything for employment then Trump Ryan and Pat agree to go after mental health,medicare ,Social Security…..done cooked,such an odd ending to the great middle class and Greed always wins,the great American addiction that no one will admit.I say our country changed on 9/11 and for awhile things looked good until Bush had Powell lie to the American people and the world for the purpose of war,one we have been fighting ever since. Trump is a american Stooge
You have a bad case of Trumpmentia.
American Stooge, I like it.
I spent three three difficult days in the Berkshires this past weekend, my first without my Dad. I went through–and maybe am going through– the confrontation with demons and wrestling with life that Hodges did. I never knew him but I do appreciate the uniqueness of Stockbridge especially at Christmas. I’m glad he was as committed as he was. So..
Happy New Year to everyone reading the Planet and especially to its creator–Dan.
CHUCK
Many thanks, and once again, We extend our deepest condolences for the loss of your dad. It was men like your father and Hollis Hodges that made this country great simply through their greatness, which they “disguised” as goodness, decency, humility, and — always — trying to do the right and honorable thing. As for the demons, that wrestling match is one for us all. The people who avoid the tilt by running away (via drugs, alcohol, workaholism, toys and trinkets of materialism, or any way else) only assure worsening the odds when dem Ol Demons come calling. Therefore, take heart and courage as you wrestle — and as THE PLANET recalls so vividly in our gym classes with you under Al Belanger — you were a damned good mat man. Those strengths that you possessed then are still there now: strength, power, persistence, patience, will. A man doesn’t do on to your kinds of achievements (for example, chair of one of the country’s premier business schools) without having such qualities. As we fight the good fight, keep in mind a saying that we find helpful when we are up against it: Fear is a demon who guards a treasure. With love and good wishes from all on THE PLANET.
Chuck, nice words, thanks. In the words F D R The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, greatest quote of all time. Next to the,If the glove fit doesn’t fit, then you must acquit.
Glad it was Johnny Cocran saying it, otherwise they would have hanged O J.
In recent days, I’ve heard of several downtown businesses that are moving (Not all storefronts). Some have already begun their move, others (Mad Macs) will be moving after the new year. The main factor cited by all…Parking!!! Great job in addressing that problem city officials! Still vibrant and Dynamic???
Excellent commentary T C. I’ve used Mad Macs and could never figure out why that Business, successful that was, was located there. I would go there in the summer, and you can’t park out in the front,
and the dead beats looking on at you on the side street was definitely not an option.
I miss the Tyler Trash Cans, can’t wait till Spring.
The mayor should set aside a special day, perhaps Ground Hog day, so that people could go view them in storage. Someone put a lot of time and money into those things and to have them hidden away in some dank dark attic is reprehensible. What is next, secretly selling them at Sothebys?
I would pay five dollars for a can. And would proudly display it in the front yard,next to my Gorilla Wheel BarrelToter.
All things considered, I’d rather wrestle with demons than Carmen.
Trump reminds everyone I talk to of Carmen
You have a lot of friends in common with Carmen?
Trump and Carmen ,low self esteem and power is abusive
Time for your nap Captain.
Great column, great subject, great writing. Valenti definitely the best writer in NE. Loved the bit about Hollis a man I knew well from Thelegendary Mundys.
Wasn’t one Sam Miller the bartender there?
The approval rating for Obama after one year in office was 47%. For Trump the approval rating is 46%. Very much the same, but the liberal media goes on a tirade of Trump is the least popular president of all time.
I was also listening to 1420 news yesterday and they were talking about the extremely cold weather. At the end of that story they say that President Trump is very warm in Florida. They then mention in another story that same day that Trump has spent more time in Florida than any other president. Obama spent most of his vacation time in Hawaii, also an extremely warm place, but there was no mention of Obama’s vacation time by the liberal media when he was president. No mention of all of his golf sessions either that often happened during major crisis times in the country. One president was treated like royalty while the other is treated the worst I have ever seen. Mistakes by Obama were covered up while the liberal media goes out of its way to find flaws with Trump and reports them continually.
Hey Pat, I never know where you distill your facts from, but in his first almost year in office Trump has taken FOUR TIMES as many vacation days as Obama did over the same period. Thats 4x! There are a hundred places you can look it up. And whats even better, he takes his vacations at his own properties so makes fantastic sums of money personally on his little junkets. Corrupt and lazy..,great presidential combination!
And now I see you are relying on the Rasmussen data for your approval rating numbers. That is a deeply flawed poll that surveys only billionaires, wife beaters and sexual deviants from Alabama. For the Gallup numbers, check here. http://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx There is even a really cool chart going all the way back to Truman. There you will see Trumps approval ratings down in the toilet trending toward Nixon’s numbers at the end.
Wow so clear you are an uninformed liberal
Don’t care about any polls. Only what I think matters to me.
Wrong!
