!PLANET EXCLUSIVE! COAKLEY REVEALS LATEST PEDA BRAINSTORM: THE TUNNEL TO NOWHERE
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION SEPT. 24-6, 2021 — You didn’t hear it at the time because they didn’t want you to know.
THE PLANET knew about it. Recently we got the confirmation.
More PEDA failure.
Yeah, that’s about as newsworthy as another James Taylor trifle by our good friend Clarence Fanto. Take comfort that it’s business as usual at the Pittsfield Economic Destruction Authority.
In March, two companies contacted the city expressing interest in PEDA property. “Mayor” Deanna Suffer, er, Rubber, uh, Ruffer — yeah, that’s it, Ruffer — put them in contact with Michael Coakley, Pittsfield’s business manager. That’s like Ryan Leaf, the NFL-s all-time worst quarterback (Art Schlichter? JaMarcus Russell?), handing off on third-and-long to a wheelchaired Stephen Hawkins for a run up the middle into the Fearsome Foursome.
———- ooo ———-
The two businesses that took one closer look and then booked. What scared them away? The amount of money they would have to throw away on site preparation.
Such sins trace back to the late ex-mayor Gerry Doyle and his PEDA enabler, then-executive director Tom Hickey. Doyle and Hickey got rooked and crooked at the bargaining table going against General Electric’s top legal sharks. These two schnooks — a rumdum and a humdrum — allowed GE to escape without having to restore the 52 acres it gladly pawned off to the snookered duo.
Of course, it didn’t help to have the EPA secretly working against Pittsfield. Not that Doyle and Hickey ever knew. Hickey had one essential task when the secret negotiations took place in Boston, and that was to keep Gerry out of the Combat Zone. Yeah, and do you think there’s a reason the city has never released the transcripts of the talks?
You did’t hear about the March madness because … well, let’s just say that unlike broken clocks that are correct twice a day, a broken record never plays straight. After nearly a quarter-century of the Consent Agreement Era, such look-and-books have occurred frequently. Legitimate companies don’t want do perform the expensive remediation work Pittsfield did not demand of GE.\
———- ooo ———-
Michael Coakley and Linda Tyer, Pittsfield’s economic braintrusts.
Last Friday, Coakley led the PEDA “braintrust” through the latest hare-brained scheme, a tunnel to connect three prominent parcels in the business complex. THE PLANET guesses that Coakley has seen The Great Escape one time too many. Or perhaps he still thinks the Hoosac Tunnel is Emlen Tunnel’s older brother. Is Coakley old enough to have been a fan of the TV show The Time Tunnel? Does he have tunnel vision?
Coakley explained to the assembled PEDA geniuses that a “large manufacturing and distribution company” is “interested” in the three parcels. Naturally, they never tell you any details about the “interested companies,” much less naming them. That’s because when they say “some companies are interested,” such businesses don’t exist. We’ve had nearly a quarter century now of “interested companies” and not one legitimate hit, a genuine city fairly tale.
Coakley told the PEDA braintrust that the “interested company” wants PEDA sites 7, 8, and 9. With a straight face, he said that the “interested company’s” main drawback is the traffic at Woodlawn Avenue and Kellogg Street. They don’t want to have to drive between sites.
Seriously.
He then said “we” looked at rail lines,” then, contradicting himself, said it was the city and not the “interested company” that didn’t want the “interested company’s” trucks driving over Pittsfield streets, “so we looked at the feasibility of doing a tunnel between [sic] site [sic] seven eight, and nine.”
Then in practically the same breath, Coakley said there’s yet “another interested company” that has inquired about parcel 3 (next to the BIC). He named no names.
———- ooo ———-
Now comes the kicker, the one that reveals this entire charade.
Coakley says the tunnel would be a tremendous boost for the city, whether the companies come or not.
In other words, they ain’t coming, no way, no how.
Nonetheless, the city wants to spend a couple million on a tunnel to nowhere. It’s just using the “interested company” as an excuse to build it — the old Pittsfield switcheroo.
As Crazy Eddie used to say, “It’s inSAAAAANNNNEEEEEEEEEE!!!”
Have a great weekend, everybody.
———————————————————————————–
“You can’t go broke taking a profit” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
(c) 2021 By PLANET VALENTI & EUROPOLIS MANAGEMENT. The views and opinions expressed in the comment section or in the text other than those of PLANET VALENTI are not necessarily endorsed by the operators of this website. PLANET VALENTI assumes no responsibility for such views and opinions, and it reserves the right to remove or edit any comment, including but not limited to those that violate the website’s Rules of Conduct and its editorial policies. PLANET VALENTI shall not be held responsible for the consequences that may result from any posted comment or outside opinion or commentary as provided in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and this website’s terms of service. All users of this website — including readers, commentators, contributors, or anyone else making use of its information — hereby agree to these conditions by virtue of this notice. When PLANET VALENTI ends with the words “The Usual Disclaimer,” that phrase shall be understood to refer to the full text of this disclaimer.
Mike is dubious. Trust me.
