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BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY SEPT. 8, 2021) — The Gr8 Shacktown Cell Tower Battle comes to a head Thursday night (Sept. 9).
We think.
Representatives from the city of Pittsfield will virtually “meet” (presumably via Zoom) from 3 to 5 p.m. to settle a dispute over the company’s tower at 877 South St.
This being Pittsfield, of course, concerned citizens (and there are many, especially from Plumb, Alma, Fairhaven, and Ora streets, plus Elmer, Atmer, and Oliver avenues) aren’t welcome. The Suits know better. Always. They’re smarter than you. You’re not sure?
Just ask them.
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Attorney Brad Gordon and interim Health Board head Andy Camby will represent the city. For Verizon, Ellen Cummings, state and government affairs director; Jay Latorre, network engineer; Josh Swift, company attorney, and Dr. Eric Swanson, health consultant. At issue, according to Mike Muadin, president, Alliance for Microwave Radiation Accountability Inc. (AMRA), “the outbreak of Microwave Radiation Syndrome among 14 people living near the Verizon Wireless Cell Tower located at 877 South Street.”
The Pittsfield Board of Health comes to the meeting badly outgunned and in chaos. Of the current six positions, two are vacant, with Cambi still trying to find the door. They’re going up against a global corporation that, at least as far as it appears, has crossed the “i”s and dotted the “t”s or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
Representing Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski of Shacktown? The Invisible Man. Technically, it will be Gordon and Cambi. THE PLANET has known Gordon since the 1980s, and he’s an honest, decent, level-headed man. We’re glad he’ll be in the foxhole. Cambi? We haven’t a clue.
Our chief concern lies in the long track history that Pittsfield’s political poison has with lying, obfuscation, lack of transparency, and its preference for heavy black curtains blocking the sunlight of the secret back rooms. To be frank, it appears that Gordon may be on a fool’s errand, deliberately kept in the dark for some strange reason by those in the city government’s upper echelons. Gordon’s a solid guy. He doesn’t deserve such treatment.
Current case in point of city officials’ treachery: The Best Friends of Springside Park. The Bests are fighting an uphill war of attrition with bought-and-sold city officials (McGee, McGrath, Ruffer, Tyer, Parks and ConComm commissioners) to keep the park out of the hands of a private outside developer. That New Hampshire-based developer, at the behest of compromised city “leaders” no less, wants to lay waste the center of the park with bright lights, concrete, blaring noise, strip clearing, and dangerous bike pump tracks.
In doing so, those officials have ignored the Kapanskis and caved to the narrow interest of a tony, tiny minority. There’s a lot of money involved, but, of course, advocates for the insanity claim it’s for “the children,” especially underprivileged kids — a reckless “sport” whose machines costs thousands of dollars. As we all know, poor parents have thousands of extra dollars to spring for mountain bikes and associated equipment.
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Andy Cambi, interim director, Pittsfield Board of Health (iBerkshires photo)
Compounding the cell tower David-Goliath mismatch is an internal feud within the David ranks. Courtney Gilardi, who heads neighborhood opposition to the tower over health concerns, threw a nutty on AMRA’s Muadin, who leaked e-mails between her and Gordon. Gilardi had two bones to break: (1) The missives, she fears, tipped Gordon’s hand with respect to his strategy going into tonight’s meeting, and (2) The e-mails might have kill any chance Gilardi has on receiving cooperation and transparency from the city.
Unbelievably (not), it looks like another concerned citizen, acting completely within her rights, fears retribution from officials ostensibly supposed to be representing her on an issue with serious health implications: headaches, insomnia, cardiovascular stress, birth defects, and cancer.
Rod Serling (VOICE OVER): “That’s the signpost up ahead. Your next stop, The Tyer Zone” (aka the city of Pittsfield).
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Muadin has a winning case for leaking the e-mails. At the same time, THE PLANET finds Gilardi’s concerns legit. What mom wants to take time out to fight city hall? Not a one. THE PLANET is sure Gilardi has a thousand other tasks on which she’d rather spend her time. Muadin, in a show of good faith, apologized to Gilardi and made that apology public.
THE PLANET, in an exclusive, presents it here:
MUADIN: On Sunday, September 5, 2021, I released a series of e-mails detailing the response of the City of Pittsfield, Massachusetts to the outbreak of Microwave Radiation Syndrome among 14 people living near the Verizon Wireless Cell Tower located at 877 South Street.
These e-mails were obtained by me, personally, through a series of Public Records Requests to the City of Pittsfield. This effort, made in the interest of governmental transparency and to provide timely information to Pittsfield Cell Tower Concerned Citizens after simple requests for answers were ignored, repeatedly and on multiple occasions, by public officials of the City of Pittsfield, was mine and mine alone.
The idea for the use of Public Records Requsts and the release of information as an activist’s tactic is mine and mine alone.
