EVEN WHEN SHE’S RIGHT, SHE’S POLITICAL
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY NOV. 30, 2020) — Even when Berkshire County district attorney Andrea Harrington advocates for a much-needed adjustment of courtroom policy, she manages to taint the corrective with self-serving politics. As she herself unwittingly reveals, she’s “acting.”
Case in point, Harrington’s Nov. 18 letter sent to Justice Paula Carey, chief justice of the Trial Court; Jonathan Williams, court administrator; and the Trial Court in Boston. In the letter, Harringon points to a serious backlog of jury trials due to the COVID-19 virus and a lack of secure locations for trials to be held. Here’s the full text:
THE PLANET applauds the intent of the letter and commends Harrington for taking action. As she states, the local D.A. does not have the power to unilaterally impose local conditions that meet the protocols of the Trial Court. Berkshire County needs help from Boston.
The problem with the letter can be found in the “cc”s. No less than 20 people are copied in. Some can be justified, such as judges Agostini, Vrabel, Smyth, and McMenemy, as well as the two state associations for trial lawyers. But the governor? Why on earth would he be copied in, except to serve as political promotion? This was a point made to THE PLANET by our sources among the local legal community. Also, since we need help in Boston, why wouldn’t she copy in the Berkshire County reps to the General Court?
One source put it this way: “It’s an admission of what I think we all know. Andrea’s basically saying these guys [Sen. Ben Downing and reps John Barrett, Tricia Farley-Bouvier, Paul Mark, and Smitty Pignatelli] have no sway on the [Beacon] Hill. It’s funny. You’ve got people who have been there for years but they might as well be back-benchers.”
This is from one of our Perry Masons, whom we asked for help in understanding the letter:
The need to get in person jury sessions up and running is great and AH is right to demand some action. There are too many people held indefinitely as “dangerous” under 58A who want a speedy jury trial. As a defense lawyer, I would be demanding a non-virtual jury trial and if not provided within statutory “speedy trial” times, would be moving to dismiss. I have heard from my sources that the DA’s office is freaking out about Carnevale case that got started just prior to COVID shutdown with jury and all and then had to end in a mistrial due to mandated shutdown. Apparently, witnesses for the prosecution are “forgetting” facts, since the mistrial and the DA’s office may very well lose this case. Not good. So, yes, she is right to go on record with this, although cc’ing the Governor is ridiculous and possibly a political attention grab. On a side note, had to pull out air sickness bag upon reading the words “justice actors.” She is ridiculous.
Good point.
“Justice actors.”
Words sometimes reveal more than the writer intends.
“Actors.”
Harrington [or her flack, Andy McKeever] could have used many other words — officials, officers, personnel, professionals, or even more direct appellations such as judges, lawyers, and the like. To refer to legal work as “acting” seems to reveal Harrington’s true feelings about the D.A. position. She’s acting.
Another lawyer sent us this note:
Thank you for Planet Valenti. I think your work provides invaluable feedback to those in power. And I do think the average Joe is forgotten. You hit the nail on the head re: “justice actor.” Freudian slip. Too bad a true professional did not succeed in getting that job. All the white ladies who lunch think AH is darling. As we know, there are some very dangerous folks out there … . and the clown car cavalry is outmatched.
The [constitutional] Right to a Speedy Trial is complicated because there are “excluded” times from calculation including closures due to COVID. See Commonwealth v. Lougee. General rule: delay helps defense, civilian prosecution witnesses forget or lose interest or change their minds about testifying.
AND, one other Harrington special: her claim of convictions on domestic abuse cases where victim did not testify. On at least one of those cases, it was a plea, not a trial (therefore the victim would not have to speak) and judge went with defense sentence recommendation and not prosecution. Hardly a “win.” But the Eagle does not fact check McKeever’s releases.
“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic” — Cartoonist Bill Watterson.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.
LOVE TO ALL.
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Of course she’s Political? Her first ambition was to be a State Senator.
If you really knew her, her first ambition was to marry rich. That’s all she talked about. The woman empowerment is just an act.
A DA who is political is dangerous because she can hand out justice according to her political commitments. It’s not about her ambition. That is not even the point.
Not to nitpick but why did she use the word germs? Sounds unprofessional, highschoolish.
She was going to use the word cooties but couldn’t figure out if it was cooties or kooties
Very good
I’m really shocked she didn’t use the word, cooties.
The Trial Courts have been exploring a number of different alternative methods and locations for jury trials. This has been going on for months. They send out routine information emails about this information, so it’s an outright lie that they have not updated anyone about plans.
In fact just prior to this letter, PR flack piece, the Trial Court had notified her office that they were close to a solution. Her release of this letter was timed to make it seem like her letter actual had an impact on action that had been taking place.
This is a preemptive action to place blame on the Trial Court for her offices failure to secure future convictions.
Actor is a term of art for the legal profession. It is not incorrect to use it but it shows a lack of contextual understanding of actor and the inferred “bad actor”.
Another thing not to overlook, her use of the word “investment”. When she goes over budget expect the those “expenses” to be the reason.
The cc’ing of Lawyers Weekly is much more telling, it’s a way to get her name “out there”.
Does she really sign her title Berkshire District Attorney and leaves out the county.
Yes, the word “actor” reveals a lot.
You both sound like scorned teenage girls. Nitpicking at its finest! sideline QB whatever fits. White jealous Men so sad grow up!
Just constructive criticism. She needs help.
