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GOOD NEWS FOR PLANET READERS: NEW & IMPROVED VERSION OF SITE DEBUTS MONDAY!

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BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION OCT. 25-7, 2019) — We have exciting news to share about THE PLANET. Our new and improved site will debut Monday.

Ten years ago, we started this website as a writing exercise to warm up for our day’s assignments. They were never meant to be published, but eventually we realized people might find these little gems interesting.

In building THE PLANET, we had countless models and designs from which to choose. We went for simple and easy. The biggest decision was whether to allow comments. We heard convincing arguments from both sides. After listening to everyone, we went with our core philosophy of free speech. Since Day 1 of a journalistic career, we have  held special The Founders notion of a “marketplace of ideas.” Speech — written or spoken — should be free, bristly,  and unbridled.

Free speech won out here, and it caught on. What we had to say and what you had in response won an audience. From daily hits in the single digits, we are now up to nearly five figures a column. Your comments are a big part.

The Eagle has banned comments. iBerkshires will often tell you “Comments for this article have been suspended” on hot topics the site’s masters don’t want discussed. It’s interesting, too, that the five main stories iBerkshire plugs on its home page almost always have a combined comment total between 0 and 5. Few are reading, and fewer are moved to comment. In contract, our stories often spur triple-digits in comments.

As for the new, we overhauled a 10-year-old tech platform and invested in design changes to make the site easier to access and read, across all devices including mobile. Those who access the site with smart phones will find a “mobile-friendly” PLANET. In short, the new PLANET will be more secure, more relevant, easier to use, more reader-responsive, and more available.

[ED. NOTE: Activating the changes may require taking THE PLANET down for a few hours. We will coordinate the transfer during a period of minimal activity so few readers will be inconvenienced.]

One change we won’t make is access. PLANET VALENTI will continue to be free of charge. We won’t try to bribe you into subscriptions or offer “premium content” for a cost. You get on anytime, from anywhere, and it won’t cost you a cent.

Actually, the majority of work will happen “backstage,” including the installation of an SSL certificate to make your browsing safer and more secure. We will also be adding a long-sought feature: the ability to “vote” on content with thumbs up or thumbs down both on the main feature and individual comments. There’s a lot of other technical stuff we leave to the experts. You’ll also notice ads. They will help pay the freight and enable more investment in THE PLANET to make it more convenient for you.

Our expansion reflects the continued growth of this site in audience, influence, and information. We deliver content NO ONE ELSE HAS OR CAN GET. No one has more contacts and sources than THE PLANET. Your comments and feedback are read by the key decision makers in the region — all the way to Boston. On this site, YOU matter. YOU are the star. The changes we have forthcoming reflect that.

Our audience makes this site what it is. Our capital investment is proof of that.

We thank you. And yes, Aunt Millie will keep the window open.

Have a great weekend, everybody.

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn” — Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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Johnny99
Johnny99
4 years ago

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?

Spagirl
Spagirl
4 years ago

Dan
Looking forward to your updated site. The improvements will enhance an already great daily feature. Congratulations!

Johnny Absurd
Johnny Absurd
4 years ago

Dan this site has been a great venue for citizens to share thoughts, ideas and frustrations. Thank you for doing what no one else seems to want or care enough to do.

And I do think you deserve to be compensated one way or another. I do remember very well several years ago I wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper concerning a business that was ripping off elderly people and gave examples. I did not name the business but there are only a couple who do what they do and the paper refused to print it. Long story short, the local paper does not print criticisms of anyone who advertises with them. So one might try to buy protection from criticism by buying an ad. (by the way the city spends a small fortune at the Eagle)

Just saying

Hung Wang
Hung Wang
Reply to  danvalenti
4 years ago

Does that mean no condom ads?

The school committee
The school committee
4 years ago

Mayor Tyer should have read the Planet and she would not be losing her race for mayor.

Johnny99
Johnny99
Reply to  The school committee
4 years ago

She is spending a fortune on campaign cardboard. Perhaps she will have a nice big add with her beautiful green eyes, teeth as white as snow, and skin as smooth as silk, on Dan’s blog come Monday.