The decision to release e-mails at this critical time prior to the meeting between Verizon Wireless and the City of Pittsfield was made by me, alone, without prior consultation with Courtney Gilardi and Pittsfield Cell Tower Concerned Citzens, and without her knowledge or that of her citizens’ group. Full responsibility for anything that takes place as a result of my decision to release those e-mails and to issue a public statement at this delicate time, is mine. I accept it publicly, without hesitation.
I stand by every word of my statement.
The decision to release Courtney Gilardi’s Friday, September 3, 2021 e-mail to Pittsfield Board of Health Member Brad Gordon was mine and mine alone, as was the decision to release Brad Gordon’s Friday, September 3, 2021 e-mail response to Courtney Gilardi. This action was also taken without prior consultation with Ms. Gilardi and without her knowledge or express permission.
Although I considered these communications to be a matter of public record, ones that I, myself, or anyone else could obtain in a public records request, Ms. Gilardi has rightfully taken umbrage at my decision, given the immediacy of release, the publication of Attorney Gordon’s strategic intent, but most particularly since it could be perceived as having been undertaken in coordination with her. She is justifiably concerned that my actions could jeopardize her own relationship with officials in her home city of Pittsfield, that it might destroy her ability to work with the Pittsfield Health Director and what remains of the Pittsfield Board of Health.
I wish to make it unequivically clear to the media, to the public, and to the municipal government of the City of Pittsfield, particularly the Pittsfield Health Director and the Pittsfield Board of Health, that the responsibility for the release of those e-mails, along with every other major action undertaken by AMRA in these past 5 months, has been mine and mine alone. It has been my enterprise and was not the work of Courtney Gilardi. Any failures, any blame, belong to me.I conclude with a public apology to Courtney Gilardi, to the members of Pittsfield Cell Tower Concerned Citizens, to the residents of the Shacktown neighborhood, and to Attorney Brad Gordon of the Pittsfield Board of Health for my untimely release of the Friday, September 3, 2021 e-mails.
I sincerely regret any difficulty this action may have caused you. It will never happen again.
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When THE PLANET got wind of this mea culpa, we contacted Muadin. We told him we didn’t see the need to apologize to anyone. He shared PUBLIC documents obtained through FOI requests and had every right to do so.
Muadin replied at length, which, we share here:
MAUDIN: Thank you for your thoughtful words of encouragement and understanding,” Muadin write. “That is why I always reach out to you, a man who genuinely has the back of the Kapanskis of the world.
My apology is limited to my decision to release the Friday, September 3, 2021 e-mails between Courtney Gilardi and Brad Gordon. I did so without consulting Ms. Gilardi or affording Brad Gordon the limited discretion provided by the 10 business day return period of a Public Records Request.
I also do not want Ms. Gilardi unable to correspond with city officials because they think their e-mails might be published without somebody filing a records request.
With that said, I do not believe that Brad Gordon’s e-mail revealed any true strategic information, only his intention to rely on his experience as a mediator, which is where I take issue with his approach.
I do not believe Brad Gordon’s September 3, 2021 e-mail or Courtney Gilardi’s September 3rd response were truly private because: 1. Brad Gordon is a public official and everything he says or does in the course of doing his job is a matter of public interest and should be part of the public and historic record. 2. I did not release e-mails which were part of a private, one-on-one correspondence between Brad Gordon and Courtney Gilardi, but they also went out to Gina Armstrong [then Board of Health director] and were part of an e-mail group that also copied-in Kimberly Loring, Stephen Smith, leaders, activists, and experts in the movement including Cecelia Doucette, Dr. Paul Heroux, Dr. Kent Chamberlin, Sheena Symington, Magda Havas, Dr. David O. Carpenter, Dr. Sharon Goldberg, Maryland for Safe Technology, politicians like State Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, Ward 4 City Councillor Christopher Connell, Ward 5 City Councillor Patrick Kavey, and new Acting Public Health Director Andy Cambi.
My apology was only for releasing Ms. Gilardi’s e-mail without her knowledge and prior permission and for releasing Brad’s without waiting for a Public Records Request, particularly if my actions cause Attorney Gordon the same degree of discomfort and anxiety that they caused Ms. Gilardi.
I agree that the September 3rd e-mails are public record and public documents. In one sense, I had the absolute right to release them. I still feel as though I have done the people of Pittsfield and those of Ms. Gilardi’s own neighborhood a great service. They need zealous, determined representation on the day of the meeting with Verizon, not a mediator determined to see both sides so we can all look for a compromise. How do you find common ground when on one side there are people who are sick and dying and on the other side is a corporation with a $272.7 Billon market cap which is poisoning them with high-powered microwave transmitters erected too close to human habitation. There is no middle ground. There is only: “We need you to move the tower because it is making people sick.”. It is a matter of human health. They are the Pittsfield Board of Health. It should be treated as a health matter.