Why is it whenever certain people disagree with something that a certain group of society all of a sudden just uses the jealous white men argument. You don’t know who’s behind these keyboards
Scapegoat that’s why. There’s money in grants for racism/equality.
Yes your right about that. A diversity coach makes good coin. Imagine what the ones who own and run these programs are making. We have so many fields they work in now.
Climate change inequality, Housing inequality, Education inequality, Employment inequality, Financial inequality, Green inequality, Business inequality, Food inequality, Health inequality, Justice inequality and so many others .
It is the fastest growing field out there.
Putting this Country outta business with the incessant solicitation for more forgiven funding – grant seeking and/or soliciting money from philanthropists is not a job ? It’s not work ? A soliciting permit is required btw & so how do they legally pan handle – illegal solicitation ? You can not solicit funds w/o going to Mass.Gov for permits –
And also,
“criminalizing poverty” –
vagrancy, btw is already criminal. Already been done 272/66
SIG lot of actors all in line with [modus operandi]
If Trump does not say it then no words are worthy .Yesterday the right wing want to be dictator demanded the Republican Governor of Arizona throw out votes for Senator ex Vice President Biden.His Coup attempt is failing at every turn.When your a journalist how can this historic event not be written about here everyday .The hold Donald Trump has on his supporters is also historic in that no supporter wants any evidence they criticized his attempts to overthrow the US GOVERMENT. This denial is a tatic to surpress the events unfolding before your eyes.You cant deny what is going on unless you have a cultish fear of the leader.
Trump owns you. You can’t stop thinking about him.
And what of his attempts to throw out votes of the American citizens?Maybe you believe he lost.
Just the fraudulent ones that got counted for China Joe Xiden
Not everything needs to relate to Trump.
At this point none of your rants even carry meaning.
Why is it ok to dance in Park Square or drink at Yukis but not to do her job?
cc: McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak.
That’s LA Law, it’s a joke
Trump suit thrown out in Pennsylvania by another republican as they are disgusted with these frivolous no evidence accusations.NEXT
Biden broke his foot.
Was he trying to pull it out of his mouth?
Just a man playing with his dog.Trump hates dogs.
Heard he was trying to walk and chew gum at the same time.
Trump owns your mind. You’re obsessed.
and many of them being thrown out by judges he and McConnell hand picked. What does that tell ya?
That they are Swamp Creatures and RINOs.
The SCOTUS will make things fair and right for ELIGIBLE voters.
Take your pick of 12 eyewitnesses to the fraud in one place, TCF Center in Detroit. There are hundreds of sworn affidavits, and that’s just in one country:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCekdKDk6d8opUrUEXtXD4XQ/videos
This has Obummer’s dirty hands all over it. Alinsky . . .
What you do is take a packet of 50 ballots and run them through the tabulator. Then take the same stack and run them through again. Do that 8 to 10 times for 100+ packets of 50 ballots.
Rudy at hearing in AZ today. Powell looking into fraud in Virginia now.
How did Trump get 73,000,000 afraid people to vote.Fraud in his numbers.
Rut Roh.
My experience with Covid and the way BMC failed us.
I got covid, I don’t know how, I don’t suspect I will ever know. I work a regular job, in an office I’ve got a husband and two children, they got it too.
One day I started coughing, it was a small but persistent cough. I didn’t think much of it until 5 days later when it hurt to even breathe. I immediately isolated and I called my primary care, they said get tested. I tried. It took four calls to the “hotline” and a note from my primary care to get tested.
Getting tested took two days of effort. I drove myself and got tested, one nurse told me I’d be notified if I tested positive, another told me I’d be notified either way and gave me instructions and a pamphlet on how to check electronically.
I got my results three days later, no one called, there was no follow-up, I got my results by myself online, I can provide those results for verification.
After testing positive I wanted my family to get tested, it was like pulling teeth. My family had spent a hundred or more hours in close contact with me, 5 days of coughing before I isolated and probably 3 days before that I was actually sick.
More calls to their pediatrician and my primary care got them tests. Same thing, no one called. We got our test results online. Thankfully everyone’s symptoms were mild or non-existent. No major issues for us, mild fever, cough, I had it the worst my chest just hurt constantly, and still does. It took 5 more calls and almost a month to get scheduled follow up tests to check if we were negative. No one ever called with results or tracing, no work history or anything, where I’d been, names of people I work with.
No one ever asked what school my kids went to, they ride a bus every day to school, the public health nurse didn’t call, the school nurse didn’t call. When I called the school to let them know, the school nurse seemed like she couldn’t be bothered. She said she gets her results directly and she would wait and see.
I’m writing this because I finally did get a call.
BMC called to confirm my insurance because they had a problem with submitting the bills, I think they had the wrong prefix or an older plan number for my children.
I live in a small town, I’ve looked at the numbers everyday on the states website. My town never went up. If you read the formula and based on the population in my town 1400 people, our 4 cases would have pushed us up out of grey.
My town still says 13 cases, it has before we got tested, and still says 13 cases. They know da toy where I live. I don’t live on Rt 41 or parts of town that have a Pittsfield mailing address.
I don’t have much faith in this process. I have zero faith in the public health and school nurse, zero faith in the tracing program, it was very difficult to get testing and we all tested positive.
We had to lie about how bad our symptoms were and then had to get doctors notes to get a test. They were more concerned with billing than our actual health. We were lucky.
Thank you for your post. One wonders how many more there are out there like you. It seems like no one is in charge sometimes. Is there a particular office or person in Berkshire County who is the head authority on such things?
