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Dan,
Thank you.
You’re welcome, TELL. And thank YOU for your participation here.
You’re most welcome Dan. I sincerely appreciate this forum and the hearty debate amongst posters.
Fireworks went off and was called in as shot spotter activity. I thought the shot spotter was supposed to distinguish the difference?
That software will be another 100,000 per year.
I have never understood the shot spotter – it seems like they should police to avoid shots being fired in the first place.
Especially in mid November. Have also been told nail roofing guns and even empty water bottles.Common Man.
Cops can’t be everywhere and there are only about 6 squad cars on the street, then less when we are handling calls and arrests. Not that I endorse the shit spotter – total waste of cash.
Poland has created a new national holiday to celebrate a successful insurrection against German rule. The uprising took place in the wake of World War One, as Poland sought to re-establish itself as an independent state following over a century of partition between Germany, Russia and Austria.
The new “National Day of the Victorious Greater Poland Uprising” was signed into law by President Andrzej Duda yesterday and will take place annually on 27 December….sounds good.
Joe Biden is celebrating the 2021 Thanksgiving long holiday weekend in a billionaire’s compound in Nantucket Massachusetts. It is NOT billionaire Donald Trump’s compound, of course. Joe Biden recently turned 79 years old, and next year’s 2022 Thanksgiving, he will be the first U.S. President to serve as an 80-year-old. Nancy Pelosi is 81 years old in 2021. Our country is being led by near 80-year-old career politicians who are all fabulously wealthy and spend their holidays with billionaires. The Swamp is NOT at all representative of the people who live in the USA. Rather, it is like a dystopian futuristic story of elitist career politicians who have enriched themselves by selling out the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family for decades-on-end. I often wonder if the Swamp will ever change for the better, but I am not holding my breath for it to happen within our lifetime.
Are you saying there is no difference between the anti American Trump 77 year old and the 79 year old Biden.Trump told Pence to break the constitution,Trump told Georgia Sec of State to find illegally by threat 11,000 votes to win Georgia.Trump conspired to overthrow the United States Goverment….America has no understanding of right and wrong.This billionaire Trump a smooth liar to 73,000,000 is the most dangerous human being to the democratic World and you dont see the difference between the two
There is a huge difference between Biden and Trump. Trump is wealthy, but wants all Americans to be free to pursue their dreams. Biden wants to limit the freedoms of Americans by getting them dependent on government handouts and not encouraging them to strive any higher than that because they won’t be able to under the far left agenda. Trump’s agenda makes Americans have limitless possibilities while Biden’s agenda wants Americans to have “lowered expectations.” Less merchandise to buy, colder homes due to high heating prices, being forced on public transportation due to expensive gasoline…that’s Biden’s America.
What part of storming the capitol building helps us all to be free to pursue our dreams? Not sure that is what he had in mind at all.
The people that stormed the capitol were not representative of the majority of Republicans and others who support Trump. That’s the false narrative that the far left is spreading, but it’s a lie. The majority of Trump supporters are peaceful and support law enforcement. That’s why we want the police and not to get rid of them. The far left wants us to believe that the majority of their supporters are not like the people that burned and looted and murdered during the summer of 2020, so the same argument would apply to Trump supporters.
The FBI was knee deep in it
Absolutely
Let find out,FBI CIA FLYNN TRUMP STONE Democrats McCarthy Senator Linsey Graham…..let find the terrorist who funded them and planned the day and who approved..1/6/2021
It’s called the FBI and Mr Epps
What about the overthrow of our democracy Pat….you always avoid 1/6/2021 when that pig Trump told the crowd to march on the capital and take their country back and then said he would go with those terrorists moron pro Russian anti American fascist….The 77 year old coward watched it on TV laughing as VP ran for his life with the secret service.
Our republic was overthrown Nov 3-4 2020.
Biden is an installed puppet of a corrupt cabal of crooks
Can you point to the part of the constitution that trump wanted to violate?
What exactly did he tell the sec in Georgia to do?