Given all that, the reality is that Verizon will not want to move the tower for health reasons. Attorney Gordon was correct about that when he identified it as a “third rail” for Verizon. It is. It is not, however, one they can ignore. This story has grown too big. They have to bring their “A-Team” to this meeting, the same one they would bring into Court, in order to confront the stories head on and answer them, once, and only once, and for all. (Brad Gordon is harboring hopes of a series of meetings. That is coloring his perception and tempering his approach. You don’t bring in a team like this to initiate a series of meetings. You bring in a team like this for a one and done meeting to shut down any talk of harms.)
The release of all of the other e-mails is my absolute right. I chose to do so at the time and in the manner that would be most beneficial to the suffering people I have given the past five months of my life to defend. Ms. Gilardi had no advance knowledge of my decision, nor does she have veto power over my actions and those of my organization, Alliance for Microwave Radiation Accountability.
This morning Ms. Gilardi issued a statement to the media in which she wrote she was “not sure Michael should have released all these emails right now at this vulnerable and critical juncture.”
Ms. Gilardi went on to state: “I’ve been asked to trust the process and I want to provide Attorney Gordon and Director Armstrong with all the information they need to be successful in advocating for this tower to be removed or relocated based on all the issues — the lack of notification, the lack of community transparency, the lack of notification again when the permit was about to expire, the illegal construction through a public street, the continued build out despite legal proceedings and yes, the health issues and what our neighborhood has had to endure since the tower started transmitting.”
She concluded: “I do not believe it is the right thing to put any pressure on the city right now — with Director Armstrong leaving the department and Attorney Gordon busy with housing issues — the only thing I want is for them to have accurate information, resources and support going into these talks.”
By my release of the e-mails obtained through Records Requests, I just focused media and public attention on “the lack of notification again when the permit was about to expire, the illegal construction through a public street”. It is one thing to want them to be discussed, to hope that if the information is provided someone might, if they choose to, use it as a negotiating tactic with Verizon. It is quite another matter to place it before the public eye in such a way that they cannot be ignored by the media, the City of Pittsfield, or Verizon and it’s representatives.
Perhaps the City of Pittsfield and its negotiators, along with Verizon and its negotiators, all need a little bit of public pressure put on them right now, through the introduction of these e-mails and the issues that they introduce, issues which are now part of the record and can no longer be ignored, issues which could be latched on to, by both the City of Pittsfield and Verizon, if they are looking for some pretext that allows them to agree to move the cell tower without ever acknowledging harms to human health.
For all these reasons I stand by the words in my statement and the release of the e-mails which I obtained through Public Records Requests.
Lastly, a final word to Verizon and the City of Pittsfield about Courtney Gilardi.
It was my distinct honor and privilege to work alongside Ms. Gilardi over the past 5 months. She is one of the most determined human beings that I have ever met and she absolutely will not stop until her children are safe and she is able to return to her home. Whatever trouble they think she’s been over the past 18 months, they have no idea how big a deal this tower could become if they aren’t smart enough to find a way to move it now. If they don’t agree to move the tower on Thursday, I have no doubt that Courtney Gilardi will find a way to keep the fight going and before the public eye. I wouldn’t be surprised if the tower grew to be a national or international symbol of citizen resistance to the telecom industry. This is their last chance to settle this thing and quiet it down before it goes viral and becomes a rallying point of historic importance. They’d better move the tower for the sake of a good reputation and continuing their own healthy profits. To do anything else would prove to be a mistake with colossal implications for their corporate future and that of their industry.
Please feel free to print this in it’s entirety, DAN. I believe it adds clarity to the historic record because journalists write the first draft of history. I started out writing it as a reply to you, but at it’s conclusion believe that it warrants release as a Clarification to my Public Apology. I am going to edit and release a more public version as a statement to other media.
Thanks for being a great journalist, DAN, and a consistent tribune, a clarion voice standing up for the rights of Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski.
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Tower at 877 South St. during construction. 115-feet, 12 antennae. (Berkshire Eagle photo)
Muadin’s correct. With the clock running, whatever pressure the e-mail release may bring to bear tonight, is entirely justifiable. Gilardi, an angered “mama lion,” wants to believe she’ll get a fair shake from the city. In that sense, she’s an idealist, and THE PLANET admires that. However, idealists soon find themselves trampled to death when they try to play the game by “the rules.” The Best Friends have made that mistake, resulting in loss after loss. Unless they wake up and use everything they have stored in the ammo shack, they’re toast. Muadin’s calculated strategy on the cell tower issue embodies the same realization.
The health concerns are real. The facts: Cell phone towers emit large amounts of radio frequency radiation (RF) — “microwaves,” the kind you use everyday to cook your food. Of course, unlike ovens, cell towers emit massive amounts of radiation, which is the combination of electronic and magnetic waves moving together at the speed of light — almost faster than Peter White could coin the word “houseless.” That’s why they are built tall and out of reach.