September 23, 2021
Hello Patrick Fennell,
I agree with you. The 80 year old group of Democrats in the Swamp are a debacle. Biden should resign. Pelosi should resign. Chuck Schumer is unable to lead his slim one-vote Democrat majority in the U.S. Senate without dissention in the ranks. Inflation is the WORST indirect tax on the underclass and working class. The Democrats are spending way over $10 trillion federal dollars in 2021 without raising revenues because Springfield’s own PAC Man Richie Neal sold his soul to the Devil via K Street. You are correct about everything you wrote to me today.
—–
P.S. 23-year-old PEDA is near financial insolvency, and if PEDA suddenly has new financial resources, please tell us where the money magically appeared from; thank you.
What a buffoon.
Thanks.
You should Move back to Pittsfield. You’d fit right in. I mean it. No joke.
Let’s see! 80 year olds and JM is in his 40 ‘s +.Looks like he voted for these types over half his life and now agrees they are now swap creatures. Ok.
Emlen The Gremlin wore # 45 before Homer Jones.
These tunnels would be a great economic engine, especially if they had bike lanes.
If they add bike lands to the tunnels it will be a boon to all mankind!
Brilliant!! Thanks, NSJ.
Another one in the loss column for out nippleustrious DA.
TWELVE CHARGES OF ARMED ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED MURDER!
“Anthony Chambers, of Adams, was found not guilty by a jury of 12 of charges of armed assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The jury returned its verdict just before 3 p.m. Thursday, following a two-day trial that began on Tuesday. It was the first criminal trial before a jury in Berkshire County Superior Court during the pandemic.”
I wonder if this is the same person, same MO. Drugs in an apartment, group of people fighting, someone gets stabbed.
https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/court-of-appeals/2012/10-p-60.html
Another violent offender on the streets thanks to Andrea Harrington and her team of bozos. This is the case they chose as first up after two and half years. You would think it would be a layup but the DA doesn’t have any control over the trial list. That’s because she doesn’t know what she doesn’t know once again.
This is not happening by accident. Harrington got elected on a platform that the police unjustly prosecute drug dealers. She has said the courts promote social inequality by prosecuting them. She fired any prosecutor that doesn’t uphold these views. She has them routinely throw out charges on trafficking and tries to get new trials for drug dealers. If you combine this with baisc legal incompetence this is what you get. If you voted for Andrea Harrington or are a pac like the Berkshire Brigades YOU are to blame.
Meanwhile, the campaign for her reelection continues. Our tax dollars at work. https://berkshireolli.org/DAFall2021
Were is:
1) Using the legal system to persecute people of different political views.
2) Setting thugs free 101; 25 year olds are still juveniles
3) How to criticize Judges and get away with it.
………….
4) Employee Blame Game
5) Resume inflation
6) Fake hate crimes 101
I’m waiting for the North Street to PEDA monorail!!!! Or maybe a SKYTRAIN!!!!!!!!!!
For now you can ride a unicycle down North Street
Tunnels to nowhere. Or, tunnels to funnel money to friendly contractors who may give a little something back. So when does that forensic audit actually start?
Maybe there should be tunnels under North street for the bike folk.
Speaking of the bike folk, rumors are that Chciopee tried the bike loop downtown thingy and now is saying it was a bust of an idea. May do away with it altogether. Huge waste of money. Look it up if you can. Masslive wants you to subscribe and no local outlet is going to cover that story I guarantee it.
https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampshire-county/bike-lane-concrete-barriers-removed-in-northampton-after-businesses-file-petition/
A much more vibrant and dynamic city did it and got rid of it. They did leave a narrow bike lane on the outskirts of the city but that had been there for years. North Hampton easily has 100x the daily traffic of bikes. They even have a bike economy.
Bikes are good to get around. The city should provide places to lock them up and BRTA does well for long distance travel, I commend BRTA not the city, and biking is healthy.
The people who did North Street should be in gallows at Park Square all winter.
If city wants to lay out cash, do it so people can get along with basic needs/transportation if they don’t have a car.
Not a bad idea, TRAPPER. Gallows in Park Square. Public hangings. Market it as a tourist draw. Another economic engine for “vibrant, dynamic” Tyerville.
For less guilty criminals, the stocks could be used. Like 7/3 of city clowncil
BIKER
It’s interesting that the business community banded together and essentially stormed city hall. Such an approach would work here, but for some reason, local businesses seem reluctant to do so. Could it be fear of retaliation?
An insurrection? Someone could get shot.
https://www.thereminder.com/localnews/chicopee/chicopee-councilors-discuss-removal-of-center-loop/
CHICOPEE – City Council officials have opened up discussion to removing the recently-established Center Loop bike path.
Ordinances centered on removing the bike path were formed during the Sept. 7 City Council meeting, with the Ordinance Committee gathering on Sept. 14 to continue the discussion. Chicopee received a $76,600 grant to install the bike path back in January, ultimately completing installation in August. According to the city’s press release, the bike path was planned to be re-evaluated in July 2022, while also being removed during winter months due to inclement weather.