And now that people are dying locally it is hard to figure the numbers. They keep saying “new deaths”, or “new cases” without really giving a timeline. What the hell does “new” mean? New since yesterday? New since 1918? Stop with the word games because it makes it look like someone is afraid the truth might come out.
(talking to you Eagle)
This is another of those great, unreported stories that should be on the assignment editor’s first-priority list.
That is BMS all over. The worst care and the greed. I’m glad you are all ok.
The role of district attorney should never ever be political. But, Berkshire county elected THE most politically ambitious person in the area, who could honestly care less about what title she had as long as it was a title. She pointed over and over again (some might argue this tipped the scales for her) about a lack of criminal prosecutions at Williams college, she gets elected and then aligns herself with this cultural organization. I again ask, if this had been a male teacher, would she have been this forgiving? Had there since been any charges brought forward that weren’t brought by the previous administration? It’s really too bad the Berkshires doesn’t have any real reporters, who can truly dig into something, and then right a clear, concise article sticking to facts. Further, if there were, depending on who they are, freedom Freddie would shut em down anyway!
http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/09/14/teacher_in_abuse_suit_defends_actions/
Where dat philanthropists trust fund at GoFundYourself !
That pesky falsified report is looming – pointing at the first person that comes to mind [insert 'the bird' emoji]
This pesky report? Do you think Andrea wouldn’t have used it if it was a Capeless supporter? Do you think it’d be looked at differently if genders were reversed?
No, I meant – the other report that a woman claimed she was assaulted at Simon’s Rock which turned out to be false. Sure did provide anew job security for those in the field.
I apologize, I misunderstood your statement.
Whatever happened with the case of the letter that someone supposedly left that caused a racial stir at Williams College recently? Haven’t heard much.
Exact !
And, what’s the proof it was falsified. She admits to having two children with him, so what’s your proof?
Janie – See my comment, We have two reports on the table now.
Could get an accurate date of the sex act by hiring an expert witness to extrapolate the data to conception.
People accused always say “I waited”…. Ya ok, that primal desire to perpetrate inappropriate contact – suddenly you’re overwhelmed with the strong desire to be Saintly, oh geez this person is still a child, lemme wait until age of consent- GTFOH
S I C K
Expert Witness = Date Calculator
Define ‘having’
BREAKING NEWS: DA’s are elected officials and yes they are Dems or Rep try to keep up.
Probably all the more reason to have DA appointed as are judges. Reduces political BS.
Breaking News: DA’s are normally competent.
Harrington can’t even figure out a speeding ticket
Holy Smokes. That’s Gwendolyn Hampton Vansant and I never knew. Having sex with a student when you have been his/her teacher and 5 or mores years have not passed since that time is just plain wrong. Having two children with said former student, wrong also. You are so right to call out the hypocrisy of Harrington’s alignment with Vansant while condemning the lack of prosecutions at Williams College. Is this fact about Vansant well-known?
I don’t think so, I wonder how the dates of this coincides with the opening of her organization?
That is worth looking into. Jeesh. At the very best, she has exercised terrible judgment.
Was a settlement reached. Why was this story removed – is it public information about someone in our public spotlight, a fiscal intermediary whom people are supporting ? I’m so off ended – perpetrating a fraud many of these actors.
I’m guessing no.
What a shit way to uproot a person for their ENTIRE LIFE.
? Are you referring to the student or the teacher
Are you serious. The student’s life is forever uprooted, meaning family tree etc. A man doesn’t just have babies and give them away – not even knowing ? That is Fuxed up to do to a young man, esp. your student for God sake – supposed to take care of him – that blows my mind. Seems we have no problem parenting everyone else’s kids though. This story is too much, seriously – I will double up on therapy. She knew it was short lived – babies……. I’m sure they are loved, that’s all the Peace I can conjure. I trusted her. I trusted everything. This place ain’t worth fighting for anymore – go fund this
I wonder if there’s a way to research how much her new organization gets in state funding to fund the position she created shortly after this was put out there.
Just wasn’t sure who you were referring to. I agree that it is ruinous for a student to be used in that way.
All of Berkshire County is aligned w/”.
Restaurant owners in Pittsfield want answers from the mayor about re-opening for inside dining.
She is staying silent. Why?
because she can
Not funny.
not meant to be funny
Nobody would listen to my …….
I busted my Dad out of Fairview Commons – took his ass right on out of that place. In a wheelchair. Cops, Firefighters, Ambulance on me for hours, surrounding my home – NOT MY DAD ! Take care of your disabled family – what a f* shame. My Dad! Was a rough road getting him to the appointments after that, I did it. My baby in his stroller, carrying his car seat around, with my Dad in a cabulance, wheelchair bound I pushed my Dad and my Baby through the Dr. Office – carrying also a baby bag – learning how to do his meds & testing with the nurse – Dad’s home today. This is real. Nothing to DO WITH CORONA. NOTHING TO DO WITH CORONA !
And all I wanted was a Pepsi and they just wouldn’t give it to me!
Coca-cola kegger !
My writing style is insane, I see it too. – I meant I had to escape my parent out of the nursing home & it was tough then trying to manage his needs on my own. But I saved his life. & this is not due to covid. The conditions there were unacceptable. Point being they operate in secrecy & its unsafe there.
Are you saying they want to open in the middle of a double surge pandemic? Cuz I side with the mayor on this one. It is never going to go away or even abate if we keep the spread zones open. Also, sick people do not go out to eat and guess what, neither do dead ones. Do you want to go down in history as the resturant that helped spread the virus and then everyone hates you and will not go near your place of business? Like the one on North street?