Measurements on the ground allegedly have shown little to no increased radiation from typical ground readings at 877 South St., according to both the city and Verizon.
How reliable are those readings?
One final question. At tonight’s meetings, will detailed minutes be kept? It is vital that an accurate record of the discussion is made and publicly released. The city should voluntarily do this. If not, THE PLANET predicts another FOI request will soon be in order.
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Here are the emails:
MUADIN TO THE PLANET: For Record – I was part of e-mail circle – It really wasn’t private. Once something is no longer between two people, it is not private unless there is a previous agreement to that. If Ms. Gilardi had wanted these to remain private, they should have been between her and Brad Gordon ALONE.
Michael Muadin
President – AMRA
The Alliance for Microwave Radiation Accountability, Inc.
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This is all sophistry.
Firstly, the City has no say in the health implications of a cellphone tower. They are regulated as the Federal and State level.
The most that local cities and towns can do it site the towers based on zoning but not related any quasi concern for “radiation limits”
Secondly as far as the science supporting the radiation limits and potential illnesses, hogwash. The number of studies showing there isn’t any health risks far outweigh the ones that do (and both have their built in biases). We also have decades of experience with these radiation levels and types. If these devices were as bad as these crackpots claim, there’d be millions of more cases of cancer due to the perceived ionizing radiation.
Lastly, these people claim that when it was turned on, they started getting sick. What if I told you the cell tower was broadcasting at full signal strength months before these people started complaining of illnesses.
As I listened to the people stammer and complain before, how their health changed “immediately” and how it was a “dramatic change to my well-being the day it was turned on” I laughed knowing these people were full of it.
They started complaining months too late for them to be credible.
They are built tall and “out of reach” not because of the radiation but to broadcast the signal the furthest. In areas where there are lots of mountains and trees, they need to be mounted higher. It’s the same reason people put radio antennae high up, or TV antennae high up. To broadcast and receive the signal with as little interference as possible.
Gilardi is a dyed in the wool crackpot.
If I had the choice to live near to or far away from cell towers or high tension lines I would far away. How about you?
Relocate it to the Lovely Linda’s millionaires-only gated community, along with Hill 78, and Social Services Alley, etcetera….
Your life is paid for by the taxpayer, John. You’re never going to get back at Nuciforo. Let it go. Nothing you type is going to change anything in Pittsfield. And, nothing anyone types here is going to change a damn thing.
I don’t want to “get back at N_c_f_ro!” What I want is to NOT go down to his level, as well as tell as many people out there the truth about him in Pittsfield politics and in Boston. The truth about him is on him – not me!
– Jonathan A. Melle
P.S. While I was indicted on 2 felonies, I was never convicted of a felony in my life. My 2 misdemeanors were annulled by the State of New Hampshire over 2 years ago in the Summer of 2019. I have no criminal record.
What were the original charges?
They’re not causing anything with me. I’d tent out under one. Bottom line city dropped the ball. It’s to late anyway.
I don’t think the city dropped anything… I think they wanted it for cell performance and tax revenue. Who owns the land? I know some people in the office right by it aren’t to happy.
How do you not have that choice? No one puts a gun to your head to tell you where to live.
Nobody told you to steal. But you did
Where did I say I didn’t have that choice? I don’t live near one and wouldn’t want to. You just like to be a contrary jerk.
See? You do have the choice.
You had a choice. But you chose to steal from clients
Two totally different issues. I wouldn’t care one bit about a cell tower. I would not want to live near any high tension wires, especially the larger kind that run through a number of neighborhoods on the edges of Pittsfield.
Good luck selling your shacktown home
I question your credibility based on your last sentence slamming Ms. Gilardi.
Labeling anyone who questions the company stance as “crackpots” shows your complete bias and lack of intelligence.
Ad hominem is a turn off
Thanks, LEGAL, for the pushback.
With RF radiation how close the source is to a person is more important than the power level of the radiation. Radiation dissipates with distance. So the closer you are to the tower the more radiation you will be exposed to. 24 hours a day its pumping out. 5G is High Frequency so it needs to be constantly repeated after a set distance. This tower is also sending out older generation frequencies too. Its is not preferable to live near these radiation emitters. Hard to understand when Bosquets has a cell tower up on top why this was needed near a neighborhood. Couldn’t it have went in the woods behind Guidos? Finally I’m not sure of this but I think the posting was done in a chicken shit way posting 877 South St as the location.If so are disloyal Lefty Local government did a real disservice to those neighborhoods. Everyone within 500 feet should have received a letter from the City telling them about this project. Radiation emitters are a big deal and should be treated as such. These people where there before the tower. There will be plenty of more people complaining about 5g radiation emitters. Its going on now.