It’s not in the Constitution. It is a federal felony to interfere in a federal election like Trump did. 52 USC 20511.
Exactly how did Trump interfere?
He wanted a fair election
Trump did not interfere.
I think you are thinking of Mark Zuckerburg and the rest of the clowns. Funny how talk of the computers supplied and miscounted have stopped. I haven’t heard a peep about the so called “defamation “ cases, is that because science has proven that it did or can be hacked or manipulated?
https://youtu.be/cJD-gVBbkf0
Stop watching MSNBC it is rotting your mind. Don’t you follow the news after the talking points to see what really is happening? I will give you a hint the Russiagate was a huge lie. Votes in GA were illegal with a lot of irregularities. Your boy illegitimate Joe and the San Fran Ho can thank Biden’s long lost buddy Xi for the Wuhan flu and help in getting wealthy and the Presidency.
Wow, nothing that you put in your misogynistic and idiotic post is remotely true.
Stop reading the Gateway Pundit and listening to Mark Levin.
Get off of msnbc/cnn, follow the Durham investigation
Everything in Shirley’s post is true
FOX looped news talking points.
Funny I don’t watch Fox but you must, and you still can’t open your eyes, your brainwashing must have been very severe, sorry
What makes you think he will still be President next year?
For the 10th year in a row, Christian Center is proudly advertising the fact that in conjunction with the sheriff’s department, they use slave labor to prepare the Thanksgiving meal.
I mean I know that’s all kinds of biblical but that doesn’t make it any less ugly.
I would suggest to the board of directors that they back away from this, and consider doing a gala to raise the funds to pay people to produce this meal.
I bet the culinary students at BCC would love to make that money.
Also, the sheriff’s department continues to hold people for about 10 hours after their sentence is done, sometimes in solitary, which has been declared a form of torture by human rights groups the world over.
How is BCHC planning on making these thousands of county residents who were denied their freedom in a timely manner over the years whole again?
How soon can we expect to see releases happen at 12:01 A.M. on the day a person is to be released?
What would Andrea Harrington do?
Andrea would ask Karen, Karen will ask David.
At least we know he’d know what to do. Whatever the question is.
Right, and the only thing that was ever framed is the Constitution.
One more boiled egg monday
Tough luck buddy. If you can’t do the time Dont do the crime.
Solitary is not the only torture going on at the Berkshire County Jail. And apparently Nipples doesn’t care about that either.
Solitary today is gardening by yourself. Common Man.
I wonder if you’d feel differently about solitary gardening if you hated gardening and instead were dragged off, against your will, to the garden shed by a bunch of grubs who obstructed your breathing with restraints, and then interrogated and tortured you for hours in their grubby attempt to force you to confess to consuming toxic grub insecticide.
It’s absolutely none of her effing business. And neither her nor Alphie will ever be sheriff.
Huge kudos and thanks Dan for this site. While all of our bitching has not slowed down the malfeasance and dirty politics in Pittsfield one bit it has made many residents aware of the evils that we live with. We know who many of the dirt balls are and they know we know. We know who is taking advantage of us for their own profiteering and while we are helpless to stop it the exposure is helpful to some. Many have read the tea leaves as they are written here and have moved away to better more hopeful places. And for them you have given hope where none existed in Pittsfield. And you cannot put a price on that.
Happy Black (not sure if we can use the profit term anymore in this age of wokism) Friday to one and all. Hopefully everyone was able to enjoy good company and good food. I am also hoping(though doubting) the city leaders will wake up and start working for the citizens of Pittsfield. I hope they take down the Elm St debacle and use the pavement on all the potholes that litter the city. Or maybe lower the tax rate, make city government smaller and more responsive, out on the sidewalks talking to the people, not hiding with their select friends. By the way has anyone heard a peep from the COVID Cash Committee? Sorry for the rambling must be coming out of my food coma!
and thank YOU for the humor because ain’t nuttin gonna change in this berg while money is still king
Black is the new white! So I’m certain you can use black because its taken over everything. Just make sure you don’t wish anyone a white Christmas or a Merry Christmas, or a Happy Christmas or a Feliz Navidad, or a Mele Kalikimaka. And whatever you do don’t even mention that Dec. 25th is allegedly the birth of the baby Jesus.