Janie – GOBSIGS are allowed to have sexual relations with whom ever pleases them.
What’s a GOBSIG?
Good ol boy special interest group – that is my take – it’s not in the Oxford.
Word, if you are in the clique
Why burden the people that had nothing to do with it?
There were four places that pushed that pandemic, portsmits, zucchini’s and roasted garlic, and methuselah.
No need to punish everyone for the few.
If we are gonna close things down close down the nursing homes. Close down BMC elective surgeries. They are both death traps.
Yah dude, I am afraid the words pandemic, virus and highly contagious go right over your head. So I can’t help ya. It just makes me so sad when I see the nurses and doctors on TV trying to handle the overflowing intensive care units. They are being put through hell because a lot of people just don’t want to be inconvienced. Nobody said life was fair. Nobody said life woud always be a bowl of cherries. Shit happens and people suffer but no one should be dragging others down with them.
So you are saying the restaurants that violated health protocols that worked for 9 months shouldn’t risk their patrons lives.
That the few who fucked up shouldn’t drag down the rest who did everything right.
That out of 351 cities and towns in the entire state, many with much more dire Covid outlooks we were the ONLY one that closed restaurants for dine in. I totally get it, you’re right. They shouldn’t. Where your wrong is none of what was done had any impact on public health, was not founded in the numbers.
Portsmits closed on its own and all they had to do was shut down yukis and the sold autos for a couple weeks.
The argument from restaurant owners is that they followed all of the safety protocols and played by the rules yet now are being asked to shut down during the only time that will carry them through winter.
This isn’t a federal or state order, it is coming from the dictator in the corner office that doesn’t have a clue on how to run a business. Rather then single out her buddy on the counsel who was responsible for a large amount of this mess, she is shutting down everyone who spent their own money to be able to safely operate.
Now you have people spending money in other areas of the county and guess what? When Pittsfield is allowed indoor dining some day again, many of those customers still will not return because they found other options. This is why you see restaurants rarely take long extended breaks, because the second you close, your regulars go somewhere else and discover something different and go to your place less.
We have lost a large amount of our small local restaurants and this is going to be the nail in the coffin for a bunch of others. Something tells me Hotel on North, Dottie’s, and Methuselah will probably be OK though.
Great job Tyer, go have another dance party in the park.
Why should restaurants have to pay a penalty for a city councilor running a speak easy after hour drunken bar party.Also the city councilor should come out and say that restaurants should not be penalized for her breaking the law.This was apparently a well known illegal alcohol bar…..She also needs to resign as a councilor.Im sure all her colleagues agree she is not a good decision maker.Why should the Highland pay for the city councilors illegal behavior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5UM6EFPW_M
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Let’s hope the mayor gets that message too.
The owners should file a group lawsuit against Tyer. That will get action.
Everybody knows this is about two things.
Messing with Mazzeo’s because Barry’s wasting money on a case he’s already lost.
Covering for Yuki and the swingers club.
There’s a LOT more going on with that swingers thing than people understand.
Look at what local pols hangs out with Yuki all the time. How did Yuki get a parklet?
Well maybe, we haven’t considered – what if the board of health is shut down ? Something to that effect ? What bureau over-sees the BoH ? Sounds like an off track suggestion but just consider it.
I’m trying to picture Pete White and Caccomo at a swingers party.
They probably like to get spanked. Tyer has been spanking both of them all along and they seem to like it. Along with big Pete.
Tell us more SaYuki.
CT PMG
Biden didn’t just break his foot, he had a mini stroke and fell down three stairs. Secret service found him unresponsive after the fall.
They said it was a sprain no break, then it was a break because they don’t boot you like that for a simple sprain. They aren’t telling the truth. They left out the mini stroke.
My thoughts and prayers are with Biden. God help us all if Harris become President
Did you seriously think that Biden would be president? Even if the election turns in his favor – he will not be in office long!
I heard he was kneecapped by Guiliani.
Also heard that Guiliani has just gotten the lead role in a remake of the epic Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Kommie-ala,tripped him at the top of the stairs.
China Joe Xiden won’t last 4 years as POTUS
Harris was honor back for her college football team.
Hunter used the crack back block . Was the hunchback # 19? Also the Rudy who went to Notre Dame played half back not hunchback.
Let’s compromise. Half-assed hunchback.
She is 9 times smarter than Pence and he is 2 times smarter than Trump
And You make a rock look like Einstien
Harris didn’t push him very hard, as this was just a test to see what happens after 1/20 accident.
JS2
Funny stuff!
Proof please or don’t post.
22 hours ago he was in the hospital and had a series of radiographs and a cranial CT scan.
19 hours ago they said he sprained his ankle and went out of their way to say he “did not break his foot” CNN and Washington Post.
Also said he did not fall and hit his head.
17 hours ago they changed it to injured his foot and may need a walking boot for a couple weeks
10 hours ago they said he had a hairline fracture in his foot and will required a walking boot for several weeks.
When asked why, if he did not fall on his head or hit his head, why did he have a CT scan on his head, they did not answer. Later they mentioned he complained of dizziness, and that was scrubbed from CNN about 30 minutes after it was posted.
Link please
Mini brain, mini stroke.
Hair line fracture as reportrd everywhete.You get a boot for 2 to 3 weeks.Your on Fox entertainment channel
Like I said the timeline is what it is.