Goodness gracious. There is no evidence whatsoever that cell towers cause cancer.
This is the same nonsense that the anti-vaxxer morons trot out. They think their idiotic beliefs somehow override science.
Goodness gracious but there is evidence you are a convicted felon https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/judge-north-adams-attorney-who-stole-15k-had-anger-sense-of-entitlement/article_c11f6860-0387-5e04-8279-012054f9bcc3.html
Some kid got racist in a meeting about The Foundry and Truc’s. Does Amy have any kids? Oh yes she does. I wonder if racism runs in the family? After all this time they don’t know how to run a zoom meeting? Fire the Town admin.
From the Eagle:
WEST STOCKBRIDGE — A Select Board meeting took an ugly turn Tuesday when at least one person interrupted it with a racial slur and threats directed at the owner of a Vietnamese restaurant who last week emerged from a controversy over noise from a neighboring business.
“Now we have a target on our back. People know where we live, people know where our business is and I am shook to my core.” Truc Nguyen, responding to an anti-Asian slur by a Zoom bomber
Terrible. I wonder if Amy Brentano or anyone else at The Foundry will publicly condemn this type of hateful action.
Racist “woke jokes”, who would have guessed?
Where are all the liberals crying for a “hate crime”?
Looking for a crocodile as they are nearly extinct from over use on other issues they claim to care about.
Good question, TRAP.
https://fappeningbook.com/amy-brentano-nude/
There’s always this
That’s hysterical, the fun bags are out. What’s all that white goo on her?
Amy Brentano is an American actress.
Nude Roles in Movies: Blood Sisters (1987), Breeders (1986), Prime Evil (1988)
FUGLY BEAST!!!!
Unless it’s another one of those fake racist incidents like the RACIALLY OFFENSIVE RACIST “f**k the N*gg*r” HS Zoom BOMB. An alleged racist crime, perpetrated by 2 HS Zoom bomber students of COLOUR. Or any of the other FAKE REPORTS OF RACIST, VIOLENT CRIME, including fake crimes of being kidnapped by white males, dragged deep into the wood, attacked, knocked out, and left for dead. Violent racist falsely reported crimes that didn’t happen. But apparently not criminal for the reporter of these fake violent racist crimes, because these FAKE HATE CRIMES were fabricated by a dangerous racist female negress. Also those FAKE RACIST HATE LETTERS that seem to show up when its convenient.
As for people knowing the location of the Asian business, isn’t that what business’ would want, for people/customers, to know where their business/Vietnamese restaurant is located. Maybe Truc Nguyen should look at it as advertisement she didn’t have to pay for.
Sounds like it was you you Zoom bombed the meeting.
No only a convicted felon like you would think that
I agree Dan that Brad Gordon is a stand-up guy.
I also admire Ms. Gilardi, alias Mary Jane Karpanski, for her fight against Goliath. She sounds like a very intelligent woman.
Several years ago, when Verizon approached the CC for their formal approval on 5G towers, a gentleman with a foreign accent spoke during the 3 min. citizen comment period and mentioned several studies showing the negative impacts of 5G on health. No one paid any attention.
If Verizon stuck one in my backyard, I’d be upset too. Home values go down the toilet.
Many studies suggest the increased radiation has a negative impact on health. And while it was pointed out by another blogger that 5G tech may already be in our homes – phones & wifi can be turned off for a night. Cell phone towers emit radiation every minute of the day.
I wish Ms. Gilardi & neighbors the best in their fight against big tech!
Look.bottom line is city failed ward four.
Yah, I think the city failed ALL the wards, and most, but not all, of the taxpayers. By the way, why does this particular mayor hate forensic audits so much? You would think Barry would be pushing her to do one as it would show foresight and responsibility. I don’t get it. Marchetti said he is in favor. Most of the councilors SAID they were in favor and yet silence from the corner office. But why?
Lots of trouble now with zoom. Politicians and now whackos can agendaize on zoom from locations other than a building. Zoom should be shut down completely. Whether on radio or t v screen like pctv, it gives the advantage also to political favoritism.
City Councilors for instance are only interviewed once for political office, yet sitting Council Members and the Mayor are on zoom regularly. Let them trek down to the studios to be on the air ten times a year instead of zoom. It would certainly level the playing field.
THE PLANET agrees. No more Zoom!
Could we have a city council seance instead? Calling Arlos.