Trump just isn’t likeable Pat, by the media anyway. Many people consider him a whore master, racist,Self indulging, pompous, obnoxious,conniving,bombastic greedy, corrupt,and lately, promises kept that do not help middle class America. Aside…Actress Rose Marie died, I thought she was dead years ago.
You do know that the liberal media and Progressives didn’t care that the middle class even existed before Trump was elected? Now, all of a sudden, Progressives are SO WORRIED about the middle class. Not buying it. Also, Hillary, just not a likable person, would have had the same royal carpet rolled out for her just for being a Democrat. All of her “bad stuff” would have been swept under the rug. No, sorry, but this country has a BIG PROBLEM with its media. It’s called CORRUPTION. It’s called being in bed with one political party.
Koolaid anyone?
They’re all in it together Amazing,Corker changed his vote on tax reform,amazing.
Pat are you saying that the republicans really give a crap about the middle class? Seriously? Puleeeezzee take a short vacation from the FOX Hannity brain washing machine and get an unbiased view of what is going on. There is a whole nother world out there that you are missing. And it is called REALITY.
Stage 4 Trumpmentia ^ above.^
Then nobody gives a darn about the middle class Dusty? Is that what you are saying?
Both parties have done their fair share raping the middle class.
The lesson I learned from this past republican tax cut it to grab and take everything you can get your hands on and don’t be worrying about anyone else. Men, woman OR children. Just grab it and giggle.
Lets finnish the Trump investigation into his relationship witb Puttin…..This is going to be called the Greatest Lie in History…..they will be serving Koolaid Pat
H, I think you just described every politician there is.
Rose Marie = Sally Rogers. DVD Show, greatest Tv sitcom of all time. Rob, Laura, Sally, Buddy, Milie, Jerry Richie, Mel, Alan, Herman Glimpsher Great writing and Carl Reiner.
A little before my time, but heard it was a great show. Check out one of my favorite new shows, it’s called The Detour, hilarious. On T B S starting in mid January, guaranteed Chuckles.
No grant for Parks on the Clapp Park Grant, the state and the city can’t afford it, it should be private. Buddy Pellerin knew a thousand people, I would donate privately to this venue.As far as Springside Park, what a joke,many years ago they shut the apart down for a reason, it was an unkept area and deteriorated in front of our eyes, just like the Herbert Hotel,and that was when the City could afford it.
Trump tax cuts will help the middle class. We know that nothing the Progressives have done have helped the middle class. This will be a step up from hurting businesses and encouraging them to leave the country. In fact everything the Progressives have done have hurt the middle class.
Has Pat ever heard of higher wages in a middle class,higher min wage,higher SS,Affordable Healthcare Act,College Loans,parks public schools….the middle class was a hard fought union war with Corporations….you dont have a clue ,your money buys 20% less now than it did 40 years ago
No grant for Parks on the Clapp Park Grant, the state and the city can’t afford it, it should be private. Buddy Pellerin knew a thousand people, I would donate privately to this venue.As far as Springside Park, what a joke,many years ago they shut that parkt down for a reason, it was an unkept area and deteriorated in front of our eyes, just like the Hebert Hotel,and that was when the City could afford it.
My predictions for Pittsfield politics in 2018
* Tax increases, debt increases, and a record-setting municipal budget by July 1st
* Population loss, job loss
* Seniors choosing between heating their homes or eating food
* The Good Old Boys running the show
* Growth in the underclass, teen pregnancies, welfare caseloads
* 700 students choicing-out of Pittsfield public schools
* Tricia Farley-Bouvier running for her 5th legislative term, Smitty Pignatelli’s 9th
* The lovely Linda Tyer’s state of the city address where everything in Pittsfield is “vibrant” and “dynamic”
* Dangerous downtown Pittsfield will see shootings, drugs, poverty, gangs, prostitution
* PEDA will turn 20 years old and will be made into a textbook for economic failure
* Dan Valenti will continue to bitch and moan about Pittsfield politics
And more business will continue to pass by on moving to Pittsfield partly because they see the city does not take care of its infrastructure. When a city has crumbling roads it says a lot about its leaders.
And we really need to have a contest this winter to guess which road will become the least travel-able by April. It is December but potholes are already prolific and since we can’t do anything about them till spring look for linear moonscapes throughout the city.
The city seems to have directed its money toward projects and improvements that would benefit the few and only tossed a few bucks here and there to the roads. Now there is no road money so I wonder what the plan is or if there even is a plan.
Barrie’s got grey hair now and T C has wrinkles. and who’s bitching J?
Barry was told when he went for a coucil seat that we needed a plan on the future of making schools run well .That was years ago and Crosby school mold,Allendale Toxic elementary and future condominium PHS are still there and our new 121 million high school is not sufficient for pittsfield shrinking high schools…..Even the smartest people in pittsfield are dumb.