They said it wasn’t a fracture, then it was. He got a CT scan for his head and foot.
They scrubbed the head part. It’s not a couple weeks, it several. As in 5 or more.
He went from one clinic to a neurologist and get the CT scans.
Lucky for everyone – I do not know how to post documents here.
Which is the lesser of two evils? Andrea Harrington that never stops talking and every word out of her mouth is a lie or Linda Tyer who goes silent 99% of the time to the taxpayers but when she does speak it is a lie. Channel 10 Albany news just stated that they have reached out to the Mayor’s office pertaining to why she is still not communicating to restaurant owners or even updating them on when they can open for in side dining and guess what, she has not responded to the news station!? Why no response once again, she has two assistants that we pay for, they can’t respond? CC Vice President Peter White lies on public TV and states the Mayor updates the taxpayers every Friday. Wake up and stop butt kissing Peter, you have been caught lying to the taxpayers big time. Mayor Sheehan of Albany and Mayor Sarno of Springfield update their taxpayers every day sometimes more than that on Covid 19. Goes to show that the Mayor of Tyerville is way out of her element. Also, where is Governor Baker? The last time he visited Tyerville was last March and he basically kicked the Mayor back in shape. Time for another visit Governor or maybe taxpayers should group together and campaign for a vote of no confidence against the Mayor and all but two of the City Council. Our City we all use to call Pittsfield is one step from death.
She’s in Colorado. She doesn’t have time to run the city.
Is the Mayor really in Colorado now? That is a MAJOR problem if so. You shut down restaurants in our area because of Covid concerns, yet you can travel back and forth across the country?
How tone deaf can you possibly be.
and does she have a private jet service paid for by the taxpayers? I mean, would it surprise anyone?
She’s there with Barry. He’s going to QB the Broncos.
Why was that detail omitted at city hall today via the aides.
Told you bozos G E stock 10 + today.
This mayor is a lame duck and could give a shit about what the taxpayers think. She knows she can gouge them and there is not a gotdamn thing they can do about it. Anyone who has been following the bouncing red ball that is her term in office knows she is in this game for herself. And when her term is up and she gets on that plane going west she will probably give double fingers to the city of Pittsfield. (except for the treasurer who will be cutting her lucrative pension checks)
JA,
You don’t think she will run again ? Part of me thinks she will run again.
She’ll run again. She needs the years of service for her pension.
Or maybe she will pull a Trump and just refuse to leave office. She seems the type.
Maybe she’ll tell us a story about palmists or corn pop.
It depends on where she falls on the pension chart.
Rn run run you have the votes.
How about Snow white John krol is he back to save us all? barf
SARCASM: Prior to the lovely Linda Tyer and Andrea Harrington, Pittsfield and Berkshire County did not have any problems. Blame Linda & Andrea for every political issue and criminal justice problem! All other career politicians than Linda and Andrea are selfless and they all work only for We the People instead of their own benefit. Linda and Andrea are only in it for their own political careers. Someday in the future, Linda and Andrea will retire with 6-figure public pensions, while the hard hit taxpayers will still have no choice but to pound sand. Even Covid19 was caused by the current Mayor of Pittsfield (Mass.) and Berkshire County District Attorney. They are to blame for everything that is wrong in the entire World!
Let’s just say they are not helping the situation. Ok?
The idea is to solve problems not create new ones.
Melle, your hero Karl Marx;
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/30/karl-marxs-shameful-life-repudiates-his-evil-ideology/
Oh, there was problems ,they just compounded them. Remember they are the ones who chose to run and represent. When you don’t take care of old problems as promised and make new ones your bound to have an even bigger mess. Oh, the voice of the voters doesn’t stop after being elected. Suck it up butter cup. Your easy! They show you a little leg and your done!
Rumor is Krol can’t run or the lid will be blown off the real reason he quit city council and was banished to Boston.
One of the pan handlers could beeat Tyer if he/she promises to do a forensic audit. I would vote for Barry if he promised to do one as long as he stayed out from behind the counter while it was going on.
Tyer taught Hiden China Joe Xiden.
Resturants are all open in China. But then again they had leadership. Oh well.
Do you get free can soda for China takeout?
You could also move to China and take all the Marxists in this country with you to the communist country that all of you worship. Those communist dictators are people to be admired with their brutal style of leadership.
Are you including Donald Trumps bosom buddy Vladmir Putin? Or does he get a break cuz he be Trumps bro?
More like the lesser of two weasels.
https://wupe.com/closed-berkshire-mall-could-be-used-as-a-site-for-jury-trials/?fbclid=IwAR0YNJX9Tk4ryAjH6tUsTG-iq74sRdCQIF-nz-WqdLSUPjPuUAWBW_NP-Pw
Well, this article that you linked confirms an earlier posting on this thread that AH’s superiors were already “on it” about finding alternate jury trial location and certainly gives weight to the argument that the only reason AH sent out her tiny fist-pounding demand is pure politics. God, will some decent attorney come out of the shadows and save the county from this hack? Please….
Betsey, go have another Martini
It’s Pittsfield Tonight
Local restaurant owners Craig Benoit (The Hot Dog Ranch), Tony Mazzeo (Mazzeo’s Ristorante), Pasquale Arace (The Highland Restaurant), Mickey Saldato (The Roasted Garlic & Zucchinis), Paul Capitanio (East Side Cafe) and a few others went to City Hall today to ask for the mayor to come out from her office and speak with them for just a few minutes. They were hoping to present her with a petition signed by over 20 local restaurant owners asking for her to lift the ban on indoor dining. Mayor Tyer declined to speak with them today, but agreed to a Zoom conference meeting tomorrow at 11:30am to discuss the issue further. Please call your city councilors and support your local restaurant owners.