During the Center Loop’s initial months of implementation, the designated pathway has received universal critiques for numerous reasons. “I haven’t heard one good thing said about that bike path, most people I talk to say they are totally against it,” said City Council and City Ordinance committee member Robert Zygarowski. He explained that several businesses have been negatively impacted by the loop due to its impact on local parking. With several convenient downtown parking spots being removed, Zygarowski shared that one business warned him about their potential closure from decreased business.
The Center Loop’s removal of parking has been an evolving issue. While the city recommended the use of on-street parking and several parking lots in their initial press release, the dearth of spots has led to congested parking across nearby areas. Chicopee citizen Roy Nawrocki spoke at the Chicopee Ordinance Committee meeting about the parking impacts, stating that the overuse of side streets has had a lingering impact on the city. “You can’t even fit a street sweeper down there…it’s going to put a lot more pressure on the Department of Public Works (DPW),” said Nawrocki.
Another concern about the bike path derives from its impact on safety. Due to the bike path’s design, people using the loop have to exit onto the street or sidewalk when crossing certain areas. According to citizen Matt Topher, several patrons are ignoring the bike path due to the area’s deficiencies. “There’s cracks in the road and broken bottles…it really isn’t for this city at this time,” said Topher.
After citizens addressed their concerns, the Ordinance Committee discussed the state of the Center Loop. While the committee agreed that the Center Loop wasn’t without promise, it was clear that the execution was having a negative impact on the town. “It just didn’t work out, it wasn’t what I thought it was going to be,” said City Council and Ordinance Committee member James K. Tillotson.
Three ordinances were presented in the committee’s agenda to completely reverse the bike path’s inclusion, including restoring the parking signage that was previously in place. Each of the three ordinances were passed by the Ordinance Committee. Since the town sincerely attempted to implement the Center Loop, Chicopee will not have to pay the grant back, according to Tillotson.
Zygarowski shared the next steps in removing the Center Loop. The passed ordinances will be discussed by the City Council at their Sept. 23 meeting before a final decision is made. From there, Mayor John Vieau has seven days to veto the decision before DPW can remove the Center Loop.
CHICOPEE, MA (WGGB/WSHM)– A post caught our attention online. A Chicopee resident writing wrote, in part, “What are these white things? They seem to have appeared overnight around Chicopee Center. Not asking to be snarky, I’ve legit never seen anything like these.”
We were curious too, so we sought out some answers.
“It’s hideous. It’s absolutely ridiculous,” said Marty Top0r, owner of Central Oil.
Chicopee business owners are upset over new wave delineators placed in the city’s center. Topor said the new bike lane barriers make no sense.
“It’s a bike path to nowhere. It starts and it goes in a circle…for what?” said Topor.
Stanley Szlachetka is worried about accessibility.
“With these new bike lanes, it’s going to make it difficult for handicapped people to get into our building,” said Szlachetka, owner/operator of 10 Center St. Chicopee.
uh oh…will the Eagle mention this anywhere? Maybe the mayor knew this was coming and that is why she wanted to fast track the contract for the Springside track. We need to get that contract signed before someone comes to their senses. Steamroll that sumbitch!
She is proven incompetent, and can’t be trusted.
Left Winged Parrot is cut and paste news, or what their handlers give them.
Amazing how some communities will admit something isn’t working and own it plus move on. Not here in Vibrantville , no way! Citizens are going to get more misery. Misery loves company.
In Pittsfield they don’t care if it works or not. The point is to keep the money flowing by creating feel good projects and then fleecing any pocketbook they can pry open.
Tunnels will fill up with transformer oil (PCBs) in short order. Remember the bakery on Newell street?………..
Good thing is then the oil could get pumped out to fix the shoddy “cleanup” Doyle did.
That is 100% true.
+1 TSC
Traitor Joseph Stolens America……
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/fda-official-blow-dart-african-americans-with-covid-vaccine-is-where-were/
FDA Official: ‘Blow Dart’ African Americans with COVID Vaccine is ‘Where We’re Going…Just Shoot Everyone’ … Calls for a ‘Nazi Germany’ Style ‘Registry’ of Unvaccinated Americans: ‘Think About It Like The Jewish Star’
“[WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sept. 22, 2021] Project Veritas released the second video of its COVID vaccine investigative series today exposing U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA] economist, Taylor Lee, who was recorded calling for forced COVID vaccinations and a registry for all unvaccinated Americans.”
“Nazi Germany…I mean, think about it like the Jewish Star [for unvaccinated Americans],” he said.”
Could this tunnel remind us of the big dig? It’s those damn contingency fees.
Melle you are completely missing the boat. The Nazis are controlling your own Dem party!
I’m not John
Hunter & Joe Xiden, Komila Harris, Nancy Pelousy, and the rest of the Dems are tanking our country, but Donald Trump is still an EVIL Nazi!!!! Vote them ALL OUT!!!! STOP EXTREMISM on both sides!!!!
Get a grip, dude.
He has a grip alright! Good thing zoom isn’t involved here.
His Jewish grandkids think you use the Nazi term a little to loosely ,as do others.
Just making a comment to Marxist Melle concerning the great Project Veritas article you (Trapper) posted.
He didn’t miss the SS Fruit Loops Dingy though. He is the captain.
