Dan, I really appreciate your forum for the free expression of ideas and information, especially in a GOBSIGS controlled town with retribution handed out to dissenters who would go mainstream. I know you have written before about advertisers controlling content at The Boaring Broadsheet. I know you can’t be bought and sold. Any chance either mayoral campaign will be advertising with you next week?

Stooge quote,’the school budget is the biggest part of the school budget’.Stooge just told Mr. Blumin stop ending his sentences with O K. ….Wow. Get this Bootlicker off the Air. And he is disrespecting Mr. Blumin.

I think it’s high time you were taking ads. Congrats, Dan. You have built, through integrity, the kind of trusted journalism a business can be built on. Please continue to surround yourself and us with truth.

It would be great if we could post pictures or upload attachments like documents.

Planites, have you ever heard of former wrestling great known as Killer Kowalski? I was watching a biography on him. He was quite popular here in a Massachusetts who wrestled under many names. He was also the only vegan eating wrestler.

He was telling a funny story. Killer was a devout a Bachelor. Anyway, Kowalski married for the first time to Teresa Ferrioli in 2006. Killer,who was only 79 years old at the time,joked that he only married that 78 year old Ferrioli after ‘’ she told me she was pregnant’’. He had known the woman since 1998,and she was surprised when he proposed, since he was always known as a lifelong bachelor.

They have good schools in Lenox.

Why?

Hint: Check the median home price.

DV congrats. Can’t wait for the new site. Greatly appreciate the investment. I know it’s not cheap to perform such an overhaul. Glad to see ads.

I guess Dans new thumbs up thumbs down is better than a thumb you know where.

So I hear Blumin say not to vote for Gueil because she works in the DA’s office and Sturgin says he’s attacking her, a personal attack. WTF. How is that an attack? If I say don’t vote for someone because he works for the Mass DOT and that’s a conflict of interest is that a personal attack?

People are throwing eggs at the parade route. What the heck?

Pittsfield politics is always totally predictable!
Every fiscal year, they raise municipal taxes by 5% in Pittsfield.
Pittsfield has hundreds of millions of dollars in debts.
The vested and special interests always win financially, while Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family always loses financially.
PEDA is over 21 years old, and it is a polluted, vacant wasteland.
The Good Old Boys run the show!
A majority of voters don’t bother to vote in the so-called “elections”.
The lovely ladies (Linda & Melissa) are both progressive Democrats who answer to the same Democrat bosses.
Pittsfield public schools are overpriced and under-performing.
Over 650 students per academic year choice out of Pittsfield public schools to neighboring school districts.
Thousands of people have moved away from Pittsfield over the years due to all of the losses of living wage jobs in Pittsfield.
If you speak out against the political corruption in Pittsfield, you lose your job and get blacklisted from future employment opportunities.
Pittsfield is one of the most economically unequal communities in the state and nation.
Blogger Dan Valenti bitches and moans about Pittsfield politics, but the reality is that Pittsfield will never change! Things only get worse and worse in Pittsfield every year!
– Jonathan Melle

Pittsfield Choice info 109.9 FTE students choice in at a revenue of $633,479

538.6 FTE students choice out at a loss of $3,091,943 net loss of students 437 at $5k per student or about $2,185,000 in payments out

I am very concerned about all of the annual trillion dollar federal government budget deficits! Please raise taxes on the wealthy to lower the national debt.

– Jonathan Melle

“US deficit hits nearly $1 trillion. When will it matter?”
By Martin Crutsinger By Associated Press | Published: October 25, 2019

The federal deficit for the 2019 budget year is expected to have soared to near $1 trillion, up more than $200 billion from last year and the largest such gap in seven years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration reported a river of red ink Friday [10/25/2019].

The federal deficit for the 2019 budget year surged 26% from 2018 to $984.4 billion — its highest point in seven years. The gap is widely expected to top $1 trillion in the current budget year and likely remain there for the next decade.

The year-over-year widening in the deficit reflected such factors as revenue lost from the $1.5 trillion 2017 Trump tax cut and a budget deal that added billions in spending for military and domestic programs.

Forecasts by the Trump administration and the Congressional Budget Office project that the deficit will top $1 trillion in the 2020 budget year, which began Oct. 1 [2019]. And the CBO estimates that the deficit will stay above $1 trillion over the next decade.

Those projections stand in contrast to President Donald Trump’s campaign promises that even with revenue lost initially from his tax cuts, he could eliminate the budget deficit with cuts in spending and increased growth generated by the tax cuts.

The deficit has been rising every year for the past four years. It’s a stretch of widening deficits not seen since the early 1980s, when the deficit exploded with President Ronald Reagan’s big tax cut.

For 2019, revenues grew 4%. But spending jumped at twice that rate, reflecting a deal that Trump reached with Congress in early 2018 to boost spending.

[In 2002, t]he economy slid into a mild recession, [then-] President George W. Bush pushed through a big tax cut and the war on terrorism sent military spending surging. Then the 2008 financial crisis erupted and triggered a devastating recession. The downturn produced the economy’s first round of trillion-dollar deficits under President Barack Obama and is expected to do so again under Trump.

The government’s interest payments on the debt were one of the fastest growing items in the budget, rising nearly 16% to $375.6 billion.

Economists note that today’s huge deficits are occurring when the economy is in a record-long economic expansion. This is unlike the previous stretch of trillion-dollar deficits, which coincided with the worst recession since the 1930s.

But analysts warn that if the economy does go into a recession, the huge deficits projected now will expand significantly — possibly to a size that would send interest rates surging.

This one’s dedicated for you, Dan Valenti:

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason – Thomas Paine.