Soldalto has a lot of nerve his two restaurants, his wife and two daughters made part of this an issue. They stayed open for an extra week and the daughters serve people while knowingly having Covid.
Good for the restaurant owners.
I hope they slap Tyer with a lawsuit.
Parents, demand the schools reopen!
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/28/195-million-chinese-students-are-in-school-why-arent-our-kids/
Open the schools!
NYC schools OPEN!
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/30/fauci-flip-flops-on-in-person-learning-after-ignoring-data-on-low-covid-spread-in-schools/
Yeah right. Tyers doing the right thing. But she herself needs to stay home.
This is what is so infuriating! Rules only apply to those who don’t make them. Going on all over the country.
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2020/12/01/l-a-board-of-supervisors-sheila-kuehl-dines-out-at-il-forno-trattoria-after-voting-to-ban-outdoor-dining-n287390
Just wondering if Tyer’s basement is anything like Biden’s basement? If you have a dog Linda don’t hurt your ankle playing with it.
Josh Landes reports ·
JUST IN: Hillcrest Commons has 127 residents & 46 employees with COVID as of Sunday.
Great leadership job all involved.
The staff, most of whom had few if any symptoms, spread it to some very ill and elderly patients. All the large gatherings in the community prior to the outbreak, spread this virus to the staff. These elderly were not protected from the virus.
Consider that these staff, possibly asymptomatic, would be eating out at resturants if they were open. I know it seems draconian to close indoor dining but it seems prudent for the time being. These cases exploded quickly and are expected to get worse.
This means that everyone will make sure they get their vaccine when it becomes available to all.
I am not getting the one Trump and his family are invested in. No way in hell with this guys track record. Could be Russian hooker urine for all I know.
Liz Warren and others want us to redefine Freedom. Freedom isn’t living under the thumb of big corporations according to Liz, but rather living under the thumb of big government. Considering that big corporations and government now seem to be working together, the ideas of Ms. Warren fall even more flat than usual. Just like Obama writing a book called “The Promised Land” in which he wants us to envision heaven being given to us by big government. These people are being driven so mad by their misguided idealism that they really can’t think clearly and envision the logical conclusion to their ideas of big government which is totalitarian government.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-liberals-redefining-freedom
Does Obama realize there is no affirmative action in heaven?
What if Covid-19 is code for the British are coming. Mmmm my Corona.
I think Unitas 19 is somehow involved
Unitas 19 you say….. hmm. I do live in a proverbial bubble – had not heard of this yet. Thank you. I do recall Venezuela & Brazil being in the news as this Covid 19 stuff began.
& Let’s blame the innovative, dynamic Women in office for the threat of Communism. If they’d do their job with fairness, proper professionalism, follow the law & code & ethis laws which have already been established we could handle this glorious Freedom – but no.
They are the ones giving us the proverbial shaft – women in business, you SUCK AT WHAT YOU DO. YOU RUINED IT FOR EVERYONE !
IT’S ALL FUN & GAMES UNTL SOMEONE GETS A [ ] IN THE EYE !
https://www.southcom.mil/Media/Special-Coverage/UNITAS-2019/
In case anyone is interested.
That was a post worthy of defenestration .
Yeah, I just closed my eyes and swung. I didn’t mean to start a 30 year war.
And you wonder why the restaurant people are pissed. This guy knows exactly what he did, played dumb, got away with it.
Mayor jumped in on his behalf contacted Amuso directly. Reminded Amuso about the pass her son got.
Kathy Amuso should, in no way, be allowed on that board anymore.
PITTSFIELD — The owner of a local brewery got a pass from the city Monday on an apparent violation of COVID-19 regulations.
After a brief show cause hearing Monday, the city Licensing Board unanimously agreed to take no action against Wandering Star Craft Brewery for inviting customers who buy their beer to enjoy it in a space outside the brewery Nov. 14 and Nov. 15.
A complaint was filed with the Pittsfield Police Department after the brewery posted a promotion on social media about the outdoor consumption of Wandering Star brews that weekend.
Under the current state regulations during the coronavirus pandemic, prepared food from a commercial kitchen must be served with alcoholic beverages. Outdoor beer sales must come from a tap, not bottles. The food must come from a legitimate menu; just peanuts, pretzels or cheese and crackers won’t suffice.
Wandering Star’s liquor license doesn’t allow for indoor, on-site consumption. With a separate license, the brewery could serve beer from a tap. But, owner Christopher Post thought his promotion wasn’t a problem, since the property behind the brewery belongs to another business from which he leases the buildings.
“I’ve always been told the place is off premise,” Post told the board.
Board member Kathy Amuso reminded Post that he should have been aware of the state restrictions on selling/serving alcohol during the pandemic.
“Going forward, I want you to know what you can and cannot do on premise and behind your premise,” she said.
Well that sets precedence for the next guy who screws up. Kathy just gave a pass to every other establishment that plays stupid when called on the carpet. Did Yuky get this warning as well?
Hey Covid cuties, I just flew in from Colorado and boy are my arms tired! That’s a little elitist humor from the corner office.
Hope you had a great T-Day, I know I did. Raffie made the trip with me and he’s one cute little tamale.