Happy Hanukkah – November 28 to Dec. 6, 2021, and I am looking forward to my latkes.
They were putting in soil at that elm street project between the side walk and the road the other day. By May we should have a nice Hess weed garden there.
City still has not shoveled the sidewalks they are responsible for
Same shit different day
I got to see the nightmare on Elm street last week.
That almost tops the toilet plungers on North St and the foolish rotary on Tyler St.
Happy Belated Thanksgiving! Hope yours was pleasant and relaxing.
Instead of Turkey, the Planet smells like Dan’s been threatened with libel. But then again there has been a lot of legal action in the town of Richmond already.
But I suppose the good and great that ‘float’ up up from the sewers of the Pitts or Lee and land in Richmond don’t like to be challenged. At all. Ever. Like Linda and her spending. Oh it is a done deal that her friends will be given money they don’t deserve and shouldn’t be getting.
Linda Tyer and her admin are the reason Biden can’t pass his spending bills as no one trusts the Dems will use the money for anything other than greasing their goombas. And that will be done without scrutiny or comment from the tax payer. Except for here, so thank you Dan for keeping them if not honest, on their toes.
Biden should make it a law that cities with mayors like we have do a mandatory forensic audit.
As of now there is ZERO oversight and no one with any power wants anything to do with one. But that does send a message does it not?
Get out if you can. How long will it take for all those Covid immigrants from New York and elsewhere to find out they have purcahsed property in a money sucking hole in the ground? Hopefully soon and hopefully some of them will run for office against the Petes and the cabal they enable.
I wonder about those Escape NYC families too. I wonder if they will be more vocal for the benefit of the schools and the larger community or will they be driven to servitude like the locals.
For a lot of the people who purchased property in this part of the world — it was their worst economic life decision bar none. I hope that doesn’t continue to be true going forward.
When these wealthy New Yorker’s moved to Pittsfield en masse they gave mayor Midas Tyer one more lame reason to justify raising taxes. And she jumped on it with both feet the first chance she got. She did not care who got hurt in the process as long as the special interest coffers were enlarged.
Wouldn’t it be awesome if some of these new residents, most of whom are better educated than much of Pittsfield’s residue, decided to run for mayor or the city council and ousted the current mayor and her puppet family? We can only hope. Can we start a recruitment page?
It’s not I. Their bloodline.
You could be right. Dan may be in the cross hairs of Richmond or even higher. My posts seem to take a day to go through all the algorithms so mine must be thoroughly checked. Don’t forget we are living past 1984
In the crosshairs? Nah. Just in the hair.
KERMIT
Nope. Not threatened such. Truth can never dared in that manner. THE PLANET appreciates your presence here.
Threatened other such? Doesn’t sound like a no. Haha.
Other such? Nope. Just Truthin’.
What did they want from you Dan? What did they make you give up, to get out of the way?
Nuttin. Nuttin. That’s what.
You can’t handle the truth and neither can Kermit. Give it a rest.
You protest too much!! What are you so afraid of? I understand you want to command me to stop speaking. Ain’t gonna happen …
Nuttin. Afraid of nutting. Just want the truth, not rumor, mistruths, halftruths, lies, and innuendo and conjecture. How would you like to be accused of something you didn’t do?
Nothing to see there. Dan got to bottom of it. We’re moving on now. There were no facts to support the primary allegations.
I never had an opinion in the school bs, but what Dan reported and then dropped like a hot potato was that 7 girls conspired to frame a boy for sexual assault. I don’t recall hearing the DA called in about it.
Funny that you get really upset by people mentioning it. Lol.
There is a common opinion that authoritarian regimes control the media to prevent stories they don’t like getting out. That is why the Eagle spends good money on publishing dumb stories about a policeman and his poodle. Nothing to see here folks, move along!