How’d that Arizona Recount go Rube!
AZ is going to flip. > 44,000 illegal ballots, Booby
“Donald J Trump
@realdonaldtrump
CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, and other Lamestream Media are feeding large-scale misinformation to the public about the Arizona Audit. The Audit was a big win for democracy and a big win for us. Shows how corrupt the Election was. Arizona State Senate hearing going on now and the information about what took place is terrible—a bigger Scam even than anticipated!”
Even the Trump loving fools in AZ concluded that Biden won AZ by even more votes! Hah!
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-elections-arizona-phoenix-conspiracy-theories-d38321441bcd6cea58421f6871b4f74e
Clearly you gave trouble reading actual details. They concluded about 80?thousand or so votes should not have been counted since the people didn’t life there. Try harder.
“Clearly you gave trouble”? “Didn’t life there”? Write clearly.
From the auditors themselves:
“[T]here were no substantial differences between the hand count of the ballots provided and the official canvass results for the County. This is an important finding because the paper ballots are the best evidence of voter intent and there is no reliable evidence that the paper ballots were altered to any material degree.”
This is Trump’s birther lie all over again.
These idiots in AZ wasted $6 million to prove what anyone with a functioning brain has known since last November: Trump lost fair and square.
Deal with it.
Again you skipping the most important part which is significant voter fraud occurred on that 80k people voted that should not have
Try harder or leave
Trump lost. Suck it up.
Just like Clinton in 2016 right?
Not to mention, the hard drives were erased the day before Maricopa County turned over their devices. And this after a court order.
And to think, Trump got impeached over a “phone call.” Couldn’t imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and one of Trump’s people did this….
But this is coming from Bleak House. The guy who stole from his employers because he felt he wasn’t getting paid enough. Its to bad you weren’t a Wal-Mart manager in today’s day and age. With Wrong Way in office, you could steal the store blind and she doesn’t care.
The problem with Progressives like her and Linda, and Farley-Country-Buffet (D), it truly hurts the people they supposedly represent. You know, the POC, that they use for photo-ops and press releases. The market, in this case Wal-Mart, passes that loss onto the consumer, you!!
But when your salary is well above $100,000, what’s a few bucks? Funny you never hear them offer to take a 50% pay cut to help POC.
Very very true. Well put
Yet more idiocy from the Trump cult.
Every single thing Markus said was accurate.
Every
Single
Thing
And lefties like you still don’t admit Trump won in 2016. Game over. You lose
Trump did win in 2016, with help from Putin.
Trump lost in 2020.
Everything “Markus” types is hyberbolic, conspiratorial garbage.
There was no help from Putin. Everyone knows this. Markus has you nailed
Our intelligence agencies have concluded otherwise. HT and “Markus” can content themselves with living in the bowels of the internet and their laughable conspiracy theories.
Completely false. Try harder. Everything you type is a lie
My posts are supported by facts, not by conspiratorial garbage your slurp up from Bretibart, TGP, Zerohedge, Lifesite News, Levin, and Fox.
Trump supporters live in a twilight zone of lies and idiocy.
Made up so called “facts” by left wing sites are not facts. Try harder
So, how do you determine what news is real and what news is “fake.” News isn’t fake because you don’t like it.
Any news you approve of is clearly fake
Well maybe this is how houseless Pete is going to take care of the houseless! JM what proof do you have that Trump is a Nazi, this could be considered slander, hate speech and grounds to kick you off social media so I hope you are careful. I am not sure what you would do without your outlets. PEDA was always a shell game for the in crowd to get extra money for themselves. Again there was no accountability nor timelines. The city council should vote for a forensic audit right now. If they don’t us voters should take that as a no vote for one. I hope everyone is able to stay dry today:)
My proof that Donald Trump is a Nazi:
Jonathan Melle on Politics: Fascist US President Donald Trump normalizes racism, violence, and injustice!
Also, Planet Valenti edited away most of my post to conservative political activist Patrick Fennell. To be clear, I am upset with both sides in the Swamp.
I’m starting to believe you twisted out of context what you say certain politicians and others did to you and about you when you were here. Like your doing now with your rant.
My dad was a politician and I was a target of retribution in Pittsfield politics for many years of my then young adult life. You and others can believe whatever the hell you want to think about it all. “All in the Family” incestuous Pittsfield politics stinks more that the dead skunk odor plaguing the working class neighborhood behind the Dalton Avenue Pittsfield marijuana cultivation buildings. So take your views about my negative experiences with Pittsfield politics decades ago and stuff it!
You tell em.Jonny
It wasn’t retribution, It was an intervention of sorts because of the concerns they had with your behavior you were displaying which became even more of a concern for them, when the situation escalated to where some felt it was growing more into a threatening level in your behavior towards certain people. Some were in fear for your well being and themselves.
The mental health and behavioral concerns do NOT explain everything that happened to me and my dad back then.
So move on already. It happened to you and your dad decades ago Jon. Reread that, decades ago. That means more than twenty years ago. People have had children who are now of legal drinking age when all of that happened.
Not to say anything mean about your family, but you really should have been treated medically a long time ago.