Hell Toupee
Hell Toupee
Reply to  danvalenti
4 years ago

It’s her program to increase recycling.

doomiedodger
doomiedodger
Reply to  The school committee
4 years ago

But she would still be an incompetent mayor

Truthsayer
Truthsayer
4 years ago

Thanks Dan for giving all of us the one place in this county where we can say what’s on our minds about any topic. The Planet is about the only place the PC jackasses haven’t squelched free speech.

Speaking of jackasses, I see Farley-Bouvier pulled her head out of Tyer’s fanny long enough to write an op-ed in The Eagle stating the case for the mayor to be reelected. That liberal loon Larry endorses Moe Tyer while Curly DA plans her next trip looking for ways to not charge criminals should be enough to make anyone check Mazzeo on the ballot.

Anyway, thanks a million Dan for giving us this true forum of the people.

Aerin
Aerin
Reply to  Truthsayer
4 years ago

Farley Bouvier’s op ed is an all time low for her and women. Mayor Tyer “cared” and is “engaged” and welcoming and collaborative. Give us a break. Where’s the beef? I’ll tell you where it is, on the fire. Pittsfield is burning but the mayor has a great “attitude.” That crap is not going to cut it anymore. We need someone who can get results-oriented about crime and fast. Tyer had her turn and what did she and TFB give us but an a DA that’s unfit for office?

Dynamic Vibrator
Dynamic Vibrator
Reply to  Aerin
4 years ago

She forgot to mention dynamic and vibrant. I hope Tyer wears TFB’s blue blazer for the next debate.

Paul
Paul
4 years ago

Sounds great Dan. Best of luck with the launch.

Pat
Pat
4 years ago

Looking forward to the new site Dan V.

Please do a future story on the 75 teachers that left the Pittsfield school system last year. These people must do exit interviews. I’m sure it’s confidential information, but aren’t there former teachers willing to talk. Isn’t some of this information available to the public?
Raising teacher salaries even higher than they already are will not solve the problems in the Pittsfield school system.

Mr. G
Mr. G
Reply to  Pat
4 years ago

Hey pat, where does your number come from? 75 teachers is a LOT to lose and you are absolutely correct, the inormation they could impart could prove invaluable in diagnosing the ills of the Pittsfield district. I wonder if a FOIA request would produce even redacted exit interview documents?

Johnny Absurd
Johnny Absurd
Reply to  Pat
4 years ago

First time I agree 100 percent with you Pat.

MMNS
MMNS
4 years ago

Dan,

How do I buy an ad? I may want to start a PAC called Marijuana Money for a New Station (MMNS) and start a petition drive for a refer-endum guestion so voters can mandate the spending of the marijunana money for a new police station. I would need to market this idea to toke up support.

Professor Snape
Professor Snape
4 years ago

Let’s be strait here. Any revenue that is gathered fro wherever..pot,home assessment will be pissed away by progressives. So be careful who you elect for City Council. Progressive now means Moving Forward..I don’t think young people today give a crap about those who built this place.

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Professor Snape
4 years ago

Bill Sturgeon talked for 20 minutes one day about a play he went to and his guest was staring in it said nothing.

tri Enge
tri Enge
4 years ago

Sturgeon is a bad interviewer. Blumin is outing the Stooge on his own show. Stooge is a Roberto now Tyer bootlicker. Next time I see him I’ll say it to his face. This is the stooge who I’ve seen twirling his cane,he’s
supposed to be disabled.

Thomas More
Thomas More
Reply to  tri Enge
4 years ago

Stooge’s wife gave $50.00 and his son gave $250.00 to the MelMaz campaign so you can’t be sure Stooge is totally on board with Tyre.

Ham Anex
Ham Anex
Reply to  Thomas More
4 years ago

He didn’t contribute because he needed the money for new knee pads.

Dick Would
Dick Would
4 years ago

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.

UAlbany
UAlbany
4 years ago

Thanks for your efforts DV !! This site provide invaluable info and insight for the BC community –

Mark Tully
Mark Tully
4 years ago

Thank you for this site, Dan. I look forward to seeing the new version!

Auto Phil
Auto Phil
4 years ago

Ahhhh…the dreaded format change, the new layout, more options…

I know it will be great. But be prepared for a bunch of people lamenting the old site…when it was all so much more simple…
(Change is hard, but necessary. What perfect timing.)