Respectfully, he didn’t drop it but rather devoted 3 full columns to it, across the span of 7 or 8 days, and hundreds of comments, and as he stated in his last column on it, I something happened but not much.
Now comes DA Andrea Harrington, tagging herself among the national Soros-funded Progressive DAs.Yet even Soros wouldn’t give a dime to an incompetent like her.
The Soros rogue prosecutors movement stems from the idea that the entire criminal justice system is racist. To even the score, these DAs promote pro-criminal policies and have a list of crimes they will not prosecute. This includes drugs distribution of all drugs including fentanyl and shoplifting the likes of which we have never witnessed until now. District attorneys swear an oath to enforce the laws as signed by the governor or under federal law. Furious citizens on the west coast have asked to recall several of these DAs. Others are getting re-elected based on the false idea that crime is down. Because of course it is since police are told arresting drug dealers and shoplifters will be useless because they will be tossed out.
Andrea Harrington slithered her way into this destructive club under a false narrative, a fake set of credentials and voter mandate that never existed. I hope someone puts a stop to it and soon.
DA Andrea Harrington
@harringtonforda
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It’s thanksgiving! I am grateful for my colleagues from across the country who lift me up and inspire me to make good trouble. @DARollins @MarilynMosbyEsq @SAKimFoxx
@DanSatterberg @chesaboudin @Krasner4DA @SarahFairVT @SherryBostonDA
@GeorgeGascon @DG4DA @biberajbb
@markdegonz3
How’s the view from the cheap seats in Lanesborough?
The DA’s office in disarray with the departure of experienced prosecutors and lack of management from Harrington. Incomptence is the bigger threat here. Encourage your friends to find an alternative. Elections have consequences.
Harrington fired the experienced attorneys, kept those that turned on Paul Caccaviello. Hopefully they get fired when the next DA gets elected. Most of the ones that she hired came to their senses and left. Everyone there lives in fear. The good work of the previous administrations is threatened. Her pledge to work for victims is obviously a lie as we see in current cases. She works for herself, that’s it. Narcissist.
You seem to be in the know, Been. Can you tell us if someone is coming to save us next election? Or is she going re-elected?
I hear Bob Sullivan with Judy Knight also a possibility.
For God sakes man, how about somebody with more gravitas. But thank you.
There’s a destructive bunch
Dan, first I would like to thank you and commend you for creating and maintaining this site. If it weren’t for you us taxpayers would never ever hear or know the truth on so many issues going on in this Vibrant City. We most certainly can’t rely on the truth coming from the local newspaper media, Mayor or City Councilors. Thanks again!
The past week there has been an outside contractor in my neighborhood spray painting in bright orange a number on all the sewer curbing, if the curbing is broken or covered with weeds they spray paint the road (the orange paint nicely accents the potholes). A neighbor questioned one of the guys working and he stated that the City has a three year contract with his company to maintain the sewers!? Have a few questions. Will taxpayers ever hear what the cost of this contract is? Are the City Councilors aware of this contract? Did the contract go out to bid? But my main question is what exactly does Morales’s employees do except to ride around in brand new vehicles? If they don’t repair potholes, don’t paint lines, don’t replace knocked over or missing traffic and street signs, don’t clean up garbage in the streets, I guess their main job is ripping up streets and creating Morales bike lanes, bike lanes that screw up traffic, bike lanes that taxpayers had no voice in the installation. Morales states that road re-configurations are too slow down traffic! Why is the Pittsfield Police not working to slow down traffic? Why is a Traffic Division listed on the City website? The minimum speed limit lately in Pittsfield is 55 mph. Just think of the revenue the City could be taking in if speeders were cited. These citations could possibly put a big dent in the cost of a new police station. Hear the up and coming Morales’s mess will be Dalton Avenue, the Vibrant City’s way too slow down traffic!?
Can someone please get a video of the trucks snow plowing the new roundabout? Please? I think I will be able to go viral with it on YouTube.