Your harboring hatred this long, is frankly scary. Your like the guy who still wants revenge on his high school girlfriend who broke up with him 25+ years ago.
Move on.
I will move on from it when everyone else stops being mean to me about it. It is hard to break abusive cycles, including in Pittsfield politics.
JM, you just don’t get it. You bring “everybody being mean to me,” on your own.
I’ll try and break it down to you in the simplest way I can. Here is the example:
You are like the kid in school who picked his nose and ate it. You did this even after being warned by bigger male students to stop. Why? It’s gross and not funny. You on the other hand think it’s hilarious and continue you to do it, until you get beat up. Then you run to the teacher and tattle. The teacher punishes the student, who was more than likely a lot more liked and popular than you. So now, his friends also don’t like you.
You rinse, repeat, and recycle this scenario another time or two, until the teacher realizes it was you who was perpetrating the butt-kickings you were getting. You deserved them.
After all this, you never look in the mirror and take blame. Instead, it was the teacher’s fault, the kids who warned you to stop’s fault, so on and so forth.
Sound about right?
Not proof, just left wing thoughts written by left wing people pushing an agenda with no proof. Now if you said he followed Mr. Byrd you would have something…hold on that was the Democrats, yes Hilary and Schumer and probably Pelosi
Biden is seeding the criminal aliens throughout the USA.
Look at Texas border.
“Man, I bet those disease-ridden savages all stink to high heaven!!! Not only do 40% + of them have the COVID, Haitians have one of the highest rates of AIDS of any country in the world. Nasty stinking petri-dishes!!!”
Not my words but close to accurate………thank Joe
More from Taylor Lee at FDA:
Taylor Lee, FDA Economist: “I think that a lot of the time — so there’s also this issue of — I remember reading about how with COVID [vaccine] trials, they were having an issue recruiting African American people. It was because of a different medication the government tried to do that was specifically designed to kill African Americans.”
Veritas Journalist: “Oh, so like a mistrust thing.”
Lee: “Yeah.”
Typical Pittsfield politics!
Pittsfield Solicitor Says Bike Track Consistent With Springside Park Uses / iBerkshires.com – The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.
The screeching of this vagina monologue is just too painful to listen to.
https://fb.watch/8dyLMax356/
She needs a bath. I can smell her stanky three towns away!!
Not a very nice thing for a valedictorian to say. Valedictorians need to show class. Work on that and stop behaving like a first class bozo.
Still haven’t learned a thing at all….
and it is sad that you haven’t but there is still time. Being nice once in a while has its rewards. Try it sometime.
Gross and unnecessary, C’mon. P
Let me say how sorry I am to the Trump won blog.The news that Biden is getting more votes on your billionaire backed recounts must be devastating….so so sorry as your hearts are broken
Clearly you did not read the actual analysts. Which states Biden got more votes but the votes are not legal. The people did not live there
Trump wannabes,you love his whisper.
That really makes no sense. I suggest a remedial grammar course
And maybe he should stay away from LSD
You love their poop on Your head
or the machines, the dead, …………..or men running machines in Germany………
Guy in CA was upset his parents voted for Newsom in the recalll………he visited and scolded them for nearly an hour……..then he left the cemetery.
Until this is resolved we don’t have a nation.
I heard that some libral malcontent dropped a moldy taco into his voting machine and it was counted as two votes for Biden. And when it was discovered to be an error another libral counted it as four votes. How does this sort of thing happen in 2020?? It’s awful I tell ya, just awful.
Did it come from Dotties?
Legal and illegal votes are one in the same to these people as long as they are counted for the D party. No difference to them.
Could we name the tunnels the fallopian tubes as they’ll deliver an egg that will develop into a vibrant and dynamic Pittsfield?
What did one sperm say to the other?
Hey man I can’t wait to be a Taliban!
Dude, we’re in goat.
I posted the other day about never hearing politicians talking about welfare running out of money, but always talking about social security running out. Here we are again. The working taxpayers are funding the never ending welfare $$ and yet have to worry about the
retirement $$ for themselves.
https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2021/09/24/new-trustees-report-for-social-security-should-raise-alarm-bells-n446967
Corporate socialism has never runout of money.
Potato chips….. see I can do it too (string random words together)
Voting season
Yup, forgot that part. Election time does bring about recycled issues that the politicians didn’t take care of because they need to be re-elected to do so once again. Repeat and rinse.
one more time so it don’t get lost
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/fda-official-blow-dart-african-americans-with-covid-vaccine-is-where-were/
Pete White’s homelessness tunnels
Ys. That must be it. Pete’s “secret plan” to address the “houselessness” in Pittsfield.
In Las VEgas there are thousands living in tunnels beneath the city. It does not rain there much but when it does Mad Trapp gets his annual bathing.
Dumb all over, a little ugly on the side….Fizze
No word on where the three home invaders who seriously wounded a guy on Mohawk st the other day. Sounds like they are still out there waging the gang war. And that gang war may be the real reason no Halloween parade on Tyler street.
If you do not live on the outskirts of the city where it is safe please be extra careful, espcecially on the west side and morning-side areas.