I can’t wait for the big unveil. Congrats!

EddieP
EddieP
Reply to  Auto Phil
4 years ago

But who is going to post their picture in their post?

Aerin
Aerin
4 years ago

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.

Joe
Joe
4 years ago

Keep up the great content, Dan. I enjoy all of the activity and discussion your site presents, especially that a lot of the topics you discuss cause differences in opinions among readers. There’s not many places left in the world where civil dialogue can happen!

PoliceReport
PoliceReport
4 years ago

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

Johnny Absurd
Johnny Absurd
Reply to  PoliceReport
4 years ago

Are you referring to documents like the mayors Oath of Office? Or city councilors Oath of Office? Cuz I be thinking that none of these people could tell you what was in it nor do they have any interest in having it read back to them. A meaningless formality if you will.

PoliceReport
PoliceReport
Reply to  Johnny Absurd
4 years ago

I mean documents like screen shots of texts, some of DA Andrea Harrington’s texts to staff are priceless.

Internal memos and email screenshots from folks on the inside of the mayors office and campaign.

Blare
Blare
4 years ago

No, I think he was probably referring to documents procured during his long, barely competent tenure in the DA’s office. Or maybe his law partner’s.

Boston Biggy
Boston Biggy
4 years ago

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.

Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
4 years ago

If the Ukranian gets in, maybe he can give himself that city painting work he’s been after for a while now.

Can the new Planet ban the term “GOBSIG”? Pretty freakin’ old and tiresome by now, no?

Oh, right, free speech. Darn.

But great to know that the only journalist within hundreds of miles is updating and improving this site.

Thanks, Dan!

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Edward R. Murrow
4 years ago

????????

Clark Clangor
Clark Clangor
4 years ago

Fast Eddie. Rumor is the new term will be be PIGS..progressive in-greats.

The school committee
The school committee
4 years ago

Tricia Bouvier sent her kids to lenox schools.She knew what Tyer doesn’t. Principle found innocent so Mccandless is staying.Mccandless is so so good a speaking.Im sure he tipped the scales in her favor.

Chris P. Bacon
Chris P. Bacon
Reply to  The school committee
4 years ago

The affable buffoon will continue to perform his magic here.

Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane
4 years ago

They have good schools in Lenox.

Why?

Hint: Check the median home price.

Thomas More
Thomas More
Reply to  Ichabod Crane
4 years ago

40% of the Lenox students are from other communities. The 2018 valedictorian was from Cascade St. in Pittsfield and the Salutatorian was from Becket. The school choice law was intended to give children from less advantaged districts an opportunity to attend a more advantaged district. Unfortunately, the folks from the inner cities for whom it was designed to help did not have the means to transport their children to these school. So, Farley-B and others of her ilk jumped at the opportunity to get their lily white offspring away from the riff-raff of the city they lived in costing there home town millions in tax money.

Dixie McCall
Dixie McCall
4 years ago

I hope the Planet update goes smoother that the BMC ER reception redo–terrible there today.

Barbados
Barbados
4 years ago

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.

This Just In
This Just In
4 years ago

From live 95.5

News broke last week that Superintendent of Pittsfield Public Schools, Dr. Jason McCandless, was seeking other opportunities in the eastern part of the state.

Although staying in Pittsfield was not out of the question, McCandless felt “in his gut” that it might be time for a change, according to iberkshires.com.

On Friday morning, Mayor Tyer announced on Slater and Marjo in The Morning that he will remain in Pittsfield as Superintendent.

Slater reached out to McCandless for comment.

I applied in three places interviewed three times and did a great deal of reflection and conversation with many people—most importantly my family. In the end, in spite of visiting three wonderful places, we decided that the Berkshires is home, Pittsfield is home and this is where I need and want to be right now. I feel very fortunate to serve here and and look forward to seeing our third child graduate from the Pittsfield Public Schools, and to keep working in a remarkable community. -Dr. Jason McCandless

McCandless came to Pittsfield in 2013 after being part of the Lee school system for 11 years.
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Thomas More
Thomas More
Reply to  This Just In
4 years ago

In other words, he didn’t get the job.

Mr. Fritz
Mr. Fritz
Reply to  This Just In
4 years ago

Oh darn…
Guess he didn’t get the job.