And coming through this morning I thought I saw a fire hydrant about six inches from the road in the east bound lane of the roundabout. Was I dreaming?
Vaccination are a cottage industry know and are morphing into a big dig type of conglomerates ,with several new variants of the Covid nonsense that by the way should be spiking with all of the holiday get togethers..
How bout the plungers on North St? We could make a great video with cuckoo clocks going off in the background
Why can’t we use the plungers for a game of horse shoes?
West st and taconic high school were well plowed today for 7am. Do you think someone forgot school is closed this weekend
How do the plows deal with the toilet plungers on North St?
Hello Patrick Fennell,
The U.S. Stock Market dropped by around 3 percent today, black Friday, 26-November-2021. But don’t worry because the wealthy and powerful elites will always win. It is all a shell game for the elites. They move huge amounts of money around various Swamp and Wall Street computer screens to get what they want. The American People don’t count anymore. There are huge areas of the USA where there are no living wage jobs, failing public schools, rusted out infrastructure and factories, and so on. The elites give lip service to the underclass and shrinking working class at election time, but then they go home to their millionaires-only gated communities and vacation with multimillionaires and billionaires.
I read that the Swamp went on vacation this week, and then the Swamp will be in session for a few weeks before Christmas 2021, and then they will go on vacation again. Beacon Hill lawmakers are on a 7-week-long taxpayer-funded vacation until 5-January-2022. Boston left billions of dollars in state cash in limbo prior to their lengthy holiday season state legislative recess.
On Monday, 29-November-2021, the Ghislaine Maxwell federal trial in NYC will begin with opening arguments. If I were a would-be defense Attorney, I would ask who were the men the 14-year-old allegedly sex trafficked minor girls were made to perform sex acts on? I would ask about Bill Clinton’s 26 flight logs on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet? I would ask why only the woman – Ghislaine Maxwell – is being charged when the federal prosecutors are saying that the uncharged men allegedly sexually exploited the minor women? Is not that the textbook definition of SEXISM?
In the spirit of the holiday season, I like it when the ruling elites are on vacation because at least we have a little peace of mind until after the New Year.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Melle
They do always win. Like investors that come right here. Always,I repeat always, never lose. Look at Stanley?irs called the forgives clause.
Boots w/ da fur
When the looters steal a bunch of tools from Home Depot here in an organized mass theft as we are seeing elsewhere, and use them to do smash and grabs all over, what is Harrington going to do if the cops catch em?
Not much of anything. She doesn’t believe in jail for non violent crime.
She’ll give them a stern talking to.
Double secret probation
And a backpack.
Harrington just tried to give someone with 80 convictions probation. Enough with the clown show. Berkshire County needs a real DA.
Hardly anything. That’s why she is called Hardly Harrington.
Harrington has repeatedly pledged to “end the pervasive racial disparities that infect our system” and we repeatedly ask, where are those cases? No competent prosecutor would take a case to trial without some form of evidence but then Andrea Harrington is no competent prosecutor.
There should be a investigation to see if she actually has brain. When can this incompetent woman be voted out of office?
I wouldn’t worry about the Pittsfield kops catching anyone. They’re much too busy making up fake crimes and actually chasing the non existent fake crimes down. The Pittsfield kops can’t/won’t even find a crackwhore junkie actually responsible for an ongoing crimewave in Pittsfield, if you can believe that! An allegedly elusive crackwhore junkie many of the kops are well, if not intimately, acquainted with. As if she hasn’t been in the backseat of police cruisers. But the kops allegedly can’t find her. Maybe that’s were they should look for her next time they’re in the backseat of their cruisers.
While these things happen once in a blue moon, and happened here with a police lieutenant and a patrol officer back in the early 80’s or late 70’s, and happened recently here with another cop , unless you have some facts, please retract.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-police-officer-resigns-sexual-activity-department-vehicle
And here we are almost 20 hours later and City I Hate has posted no facts, just what we in the business call “naked assertions”, pun intended.
I saw the pair pop up in the back seat of a Pittsfield cruiser one night. They were parked in the field off Holmes Rd where the 4H building is now.