Sorry not sorry about closing all the restaurants, what’s loosing hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue for dozens of businesses when you can punish the meany Mazzeo’s and cover for your special friend? Small price to pay. But worry not, we are going to change the parking on North Street again, it will just be one lane, but not one way, you’ll have to figure it out on your own. The the other lane will be used for pedestrians. The bikers have decided the sidewalks are safer so now the pedestrians will walk in the street. More street walkers in Pittsfield, it’s what we need.
You Kroll fans are gonna be disappointed. He’s not going to run for office and he’s going to keep his mouth shut. Allison has finally had enough and the divorce papers are quite damming.
Well that’s my story. Me and the little lady are going to a late dinner in Lenox.
Mr. Fritz, Karl Marx was not a good man. But be fair, the Founding Fathers of the United States of America mostly owned SLAVES and stole land from the Native American Indigenous Peoples. Lastly, Karl Marx is NOT my hero. Nor am I a Marxist! Best wishes, Jonathan Melle Post Script: History is full of hypocritical men.
Let’s not forget slavery was NOT an American invention
Well there ya go then. Why are we even talking about it? If ya dint invent it ya gets a pass.
There is NO PASS – Abolished
Melle,
Your history of posts on this site clearly shows that you are a supporter of Marxism and
Antifa.
Now you’re not?
What brought about the change? Viewer blowback? Divine intervention?
My voice of reason?!
At least he’s accountable for what he posts. You don’t have the jewels to use you name.
TM,
Some can assign their names without fear of retaliation and some cannot. The days of discussion and having different opinions without fear of being canceled out of employment and many other things are over. No more getting together to have a dinner and beers after a discussion that led to disagreement.
Confidentiality is not a real thing.
no guts. no glory
TM,
There is no glory in being canceled out. Everything that people say or disagree on is so polarized in today’s world, it isn’t worth it. So bad that even family separation, friends etc.. have come about.
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/lawsuits-against-state-of-michigan-filed-to-defend-life-religious-liberty-and-traditional-family-values/
When one speaks aloud – it leads to reason. Expressing thoughts that are different than yesterday just means we are alive. If we’re all thinking alike, someones not thinking. & The Truth is alive, therefore it changes. – Loved seeing those Restaurateurs out in the rain – we are sitting on our proverbial beds complaining – pretty sure we are letting em bamboozle us [send]
Sorry PLANET I’m a little selfish. Trying to comment until my heart’s content – these couple of topics really burn my toast, feeling some kind of way. I’m just a person. Feeling the affect
Obama puts down Americans for clinging to cheap gas and big vehicles. It’s beginning. Between Liz Warren’s comments yesterday about let’s reimagine freedom to be dependence on big government, this is going to get really bad quickly in this country. They need to wean us off of freedom which includes private vehicles.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/obama-criticizes-americans-for-liking-cheap-gas-and-big-cars-more-than-the-environment
So what did you think about Trumps lawyer saying that Trumps cyber security guy should be shot at dawn, drawn and quartered? Are you pretty much OK with that? Cuz you do seem kind of selective about the things that bother ya.
Pittsfield’s COVID overall positivity test rate has upped to 4.5% as of November 28th, according to data sent home to PPS families. On October 15, the rate was 0.1%.
Yet 173 of 421 active cases are attributed to long term care. At Hillcrest Commons, 137 out of 299 residents tested positive. That’s a positivity rate of 45%.
You absolutely cannot lump outbreaks at a nursing home and the jail with the positivity rates of the general public.
On November 22 and 23, Pittsfield did pop-up testing for 760 students, parents and staff of the PPS community. They yielded 4 positive tests, a rate of 0.5%.
Let’s be rationale here, which numbers more accurately reflect the threat to the general
public?
The schools should be open. They did not contribute to an outbreak at a nursing home.
Keeping the schools closed sends one (false) message – you will never be safe, anywhere. All of these precautions are for shit because nothing you do helps. As soon as people leave their homes, we’re doomed. (All false narrative, but propagated at every turn).
Open the schools. Stop the fear mongering.
And fire the Mayor. She has no idea what she is doing. There will be no climbing back from this black hole. Pittsfield is doomed under her administration.
Agree,the Sisters should be ousted. Three useless individuals.
The residents of Hillcrest probably got it from employees. Think they have kids in school? Everything connects to something else.
There are too many patients in Hillcrest Commons. So easy for the virus to spread to many patients. Berkshire Health Systems should have sent patients to other smaller local nursing homes so there were not so many in one place. Patients should have had their own room and not had to share with another patient. Sharing a bathroom with a room mate will quickly spread the virus.
OR, if you have an infected nursing assistant going around passing our medications or helping people get dressed then one infected person could infect alot more and it would not matter how many patients were in each room?
Unfortunately there aren’t enough beds to do one patient to a room.Most likely patients are getting infected by staff.
Montage of witnesses to the fraud at the TCF Center in Detroit:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/must-see-michigan-montage-tcf-center-elections-observers-testify-massive-democrat-vote-fraud-video/
7-plus hours of testimony at a hearing AZ yesterday, including our own Dr. Shiva.
Some guy shows up at Pima Co., AZ, counting center, poll observer for Dims from Los Angeles:
“We’re here to turn Arizona/this precinct blue: This is one of our problem ones. I came from another problem precinct in Maricopa Co. I have lawyers on call if you don’t let people vote. Count every vote.”
Ret. Army Col. Phil Waldron, information war guy:
Krebs—“most secure election in history, no internet, no votes leave country.” None of this true.
“Why did Krebs say these things?”