Bottom line with this issue is basically the powers to be at Tyerville City Hall could care less what the input is from hard working taxpayers. There is a complete lack of communication from this Administration. Has been this way for 5 years and counting. In reading this blog today the one thing that stood out is there is no input by Linda Tyer. Maybe I am missing something, but I have seen very little to no input or comments from our so called Mayor. Did not even see her name as being copied on emails. She has not communicated or been involved with this cell tower issue, the bike lane major screw-up, the Springfield Park debacle, the Carr Hardware mess, the Methusalah Covid issue, the homeless issue, and very little about the increasing crime. Seems rather strange that the Mayor of a City does not want to be involved with the issues in the City that she was elected to represent. Evidently she must feel that a one time short stroll up and down North Street warrants her highly paid position. Access to her at her corner office is basically non-existent, you have to clear through her two bouncers to see her. Never in my life have I seen a Mayor need so much security, Why? What is she afraid of? I give high praise to the residents near the cell tower for their constant fight. A fight they would not be involved in if the City was not always involved with behind door favors. Also, why a ZOOM meeting? Just another way to block out taxpayers!
On another note. Has anyone here has any such luck with Tyer’s Dynamic and Vibrant PITTSMART app? Does anyone know how long it takes the City to respond? Is it weeks, months, years or not at all? Have not had any success with my request so far. Or is this just another scapegoat for not responding to the taxpayers of Pittsfield?
Sign your name Milltown and she will get back to you in a heartbeat.
Took city over a year to even acknowledge receipt of one of my complaints. Took about another year to allegedly fix it. I complained this year about a street with so many potholes it looked like it had been bombed. They only fixed the potholes in front of one house. And the fix didn’t last.
Roads here make a great game of pitch and putt.
Welcome to Tyerville, how of “vibrancy and dynamism.”
Yes
But you can’t deny that tyerville’s vibrant and dynamic “work in pogrom” Nothing GOOD on North is on FIRE, AGAIN! Did the PPD Keystone Kops solve the TWO ARSON incidents at the church on North yet? Or are the PPD kops too busy accosting elementary school children as they enter the Level 5 portals of disgrace, AKA, Pittsfield’s most miserably OVER PRICED/Budgeted asylums of alleged learning.
I’ve submitted a couple of things on the PittSmart app. They did respond fairly quickly.
How exactly does zoom block out taxpayers?? If anything, it expands capability for participation. Your statement makes zero sense.
Zoom blocks out taxpayers, and anyone else so chosen, at the simple button pressed by the moderator, set up by IT that way. Easy.
illegal? Dan.
Depends. It can be, but when you can set up your own rules, it might not be. Bureaucrats in this burg depend on legalisms to protect them from their moral reprehensions.
LOL. Again, please explain: a simple press of the button? Sounds like the Planet doesn’t understand Zoom. Just because you and other boomers aren’t tech savvy doesn’t mean people should refrain from expanding access, which is exactly what a virtual platform does.
Should have dumbed it down for you, I guess. I was speaking figuratively. I have Zoomed with the experts and found it wanting. It’s primarily a coward’s technology.
My in-laws barely understand how to make a call on a cellphone. They have lived in Pittsfield their whole lives. They can’t figure out how to zoom meeting anything. The used to go to the city council meeting in person. Also zoom is not hearing aid friendly.
Excellent rejoinder! Zoom is for bureaucrat cowards.
But Pete White goes to Zumba class!
With the “houseless?” He’s a simpleton, harmless, and even sweet. But as VP of the city council? God help us.
If you friend him, he’ll wish you happy birthday every time. Even if your real birthday is not 1/1.
Not hearing aid friendly? You can literally turn on subtitles and it transcripts live. What else ya’ll got?
Good one, TONE!
Womens choice minority surpression is being done in America in the states.White men rule.
Guiel wants to explore paycas you throw? Dana!!!!!!!! WHY?….
Tyler is female goof ball….I think
You aint seen nothing yet TSC
Wait till the unvetted Afghan terrorists Traitor Joseph Stolen imported get here TSC.
Then women will get Sharia law!!!
TSC, how are you with white, liberal women in a gorrilla mask, physically assaulting CA governor candidate Larry Elder on the campaign trail?
Isn’t that a “hate crime”? It seems so, especially wearing the gorilla mask.
Larry is the black man, who will be next CA governor after recall election removes corrupt D-Newsom
https://twitter.com/KateCagle/status/1435689908098592771
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/breaking-violent-white-liberals-assault-larry-elder-hurl-eggs-gop-candidate-beat-campaign-official-street-video/
The “haters” the esteemed editorial bored at the BB refers to are more than likely random trolls, not local racists. If anyone in town admin had a clue they would google “zoom bombing prevention” and follow the basic steps. It more than likely happened from people posting the link on open sites. Instead we have hacks riling up the community even more than it already appears to be. Fact: We do not know this racist is local. BTW a bigger concern is what these towns are doing to prevent ransomware as happened in Egremont. My guess is they are not cyberaware.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/opinion/editorials/our-opinion-hateful-attack-demands-community-wide-defense-in-west-stockbridge/article_db2a5d3c-10c6-11ec-8f2b-03633e293ea5.html
Meetings should be only open to discussion to the main participants and board members, all other participants should be muted on entry.