Meanwhile, the hell with safety it’s about the campaign. Berkshire Brigages under Megan Whilden etc continues duping voters about Harrington. Whilden is a longtime Harrington contributor/campaigner who runs this program at BCC. Next up is a series on “Inside the District Attorneys Office.” How do the people’s lawyers have time to fool senior voters when they can’t even try a case? Why are they doing this when they have barely been to trial for over 2 yrs? Will anyone ask them what the deal is with the horrible reputation of the Berkshire DA’s office under Harrington’s direction?
https://berkshireolli.org/DAFall2021
Megan actually is an old Ruberto girl. As am I.
Incompetent Harrington Slapped by Judge
DA Harrington asked for 15-18 in state prison for a 15 year old. Judge went with the recommendation of actual expert told her to go F herself. This is what happens when the prosecutor consults with their “supervisor.”
A Pittsfield juvenile found guilty of aggravated rape of a child with force was sentenced to DYS custody this week.
PITTSFIELD — A Pittsfield juvenile found guilty of charges including aggravated rape of a child with force was sentenced this week.
Dylan Welch, 17, was sentenced by Judge Joan McMenemy on Monday to the custody of the Department of Youth Services until he is 21, followed by five years on probation during which Welch must comply with a number conditions, including that he no contact with the victim, remain employed or in school, be drug- and alcohol-free, submit to GPS location monitoring and attend an intimate-partner abuse program.
If Welch violates the conditions, McMenemy ordered him to serve 15 to 18 years in state prison.
Welch must also register as a sex offender.
McMenemy issued the penalty at a sentencing hearing in Berkshire Juvenile Court that was attended by family members of both the victim and Welch.
CRIME
17-year-old Pittsfield resident convicted of aggravated rape of a child
The sentence McMenemy adopted was recommended by the juvenile court Probation Department. The recommended sentence from the office of District Attorney Andrea Harrington, who was present at Monday’s hearing, was 15 to 18 years of direct time in state prison.
Welch was convicted by a jury in late June of aggravated rape of a child with force and attempted extortion. The jury found that in 2019, Welch, who was 15 at the time, raped a 14-year-old girl near the railroad tracks in a wooded area of Pittsfield. The girl suffered extensive internal injuries that required emergency surgery at Berkshire Medical Center.
When a victim really needs a DA, this was the time. Not some BS press release with cute t-shirts and balloons.
My heart goes out to the poor victim and her family. They have a long road ahead. Wrong Way certainly didn’t help.
To put in perspective, if the judge was going to hammer a 15 year-old (at the time of offense) in MA, for 15-18 years, that tells you how bad it was. People in Pittsfield have been shot multiple times and lived and the offender gets a 7-10 year sentence. Well, with the former DA’s Office that is. Certainly not with Wrong Way’s Office.
What that tells you is how Harrington’s political agenda skews her sentence recommendations. Anytime a female is a victim there is an automatic max recommendation. Yes, what the juvenile was found to have done is terrible but 15-18 years in state prison for a crime committed when someone was 15 is beyond the pale. It is so sad that the office that is supposed to dispense justice is nothing more than a campaign for a political hack.
Isn’t the section 8 project on Mohawk St. the same project where violent convicted PPD Thug McHugh was stabbed under shady circumstances? And what about the July 16, 2021 home invasion at 18 Broad St. where two armed masked suspects allegedly held hostages. Are masked armed perpetrators of this violent home invasion/kidnapping/hostage situation being held as dangerous? Were the unnamed armed masked home invaders/kidnappers freed because they’re negroes? Are the armed masked suspects relatives of shirley sharpton edgerton?
On the subject of Pittsfield’s deceitful mayor, I guess if no one looks for corruption in Pittsfield, MA NONE WILL BE FOUND! Unlike the corruption of 29-year-old disgraced ex-Fall River mayor Jasial F. Correia convicted on 24 of the 26 charges against him, including charges of filing false tax returns and extorting and conspiring to extort marijuana vendors for hundreds of thousands of dollars. An elected corrupt deceitful criminal politician, abusing the public trust, because he can, because he’s the mayor! I have to wonder if Jasial’s wife was sneaking around city hall on the night Jasial was elected mayor. Which reminds me, EXACTLY how much has Pittsfield collected from marijuana sales and EXACTLY what are Pittsfield’s deceitful politicians doing with it?
There is ZERO oversight in Pittsfield. No one is watching and no one dares to care. Knowing this, many, many people have pack up their belongings and children and headed to hopefully better places. The trajectory of the decline of the downward spiral of Pittsfield, Ma is steepening.
The city has all the money in the world but has been flatly refusing to do an independent forensic audit to see if there are better financial management options in the city. And the taxpayers cannot imagine why this would be, when all this money is being tossed around for dog parks and tunnels and bike trails and tax breaks and park upgrades.
Just don’t make sense.
If they were masked they got a pass for being covid conscious.
https://www.projectveritas.com/video/covid-19-release-3/
Whoops, thought that was the newest one. Was last spring.