Pat can drink Koolaid all day but Stockbridge,North Adams,Adams,Dalton,Great Barrington,Housatonic,Glendale,Sheffield are losing jobs….the economy here is not private money its schools,,nursing home ,hospital,,BCC,North Adams state,city and town,courthouse,mental health……they will all be recieving less to cover the Trump raid on the future…….did i mention police and fire…….private business looks for handouts
By your theory then School Committee during the Obama years this area should have been booming with jobs. Obama and his fellow Progressives love high taxation. Berkshire County is loaded with Progressives. Why weren’t jobs booming during the Obama years? Why did companies start leaving this area during that time? Why were there so few jobs of any kind, public or private sector, that the only way to get a job is to have a friend or relative give you a job?
Sorry, but your theory does not hold water.
Pat you should get a job teaching 5th graders about how Obama and Hillary ruined the world. They might not be watching Fox news. You could float between schools using a power point presentation and maybe even wear a Hannity mask and a red MAGA hat. This might help prevent them from falling into the Liberal trap their parents might be setting for them. Check and see if Betsy DeVos can set this up for you.
How’s Pittsfield after the Libtards have been in charge for the last 50 years?
No,Obama was handed a world financial collapse, please google 2009….Trump handed a slow growing economy
Thank all your democrat state reps, senators and mayors. They have made the county what it is.
Parking kiosks in Pittsfield bringing in much less money than anticipated. Dan V. and the Planet people are right again.
When you consider all the associated costs I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually lost money.
Alan Chartock writes a very nasty article about President Trump which the BB, of course, makes front and center in their on line site. We’ve got three more years of him unless he is impeached which he so richly deserves. This Chartock guy is unbelievable. There is NO proof of anything with Trump while Hillary’s behavior is given a pass by Chartock because she is a Democrat.
He compares Trump to a dictator when Obama famously said why wait for legislation when I have a pen and a phone, but then we know that according to Chartok, Obama is a genius. For eight long years Chartock assured us that Obama is a genius.
Obama was a genius in Chartock’s eyes even as he let Ebola patients into the country, even as he ignored all the bad behavior of Russia, even as he did nothing to protect Christians in Iraq from ISIS, even as his foreign policy was a nightmare, even as he lied about Obamacare. I expect little truth or objectivity from Chartock because his track record is so abysmal.
The key to any economy is a Housing Starts, you have no new growth in Housing, yielding of New Homes,then you know the Economy isn’t getting any better anytime soon. A few things happened that set the tone for the last couple decades,911 Clinton sex capable, Whitewater,Nafta, and the Bush Cluster. They can all take share for the collapse.
Chartock is known for soliciting gift certificates from restaurants for WAMC fundraising auctions . Problem is the auction never sees them because he keeps them for himself.
What are the other perks?
So my home went up thousands in the latest assessment? How?
I don’t trust our city official’s estimate that the kiosks earned $159,365 for one year.
Do I dare say they have played games with figures in the past.
The kiosks are a failure, no surprise to most of us. Of course they would play it down. I would love to know the true amount but I strongly feel it is “much lower”.
In a politician’s mind they believe they are doing us a favor by not giving out bad new.
True. When the weather is this cold people do not love having to stand out in the freezing cold and interacting with the meters. The winter months will not be good for the meters bringing in lots of money.
Remember 1 thing regressives have spent 1.7 trillion and said it will be 5% GDP….3% with 17 million jobs added by Obama
Hey Captain Gibberish—-Take the night off.
12 ,I think he’s had one to many Harvey Wallbangers……I’m really worried about these people…what are they gonna do when the Inspector Generals report comes out in Jan. The Obama and Hillary people did some very very bad things.
Put them in jail,everyone who scers the middle class or partners up with russia,Jail
My real estate value went way up, finally good news.
Funny how they sent the bills out on a long Holiday weekend. Probably think that people will calm down by Tuesday. I hope not. Too bad the G man didn’t win.
Trump giveth and Tyer taketh. And we get screweth.
Trump giveth crapith and Tyred giveth a phony assessment.
I’ll gladly taketh what Trump giveth youeth.
Just saw Marchetti sing a Tom Jones song on channel 16. Not too bad but when Tricia Farley Bouvier threw her panties on stage I thought that was a bit much.
I saw that. But I thought what she threw on stage was an old parachute. But you are probably right.
Dan please start a discussion about the huge tax increases in Pittsfield. People I am talking to are so pissed and blind sided. Guaranteed great thread.
Raising the house appraisals so they can raise the taxes. This City is corrupt as it gets.
Remember this along with trash cans, toters, loungers, budgets, deceptive school budgets, chronyism, etc., etc,.etc, when Taxing Tyer aka Trashcan Tyer aka Lounging Linda and her RAT Pack (Raise.All. Taxes Pack) and the anointed ones come up for reelection.
It’s crazy, what the hell,they must think we are stupid. Paula should be fired? By Tyered.