Stugent
Stugent
4 years ago

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

Fred Wheaties
Fred Wheaties
4 years ago

When you are a real journalist it doesn’t hurt to have the dough. And can’t be bought.

Hell Toupee
Hell Toupee
4 years ago

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?

Wally on Top
Wally on Top
4 years ago

What about councilors saying vote for Tyer it’s the same thing. It might be Stooges show but guess who’s paying for it. Anyone that you don’t oppose,I vote against anyway, and Blumin doesn’t bootlick anyone’s boot. He doesn’t have a yellow streak in him. I’m another who cannot stand propaganda and bias. Stooge, why were you offered a comp on a taxpayer show at the Sheriffs Toy Drive?

Don Q
Don Q
4 years ago

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

Buddy Bud
Buddy Bud
4 years ago

Outdoor growing of marijuana lowers property values, smells like skunk and can create breathing with asthma more. If also creates an environment for vandalism and could put people in the area at risk by encountering thieves. NIMBY yes, he’ll yes on these type of operations.

Jonathan Melle
Jonathan Melle
4 years ago

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

Garden Wead
Garden Wead
4 years ago

Have you ever noticed where there is a controversial unpopular decision concerning permits, for Cannabis-weed,or new water regulations,it’s always the state that decides what will happen. There is never any,ANY collaboration or give and take when it always effects the taxpayers pockets. This also includes things like school funding,tifs and grants or anything else. Politicians or a morjority of them,side with the state first. Gobsigs,like Lawyers.

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  danvalenti
4 years ago

Is that why when a stupid law introduced, like plastic straw bans they have Smitty or Tricia Farley Buffoon do it?

School Choice
School Choice
4 years ago

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

SallySays
SallySays
Reply to  School Choice
4 years ago

Where did you get this information?

Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
4 years ago

It is only Saturday . . . But, nope, don’t like it already. Looks like most other online forums. Why do we need that?

Old way was better, easier to follow and easier to keep track of the entire thread and also subthreads within.

Ham Anex
Ham Anex
4 years ago

The white (not Pete) background is harsh on the eyes.

Her
Her
4 years ago

This is so much easier to read on my iPhone and iPad. This will bring a much broader audience your way. Thank you. It was a struggle to read before, but was always interested in your content.

SallySays
SallySays
4 years ago

Dan, very nice site. Will you be offering a app? And is the dark haired bearded dude you in the 60’s, or Charles Manson?

Blare
Blare
Reply to  danvalenti
4 years ago

Dan,
How funny. A long message I posted last night has disappeared. Strange, the ideals you preach so self-righteously don’t seem to include censorship of opposing arguments. No matter anyway. Your “sources” have been outed. Burying your head in the sand is not going to help them.

truthsayer
truthsayer
4 years ago

From the “If Lawn Signs Can Vote” Department: Today, we drove around to do some shopping and covered 4 major streets in the city. Tyer: 34 signs. Mazzeo: 89

Note that those lawns that had 2 and 3 signs (even 4) for any candidate were only counted as 1 sign. This was also the trend last year when Squeaky Harrington (a show pony and “My Little Pony” at best) beat DA Caccaviello (a real prosecutor).

We did the same in North Adams the year Barrett was defeated by Alcombright. Can’t wait to see how it all shakes out.

Jonathan Melle
Jonathan Melle
4 years ago

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.

Johnny99
Johnny99
Reply to  Jonathan Melle
4 years ago

Why should we tax the wealthy more? They already pay way more than the average Joe. There’s plenty of lower income people who pay no tax. Everyone, and that includes you, should be paying the same percentage, if not the same raw amount. How about we cut spending on the deadbeats and layabouts and eliminate the free breakfast at school, and the free lunch, and the welfare cash, and the free groceries and the free phones, etc. MAGA

Jonathan Melle
Jonathan Melle
Reply to  danvalenti
4 years ago

October 27, 2019

Re: Open letter to blogger Dan Valenti 27Oct2019

Dear Dan Valenti,

I really enjoy reading your blog about Pittsfield politics and beyond. The thing I admire most about your journalism is that you allow for different viewpoints, unlike other online news media web-sites, such as the one-sided The Berkshire Eagle online.