Training Sir!
There ain’t much in Shittsfield to smash and grab Joe.
You may not be far off, Joe. When Chesa Boudin ran for district attorney in San Franscisco he said that prostitution, open drug use and drug dealing are “victimless crimes” and that poverty leads to shoplifting and this something he would not prosecute. Now we see an increase in crime in San Franscisco that is so out of control residents are paying for private security guards, taking self-defense classes, and supporting a recall of Boudin. The past week’s mob attacks on shopping centers has reached a level that can arguably be called organized crime. This shocking situation has been fed if not created by Andrea Harrington’s collegue Chesa Boudin.
Harrington regularly thrusts herself into national issues on social media. For example, “Feeling grateful for the jury returning guilty verdicts in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.”
Now Harrington is on record on her twitter feed that Boudin is among her “colleagues from across the country who lift me up and inspire me to make good trouble.” If Harrington is inspired by this outrageous policy and resulting behavior and these district attorneys then voters in Berkshire County deserve an explanation.
Prediction: these progressive prosecutors are going to cost the Dems 2024 unless they take back their party.
Damn straight she does. And is she feeling grateful that an innocent Kyle Rittenhouse was exonerated???
We the taxpayers give $140.00 to a couple from NY city to start a brew pub in the Allagrone building. Why. Where is Wandering Stars money. He’s been brewing beer and paying taxes for 10 years. Now they will be competing with a subsides brewery. They should give the extra dollar charged to Wandering Star. He is not as connected and doesn’t care about politics, just wants to be treated fair.I personally will not give any city subsidized businesses my money. No Ace Hardware, no Hot Plate, no Bousquet . Just saying.
Well said, JOE.
Next thing you know they be lowering the 8 a beer price with free cash. That’s right, some beverages there are 5-8 bucks.
Just read the story in IBerkshires on this. The woman involved pulled out all the stops and covered all the bases with her gender, Latina, BIPOC and LBGTQCYZ crap. They will fail. Going to charge 5-8 bucks for a beer. And article never articulated terms to get the money. But hey, Ruffer likes em.
Pete White got pretty excited too.
Sweet Pete needs a cold beer every now and then. He’s been working for almost two years on the “houseless” problem.
Any updates Pete? Or did all the “work” you did on the houseless problem get lost with Handgun Helen’s police report?
MARK
Yeah, with all the work done on the “houseless” problem, can we expect a reduction in the “houseless” problem, or because of that work will the “houseless” problem intensify. The “houseless” problem is an important one, especially if you’re “houseless,” because being “houseless” is being “houseless.” Right, Pete?
He’ll drink his beer like the stooge through a straw.
Agree, it will be a all inclusive establishment. At what cost. Wandering Star is also all inclusive. Actually has a no political conversion sign above the bar. Pittsfield greasy politics will never end. We must go back to a 2 year Mayoral vote. 4 Years is way to long to let the Mayor reap her nasty progressive fungus on us.
But surely Pittsfield and the taxpayers have reaped generous monetary benefits, and continue to be monetarily rewarded , for their investment of $18 and 1/2 million dollars pissed away on all these sure winners the schitty clowncilors assured the taxpayers that these saviors were, time and time again! Also the revolting schitty clowncilors would not have approved, yet another giveaway, if these two from NY has not bought, with their own money, not ours, at least a $420,000 home next door to the BIG DUMP persip or their own $750,000 mcmansion on Pheasant Way in the city of Pittsfield. Thus actually making a real investment in schittsfield by contributing to our ever increasing property tax bills. RIGHT!
Who is this Joe fella dumpster knows.
In an unrelated story there were no known or provable kickbacks, cash or in kind, regarding any of these handouts to already wealthy business persons who did not at all need the mayoral gravy funded by taxpayers.
So if anyone was thinking that they need to cut it out right now.
He makes great beer, maybe he is less good at kissing ass.
He is an award winning beer maker (that’s what he said) the stoic woman with him did all the council banter.