DA screws up again.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/pittsfield-juvenile-convicted-of-aggravated-rape-of-a-child-sentenced-to-dys-custody/article_0c6237f2-1d48-11ec-acaa-63c1437dd9f1.html
Dylan Welch, 17, was sentenced by Judge Joan McMenemy on Monday to the custody of the Department of Youth Services until he is 21, followed by five years on probation during which Welch must comply with a number conditions, including that he no contact with the victim, remain employed or in school, be drug- and alcohol-free, submit to GPS location monitoring and attend an intimate-partner abuse program.
If Welch violates the conditions, McMenemy ordered him to serve 15 to 18 years in state prison.
So Wrong Way couldn’t even get real jail time for this rapist, one who has made his victim infertile due to the internal injuries he inflicted on her with objects.
DA Andrea Harrington is a danger and a disgrace, if you’re a victim don’t expect real justice. They had so many screwups in this case and misfilings, the judge had no choice but to go very light on the sentencing.
The only murder case tried in 2 years and 9 months under Andrea Harringtons regime resulted in the accused murderer going free only to violently offend again. No justice. Got to go.
https://www.gazettenet.com/Pittsfield-murder-trial-29000312
https://wnyt.com/berkshire-mass-news/david-moody-laquan-johnson-shooting-glenwood-avenue-pittsfield-berkshire-county/5790774/
I have questions.
While he is on probation is he still considered a legal juvenile? Not a the brain isn’t fully grown up yet juvenile, but a legal juvenile? Thomas Skakel as a middle-aged man was considered a juvenile because his alleged defense was committed when he was a juvenile.
Why did nobody advise this guy Welch to take the state bid and just get it over with?
What do the algorithms say about is propensity to reoffend or violate and end up there anyway?
Not that he would survive, but hey, there’s restorative justice and then there’s restorative justice, y’know?
You should be pissed at the judge, not the DA. The judge hands down the sentence, not the DA.
Clearly multiple judges are punishing Harrington for her incompetence..
The judges and the cops hate the DA’s office and the defense attorneys are running right over them. Time for a new DA. She should resign in the name of justice.
Harrington asked for an inappropriate sentence because she was trying to grandstand. These are the same judges everyone else has had to deal with. Just like Trump, it’s never Andrea’s fault.
Nailed it!
Does anyone know what was going on in Pittsfield last night? A lot of bang, banging going on. I wasn’t sure if it was a gang fight or fireworks? A very sad commentary on the state of the city if you ask me:(
State of America
Shirley, heard all the bangs also. As usual there is no PPD Presslog this morning. Generally if Tyerville has a rough night they don’t post one for a few days if not at all. Probably have to have it edited by the Mayor and Mike Wynn. After all there is NO CRIME in Tyerville, it is HAPPY land with DYNAMIC bike lanes.
Also, I reside in the neighborhood of Berkshire Roots and Bloom Brothers and witness terrible reckless driving on Dalton Ave. & Merrill Road and surrounding streets daily. I am wondering if there is some secret pact between the Mayor and PPD that they are not allowed to pull over NY cars going to these establishments since they are constantly committing traffic violations. Guess the taxes collected from these racing maniacs is more important to the Mayor, The same Mayor for some reason who won’t divulge to taxpayers how much money has been taken in or what she is doing with it. Guess her secret stash is more important to her than the safety of Pittsfield residents trying to drive on Pittsfield roads and trying to enjoy their over taxed homes in once quiet neighborhoods.
And most of the current councilors with the exception of a couple won’t even call on the mayor to address any of those issues you mentioned. The same ones who claim they want to hear from the public for input.
Back to the obsession with the Mayor. It really is a sickness. You should seek help.
Talk about obsession, you have a very unhealthy obsession with both Liar Tyer and Nipples Harrington. Do they pay you to protect them? You always support both of these women’s back handed ways of doing their jobs! You also seem to have an obsession with me. You need to seek help ASAP.
Another week and more lies from the Biden administration. All of the Haitians under the bridge would be removed from the country they said, but only 10% were. The rest were spread unvaccinated across the country. This is nearly 13,000 people as the Biden administration and their cronies shame Americans into getting their vaccines. As they see Americans losing their jobs for not getting their vaccines. As they said the medical field is losing so many people who refuse to get vaccines that they need to bring in foreign healthcare workers, but don’t worry, they will make sure they are vaccinated. We can’t trust anything the Biden administration is saying after all the lies and one rule for Americans and another for illegal immigrants.
The DA, she wants money. She don’t give two fucks about Justice.
The Kapanskis pay the DA 191K plus a car. For that she does whatever she wants and boycotts local media. She doesn’t have to answer to the Kapanskis or anyone else. Andrea Harrington gives no effs about justice or truth and freedom of the press either. At this point, pretty much any lawyer in the county can run and win on that platform.
A real like the ones we used to have deserve the car and the salary. Only Harrington got a car and doesn’t do the job or put any mileage on it for anything other than campaigning.
She is a fool and even worse a dangerous fool when it comes to the way she is operating her DA’s office as a SJW.
Maybe instead of useless bandaid backpacks and begging for victims services money Harrington could effectively prosecute crime?