However, I wholly disagree with your posting in response to my posting and related postings about annual trillion dollar federal government budget deficits.

You wrote:

“The rich, as you point out, generally pay proportionately more in taxes as it is. Those with money also provide much of the resources and momentum that keep the economy going. Higher taxes for the rich is an emotional appeal that reason and numbers do not support.” – Dan Valenti

My response:

The federal government is fiscally irresponsible to add one trillion dollars in budget deficits each and every year over the next decade. It is no different than when Napoleon ran France’s printing presses. President Trump and the U.S. Congress is printing money out of thin air. I do not believe our huge national debt will ever be paid off in our lifetimes. The federal government is placing the economic and financial burdens of today onto our children, grandchildren, and beyond.

The federal government’s interest payments on the debt in the federal budget rose nearly 16% to $375.6 billion. That is a lot of taxpayer money for one fiscal year on getting nothing in return for the peoples’ hard-earned money!

In closing, supply side economics failed! Trickle down economics only benefits the wealthy. It is time to raise taxes on the wealthy to lower annual budget deficits and the huge national debt.

– Jonathan Melle

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Johnny99
4 years ago

Regressives are writing tax law for the wealthy.

Johnny2Shoes
Johnny2Shoes
Reply to  Jonathan Melle
4 years ago

If they do tax the rich more it will be used for the programs that the current field of presidential candidates are pushing for. Not one dime will go towards reducing the national debt. Entitlement programs really are the problem and should be addressed. If they would just start with the fraud alone it would be a good start. Spending is the problem and not what the government is taking in.

CC The Maze Sun
CC The Maze Sun
4 years ago

Awesome Dan!
“What did you see when you were there?
Nothing that doesn’t show”

Delbeot
Delbeot
4 years ago

Great site Planet

Webzine
Webzine
4 years ago

https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/vigilance-is-name-of-anti-hacking-game-in-north-adams,588522

I’m not really getting the Beagles fascination with the North Adams’s website. Basically this lady is just buying the same template website all the other towns use.
Not one critical government system is hosted on the web server.
Town clerk, not hosted on the website and is controlled by the state.
Payment processing hosted by UNIPAY a third party vendor.
Assessors system, not hosted and controlled by a third party vendor.
Tax system, not hosted and controlled by a third party vendor.
All the city of North Adam’s website is is a collection of links to other hosted services and a collection of state created documents. It’s not rocket science to get hosting from a company over 1/2 the municipal governments use in MA.
There’s got to be some other thing going on because no one dedicates that much ink to a website conversion.
Is she dating the writer of the articles?

Pat
Pat
4 years ago

Unbelievable capture of ISIS leader by President Trump and our heroic soldiers. The military coordination of our soldiers was perfect. Great job by all.

Steve Stricker
Steve Stricker
Reply to  Pat
4 years ago

OMG lol, I just spit out my Coffee when I read this. Of Course great job by our Heroic Soldiers but to include Donald Bonespurs in this Statement is Ludicrous. I thought Bonespurs didn’t trust our intelligence agencies? He is like the kid who gets in trouble at school. He knows he is going to get in trouble when his parents get home so he tries to to lessen the blow by cleaning his room and taking out the trash. Only this draft dodging Fool didn’t have to do any of the work or incur any of the risks……. Semper Fi

Brody Hooper
Brody Hooper
Reply to  Steve Stricker
4 years ago

Hi Matt. Still a thief?

Pat
Pat
Reply to  Steve Stricker
4 years ago

President Trump trusts the intelligence agencies just fine when they aren’t working against him. As we see, they can be very effective when working together. Nobody works harder than President Trump. Not everybody needs to join the military to be an effective leader.

Brian C. Marqquis
Brian C. Marqquis
4 years ago

Our Planet is evolving. Protect our Planet; it’s where we live!

Brian C. Marqquis
Brian C. Marqquis
4 years ago

This one’s dedicated for you, Dan Valenti:

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

Liq Inke
Liq Inke
4 years ago

Looks like The Doctor is still in the house. Vote Mazzeo.

singig
singig
4 years ago

Someone wake up highway there’s a flood by big y again. Come on Mayor?

Cocotrophy
Cocotrophy
4 years ago

The content is true blue,but this new sight cannot be read as I have sensitivity to light.