Houseless with award winning beer. That sounds like a good slogan for our fair city.
I meant the Wandering Star guy.
Agree, he makes great beer. His personality is a little suspect. It’s like a good wine. Takes some time to enjoy.
Recently I attended a wedding of a close friend’s son in Pittsfield. Pretty much all of the out of town guests stayed at a downtown hotel, and it wasn’t HON. They came from Iowa, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, Seattle and South Carolina. That same weekend there was a big hockey tournament at the Pittsfield Boy’s and Girl’s Club. Many of those people stayed at the same hotel. They were from all over New York and New England. Needless to say the bar at the hotel was packed Saturday night with people from both events. The one thing that stood out from all of the friendly conversation and interaction was that the out of towners couldn’t believe the “strange” and “confusing” traffic pattern on North St. The overwhelming outcome of said conversation was that it was “one of the dumbest things” that they have ever seen and “who thought that was a good idea”. All I could say was “welcome to Tyer Town, run by Linda and Barry from their gated community mansion, where crime runs rampant, the taxes are through the roof, the justice system is falling apart and home of the world’s most famous bike path”. Talk about Pittsfield proud. Thank you Linda, Barry, DA and all the buffoons better known as the city council.
So true. I barely missed hitting one of the spikes in the road a few weeks ago. They come up fast and at night it’s even worse. They should make them glow in the dark or something.
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
The letter, below, to the Dirty Bird (Berkshire Eagle) says that Pittsfield politics is doing nothing to help the city’s homeless population. I have an idea. Use the Lovely Linda and Barry Clairmont’s million-dollar home in Pittsfield’s gated community west of Berkshire Community College within feet of the Hancock border as a homeless shelter.
The November 23rd, 2021 Pittsfield City Council raised the municipal tax rate by the predictable 5% margin, as it has increased city and school district spending by 5% every year for decades on end as the city’s tax base always shrinks with population loss, the loss of thousands of living wage jobs over the past 50 years, attrition from the older generations going in the afterlife (if such a fairy tale actually exists), and Pittsfield’s huge underclass with Pittsfield being one of the most economically unequal metro areas in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the nation.
I have an idea on how to reduce Pittsfield politics’ always predictable tax and spending hikes. Sell of the Lovely Linda’s million-dollar home and property, sell the Lovely Linda’s Lexus luxury car, and donate the millions of dollars in savings she and her multimillion-dollar CPA husband Barry Clairmont hold and use it all to lower municipal taxes and spending in Pittsfield.
If Pittsfield needs even more money to help the proverbial Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family, withdraw the many millions of dollars in Matt Kerwood’s Slush Funds and return the funds to all of the proverbial Kapanskis who have been systemically screwed over again and again over the decades by Pittsfield politics.
Pittsfield politics could use some of the Lovely Linda’s tens of millions of dollars in Biden Bucks to help the city’s homeless population. But we will never know because the Lovely Linda has (possibly illegally) shut out the public from how she will spend her Biden Bucks funds. To Hell with the state’s Open Meeting Law and the state’s Ethics Laws! The Lovely Linda is the wealthy and powerful Queen of Pittsfield politics and royalty doesn’t have to comply with the law or serve the people who must never question their administration.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
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Letter: “Homeless need help in Pittsfield”
The Berkshire Eagle, November 27, 2021
To the editor: I read in The Berkshire Eagle a summary of the Pittsfield City Council meeting which took place Nov. 23, and again no mention of what is being done to help the homeless.
Another winter with not enough shelters for the needy people. Please do something to help the homeless in Pittsfield.
Barbara A. Bizzi, Pittsfield
Love Barbara Bizzi.
How about they get a freaking job and pull their asses up by their bootstraps like I did. Hell, even if they don’t want a job there is free housing, free heat, free cooked meals, free EBT cards, free phones and if your a drug addict they even give ya free drugs.
Johnathan,
Thanks for looking out for us Kapanskis.
Mr. X, can you make that a tad more pithy and get it on a number sticker?