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2021/09/21/how-to-spend-5-billion-in-covid-relief-mass-state-legislature-hears-public-health-proposals
FOX VIEWERS love Don Trumps calming voice especially when he calls for a overthrow of our democracy.Trapper addicted to his whisper.
Time for your meds.
Better double your dose, TSC.
So Pittsfield, Ma. has just opened its brand new quarter million dollar dog park and the write up makes it sound just lovely. (thought there was a line in the iberkshires article that indicated people from other towns can bring their dogs here as well) Talks about all the doggies getting together and playing happily and the taxpayers are paying for dog poop bags for other peoples dogs. How awesome is that? I wonder how many doggie owners will even pick up their dogs poop. And I do wonder about such things because if you walk the Ashwillte trail you see dog poop right on the trail. And some people do pick up the poop and properly put it in the little colored baggies and then toss them towards the surrounding swamp and some just get caught in the bushes. Very sad. I also read recently that there was a contagious respiratory canine virus going around that was quite worrisome so be careful out there doggies.
And if a park for little doggies to play in cost almost a quarter million dollars of taxpayer money just imagine how much taxpayers might have to pay for a tunnel under, let’s say, Woodlawn avenue. Woodlawn avenue where pcb’s and other migrating chemicals might show up. Also wondering how long it might take if it takes years to fix a bridge like the little one on Pecks road.
How many years the bridge on Holmes been a 1-laner?
Who is willng to say the Clown Trump is their kind of man.And a CLOWN will lead them.That whispering clown talking hi and then low giving you comfort at his weird rallies with his lullaby speeches always returning to the odd whisper and just watching wannabe Trumps with the budwieser hats getting excited at nothing but wanting more and more whisper as he sprinkles fairy dust on the church of Dons addicts.Then they give him the keys to the kingdom and he destroys everything and then he whispers again and they think he has not abandoned us and his whisper is better than ever…..At the same exact moment I see the complete ahole from NYC that talked big and always always failed.That guy has found his groove with you and its his WHISPER….Trump Beck,Hannity,Alex Jones and the enemy of America FOX MEDIA the number one mainstream media like Rush will tell you guys exactly what to say and think.They make millions creating a monster for you to hate and its women and non white Americans.You cant overcome your addiction but you want others to overcome theirs……Simply turn the hate channel.
KoolAid lover!
We know for sure those voices your hearing in your head aren’t whispering.
TSC take your meds
Nance Pelosi is planning to force her 3 bills through this week that will break the United States economy and that is by design. They want to crash the economy to make way for their globalist economy. Many Americans are going to lose at least 40% of any savings they may have and these devious plans will give Nance and the globalists full control. It will mean huge amounts of money for Nance and her buddies and they are spreading lies that they know how to pay for it. They don’t care since the whole idea is to crash the economy, but they won’t tell that to the American public. Queen Nancy is planning for a very wealthy retirement thanks to the wool being pulled over the eyes of the American people.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/pelosi-insists-time-of-intensity-as-democrats-aim-to-pass-three-major-bills-in-one-week
Well, I have questions.
One, what is the actual exit route for manufacturers and trucks from the PEDA site? Is it over East Street or up/down Tyler?
East Street is an on-going traffic mess. Not to mention a road in terrible paved condition.
Tyler Street is, well, what IS going on at Tyler Street and Woodlawn? What the hell are they building or fixing or creating? Whatever it is, has it been designed to accommodate what one would hope to be an active an industrial park?
Two, what is the cost to fix the PEDA sites and make them more usable and attractive to prospects? Pittsfield has $40 million dollars to waste on bullshit (which they will absolutely spend on something dumb, no doubt). Since “revitalization” (or whatever) of the Morningside area is part of the Biden Bucks criteria, why not spend it on something that’s going to (theoretically) return on the investment?
Lastly, more Westside gunfire last night. I’m gonna call at least another murder or serious injury in the city before 2022…
Go Vibrancy!
Curtis will spend money to hide his lack of leadership skills
Covid facts that you should be aware of;
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/guardians-covid-crib-sheet-presents-facts/
Syracuse Hochul is another liberal NY disaster.
https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/24/andrew-cuomos-replacement-is-just-as-feckless-as-he-was/
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/25/new-york-faces-state-of-emergency-as-vaccine-mandate-creates-hospital-staff-shortages/
“If masks work to prevent respiratory viral spreading, how come they are not banned like hydroxychloroquine?”
Wouldn’t it be nice if the masks were able to prevent the bs coming from politicians from being spread to the citizens?
Or Donald could just shut the hell up
Hey Rube, if tRumpy wins the Texas recount audit, will he be reinstated as President. I Love my latest pillow I got from mypillow, so soft and comfy. USA USA
Pelosi is so shaky and stuttering and is looking more and more like Joe that it’s frightening what this unbalanced woman wants to do to this country with these 3 outrageously expensive bills that will make the price of everything in this country skyrocket. The purpose is to make people who can’t afford to live under such conditions to become dependent on the federal government and these devious people know that once that happens, big government owns these people because you don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Corruption will spiral out of control with the plans of Pelosi, Chucky, and Joe pushing through these bills. These people are the worst politicians this country has ever seen.