There should be a dedicated moderator.
Questions should be sent via the chat and then read by the moderator.
Per the emergency order for the open meeting law, the link must be posted and available to the public, so not posting the link is not an option.
I don’t think these are advanced “hackers” I do think they are local, there have been numerous zoom bombings. Many of them are local kids just bored and having some “fun” at others expense.
I would bet they are using vpn connections.
As for “hacking” other people’s accounts. they aren’t, they are just spoofing the names in zoom.
Thanks, Tik, gosh that would have been helpful info for an article wouldn’t it? Instead of feeding the terror of the victim we could talk to a local expert and get their take on things to put it in perspective. What a concept.
Boston boob Marty Walsh, now Biden’s Labor Secretary, what an embarrassment….
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/09/08/labor-secy-walsh-economy-going-to-be-up-and-down-for-a-little-bit/
He doesn’t have the brains to be the local dog catcher!
Fire Dr. FrankenFauci! What a fraud!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/psaki-bolts-podium-newsmaxs-emerald-robinson-asks-fauci-funding-construction-chimeric-coronaviruses-wuhan-video/
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/07/new-details-of-fauci-funding-chinese-gain-of-function-research-vindicate-rand-paul/
Fire somewhere on north street. Watch it be one of the city’s blighted buildings or failing businesses.
Future Ruffer real estate!
Watch as it magically becomes the property of some local maverick who builds “market rate” apartments and who gets tax incentives and just in time because the city has lots of money for….drumm roll please…APARTMENTS AND HOUSING!
Magic is in the air in Tyertown @ NON.
I don’t know about magic, but I would bet on the vibrant, dynamic and inclusive fragrance of napalm in the air of bookkeeper clerk Ilse tyertown ghetto @NON.
Right now, NON is in the lead for THE PLANET’s Coveted Orbit Award (COA).
That was Pete White passing gas.
1700 Covid deaths in USA yesterday. double any other country. I am with Howard Stern on this.
https://ca.movies.yahoo.com/howard-stern-tells-anti-vaxxers-073943935.html
Rich white liberal NYrs are only liberal and interested in freedom until they want something. Then if they can’t go out and get their NYtimes or enjoy a bagel with lox, all bets are off.
Cuomo killed more in nursing homes, he resigned to avoid prison, which he deserves.
If my grandma/pa he’d be worm food. But he’s a DEMOCRAT!
adele.quigleymcbride@duke.edu
If you were a victim of sex trafficking by a public defender.
First off, from the previous topic, that androgynous thing dressed in the stripes, desecrating the memory of those who perished in the ovens at Auschwitz, IS OFFENSIVE!
Secondly, what are the chances that on the very day Fraulein Ilse tyer and her office negress bouncers had planned to eradicate decades of filth and grime from the windows at White Terrace, someone set the place on fire, again! Unless that fire is in fact part of tyer’s secret planned “work in progress pogrom” for vibrant dynamic NOTHING GOOD ON NORTH.
Vibrant and Dynamic so much so this abandoned building caught on fire twice in 5 years. Milltown will buy the lot.
Was this the subject of the AM phone call?
Yep, was very Vibrant and Dynamic of this Administration to startled awake all the residents of Pittsfield at 5:35 a.m.. to report this breaking news. The building should have been torn down 5 years ago after the last fire. Hopefully the emergency vehicles didn’t break Morales, Ruffer and Tyer’s white plungers trying to fight the fire. Building has been a squatting haven for drug dealing and passed out addicts for years. Wonder if the City will finally state it needs to be taken down. City was worried about Carr Hardware’s window treatments but let this dilapidated unsafe building stand.
Who owns the building, culpo?
Yes, what was the point in calling the whole city at 5:30 am? Woke up my whole family. My wife was afraid it was a family member with some kind of emergency.
Please city keepers – ditch the early morning calls.
Tyer, Can’t Understand Normal Thinking.
Ack Row Nims?
Warning me not to drive on North St. Funny!
Was Barry still awake after his 3am visit to cumbies?
Too bad this once was a great place
M I G A…..Make-it great again. Brady tonight. Dallas better have a running game.
Brady and Champagne!
I only kneel to the Lord. Screw NFL!!!
and Trump. By the way, you can get up now
Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!!….. YOU voted for Traitor Joe Stolen.
Buffoon and ignoramus extrordinare, now demented too and comprimised by illegal deals with multiple foreign nations in treasonous ways.
That’s besides an imposter POTUS!!!
Even D-rats have 39% approval of the POS now
Nothing on North in “vibrant and dynamic” Tyerville.
Yes,that’s the only dynamic and vibrant thing that’s happens.