“He’s either incompetent or not committed to learning the truth.”
This is MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD.
Why would the Republican poll watchers/challengers be harassed, intimidated, blocked, insulted, pushed, not allowed in–in at least six states in key counting locations–when the Democrats were not?
The same damn pattern of fraud everywhere–AM ballot drops, all marked for Biden, run the same ballot through the machine several times, etc., etc., etc.
Lamestreamers continue to lie that these is no evidence.
I understand that the “dump” on Hubbard Ave. is closed for “residential” use only. Did I miss the announcement of this?
Does the mayor have any suggestions where we should dump our leaves?
Call Mayor § City Hall At 499-9321
She and Barry live out towards Hancock
The boy had no CHOICE but to go to school.
“These are the times we live in,” said Du Bois Middle Principal Ben Doren.
Someone made a comment about my hairstyle – go fund me
Berk-gofundme-shire County
I not happy with my water bill today. I don’t know if I can sustain-living here with that bill? It’s like another effing mortgage,I’m serious.
Eff Off K Wood and City Clownsilly. Annmmnnd your water rates.
Project Veritas is doing a expose on Zucker/CNN starting tonight at 7 PM. Supposed to be a week long series of drops.
“O’Keefe Dials in to CNN Conference Call with Senior Leadership, Tells Jeff Zucker He Will Release Tapes of Editorial Calls Tonight – Zucker Panics and Hangs Up!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/james-okeefe-dials-cnn-conference-call-senior-leadership-tells-jeff-zucker-will-release-tapes-editorial-calls-tonight-zucker-panics-hangs-video/
“James O’Keefe on Tuesday morning dialed in to CNN’s conference call with senior leadership and told president Jeff Zucker that he has been recording insider calls for two months.
O’Keefe livestreamed the call to periscope.
“Do you still feel you’re the most trusted name in news?” O’Keefe asked Zucker.
A very nervous Zucker skirted around the question and said, “thank you for uh — thank you for your comments. So, everybody, I think in light of that, we’ll set up a new system, and we’ll be back with you, we’ll do the rest of the call a little bit later, okay?” Zucker said as he hung up the call.”
https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mnxeaBlrlNxX?t=31
“There was not one single ballot marked for Donald Trump that I saw in 27 hours there. Not a single ballot.”
–Melissa Carone, contracted by PDS to do IT work for Dominion at TCF Center
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/dominion-trained-contractor-blows-michigan-hearing-re-scanning-counting-ballots-8-10-times-video/
I reported earlier what she said about putting packets of 50 ballots through the machine 8 to 10 times.
To wit: Ballot jams. Error. Must discard the vote count for the whole batch. Then rescan. But they just counted the ballots again, adding to the previous count, scanning them through, without discarding the count. So you get 450 to 500 votes for every 50-ballot packet.
Top guy from Dominion there, part owner.
She called the FBI. Spoke with a woman for 40 minutes. Disconnected. Called back and left a message. No call back from FBI.
I really hope this chick has hired body guards.
Correction on AZ hearing: It was 10+ hours of witness-of-fraud testimony.
ERM: SHOW US something….anything…!
That’s all I’ve been doing. Blind can’t see anything in any event.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/breaking-exclusive-got-col-waldron-confirms-us-copy-election-night-data-traffic-packets-sent-overseas-frankfurt-video/
Yesterday, General Flynn highlighted one point during Colonel Waldron’s testimony.
Col Waldron claimed that not only did the military’s ‘white hat hackers’ see the data flowing overseas to Germany on election night, they also have a copy of the traffic and and packets of data that were sent:
https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/1333512147188338688
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT SOCIAL JUSTICE IS – NOT BEING FRAMED AND AWAITING TRIAL FOR 3.5 YEARS.
TTTWWWIIICCCEEEEEEEEEEEEE
BLACK AS IT GETS.
This is what retaliation looks like for reporting sex crime to the DA. SIGs do, because they can. This equality shit is a lie – I filed a motion for a new trial. People resign but they change the actors ! ACTORS. DAN. THEY CHANGE THE NAMES IN THE PRESS RELEASES – Is disclosure required, why do they bother printing things with false names ? Why not just skip the story- are disclosures required ? Like resignations ? Investigations ? Ethics violations ?
Corruption for $500 please Alex.
What is Pittsfield really hiding ?
DAILY DOUBLE
THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW !
Expound. Just a little more? Please.
Any former DA employees work at DOJ ? Like promoted on or about 2013.
Dan, take a look at It’s Pittsfield Tonight. Mr. Mayor Bare Bare just posted a “zinger” against you stating that you only report one side of the story?! Wish I had a dollar for every time you have reported on your blog that you reached out to Mrs. Mayor and she never responded to you. Guess she also lies to her husband. Also watched the ZOOM meeting with the restaurant owners. Nothing but a bunch of hot air coming from this Administration as usual. Watched it twice and can’t see where anything was accomplished.
M&B
Thanks, but I generally follow a rule the late, great Peter Arlos taught me: “Don’t chase criticism.” Barry is entitled to his opinions, whatever they are.
Trump was offered cash for pardons….Amazing…what does this Fox/Trump board think.
We think you have TDS and that Trump owns your mind.
Dr. Tyer’s zoom meeting;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtERY3PlLls&t=1517s
Thanks for the link. That Craig guy and Melissa Mazzeo presented their case very, very well.
Worth the watch. Melissa tells it like it is. I miss her on the council.
Who the f is the POTUS I’m calling him. He hehh