Justice Gants
https://youtu.be/56lhZUkP6KM
Naturally they would make the meeting closed to the public. Every time there’s an open one the Tinfoil hat lady props up her daughter and makes her read a script about how she is in fear of that big bad tower and whips out a RF meter from amazon that looks like a 80’s handheld football game.
You’re screwing up your kids lady.
Young Levitan has a word on the subject of EM radiation. His final year at the academy of renaissance classical baroque renaissance, while we were planning the overthrow of post modern society – yes there would be blood – to be swiftly replaced by better fashion statements and grand works of historical art (all anatomically explicit, correct, and in proper contrast with nice composition), we were at odds with a actors troupe who took the empty floor on high just above Messier Ravip and Ghislaine’s ballet troupe who pranced about the building in Grecian togas and bubbled with laughter.
The Board had enough. Ravip, the close acquaintance of Warhol a commercial artist who died in an performance piece in a hospital bed, was not attending meetings and was loosing control of it. They were conspiring a coup, which if successful, would dash our idealistic dreams of revolution and reinstatement of the Academy and the abolition of post modernism. (Bad art would become both highly illegal and taboo. No more bacon pasted on elevator doors to mark American carnality. No more bad public sculpture. No more buildings unless carved from marble by hand. No more paint sold in tubes. This is a book onto itself.)
RaVIP was, when sober and not under the influence of cocaine, a weasel. While the board was partying their success, he bought a building in Tribeca, exercising his founder’s privilege, for a very sweet price. Now the board was permanently endowed and burdened. They could not escape and were thus put back in their proper orbitals around Sun Ravip.
The new digs were right next to Manhattan’s power grid – no one would buy it. The professors rioted and declared it off limits. The students lost their hair over it. Ravip had to now suppress the peasant revolt, so he would turn up in his bathrobe and slippers and stroll the halls with exactly the same ’80 football game contraption declaring the inter-atomic spaces were safe.
We were not fooled, and the paint peeled off Levitan’s Thesis Project. Jim’s sculpture shed its arms too, but we blamed the plaster mix.
(I write this missive as a protest. My wife hurled my laptop out the window into the neighbor’s yard.)
There were some interesting shadow art of office workers in varying positions on the western wall that was in fact 15′ from the giant antennae formations emitting audible hum of evil rays. At the time, I had attributed them to a very talented student working out compositions ala caveman, but now I’m not certain.
Wow where did you get your weed? Potent stuff!
This is actually all pretty accurate autobiography. The silly stuff such as peeling paint is varnish, but everything else is completely true including the performance art (read up on Warhol’s swan song), slippers, EM meters, charlatans, and young levitan, absolutely naive and who missed out on the fun, and the toga’d ballerinas who couldn’t possibly fit into padded toe slippers who were stowed by the Epstein’s one floor above my studio.
All true. I, who enjoys stories, could not possibly make it up much less want to. Tons of weeds in my back forty. I’ve smoked them all and all I got was a blue-greenish tinge to my skin.
Who is bringing the tin foil hats?
You got a supply in the basement, TONE?
I wear one in my backyard which gets a high amount of meteorite activity. They are quite good at bouncing them off into the back forty.
How do you protect from green Kyrptonite, though?
I’m not affected by Kryptonite. And regular radiation is in fact perfectly harmless.
Repo Man (9/10) Movie CLIP – Hitching a Ride With J. Frank Parnell (1984) HD – Bing video
Don’t step in any brown Kryptonite on North Street
President’s Day 2022 is cancelled, until America finds one……..
Larry Elder being attacked in California by the far left and a racist comment was made against him, but not a word from President Biden about this. Instead he sends his VP Harris and Massachusetts own Lizzie Warren to pump up support for Newsom in California. If an African American doesn’t support their radical agenda, they will destroy him any way they can.
Bidens rule. Taxes,spending, fear (covid)
Maybe Lieawatha Warren is going to CA Indian reservations, to try to get some Native American DNA in her body?
No donors?
Maybe seek much wampum or smoke peace pipe?
Drove by the fire scene on Vibrant and Dynamic North Street this afternoon. This building is privately owned by the Culpo family. There were at least five City of Pittsfield trucks and their workers boarding up all the windows and also installing a chain link fence around the entire property. Why are the taxpayers paying for this? Should it not be the owner of the building? Are the Culpo’s friends of the Mayor? Meanwhile taxpayers are waiting for their request to be taken care of on the Vibrant and Dynamic PITTSMART app. Nothing makes sense in Tyerville.
M&B
You know better than to ask such questions. They are a sign of disloyalty! Last sentence says it all. The inmates aren’t running the asylum. The inmates have had the sense to flee. It’s a death march from now to the end.
Probably because there’s a criminal investigation. At some point the city will bill them or their insurance company.
Someone is having a funny conversation at dinner tonight fer shur in the city where everything is a secret and nothing is unknown.
Pittsmart app doesn’t even work!