ENTER MARCH AND THE CAST OF ‘HEE HAW’ … COUNCIL MINUTES REVEAL MUCH
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 1, 2023) — It came in like Lippy the Lion and will go out like Hardy Har Har, thus THE PLANET speaketh of March. Now on to our Right Honorable Good Friends on the city council, now officially dubbed “the cast of ‘Her Haw'” by one of this site’s more astute commentators.
Several items stand worthy of worthy of passing comment. The first has to do with the official City Council minutes of the Jan. 24 meeting. The second with last night’s agenda.
The Minutes: Lampiasi or “The Climate Change Kid’
All words and dialog guaranteed verbatim:
- Here are the minutes when councilor Dina Lampiasi praises DPW commissioner Ricky Rumpus for his leadership during the infamous Christmas snow storm then goes on to blame the poor snow-handling on (dun dun dun) CLIMATE CHANGE!! Thus:
— “Councilor Lampiasi commended the Commissioner [DPW’s Ricky Rumpass] on the report and stated it is honest and looks to what we can do differently in the future to improve. Every year there is a storm that we get calls about. She stated that storm events have changed over time. It is about the big picture and how we move forward. … Some discuss climate change in conversation, and it is real causing unpredictable weather and we see big changes day to day. … Councilor Lampiasi said as we see [climate] change, we need to think about where we are headed. Storms in the past were very predictable and we knew what we were getting into.”
- This led to the redoubtable councilor, Charles Kronick, petitioning to post a sign on Ricky’s office door, leading to the hoe-down between Sir Charles and Miss Climate Change of 2023 (swimsuit phase):
— “A petition from Councilor Kronick requesting the council to endorse a sign to be affixed to the DPW office door stating “No New Salts! – No New Salt Equipment!” Councilor Kronick complemented Councilor Lampiasi for her deep and site full critique of his response to the snow report and she can go suck an egg. Councilor Lampiasi suggested that he grow up and told him he is a bully.”
We must repeat these immortal words from the official minutes.
— “Councilor Kronick complemented Councilor Lampiasi for her deep and site full critique of his response to the snow report and she can go suck an egg. Councilor Lampiasi suggested that he grow up and told him he is a bully.”
These hallowed syllables should be chiseled into the snow that fronts city hall — which still has three of its four doors LOCKED by order of mayor Linda Tyer to show how much she welcomes Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski into The People’s Hall to conduct their business.
- Then came the matter of councilor Karen Kalinowsky’s petition to put the North Street bike lanes on the ballot.
— “Councilor Kalinowsky stated that most constituents that she has spoken to do not like the bike lanes on North Street because they are confusing, and they avoid North Street. She alsot hinks they are dangerous. She is asking to let the constituents to tell us if they like the bike lanes or to switch it back. She would like to see this on the [November] ballot. … Councilor Warren believes people should have the right to vote on this.”
Then Peter White and Lampiasi express their confidence in We The People. Again, verbatim from the minutes:
— “Councilor White will vote aginst this as we are elected to make decisions on things before us. … Councilor Lampiasi cannot support as there are many issues we could put before the voters. This is a time of change, the upset over the lanes was immediate and the departments [sic] reaction with continued improvement took place. We have not had enough time to flush things out. To go backwards does not make sense. She supports giving voters a choice but does not think this is the way to go.”
Lampiasi saying councilors haven’t had enough to “flush things out” reminds us of other items that float, in addition to Ivory soap.
Before THE PLANET went to press, we caught the Open Mic portion of last night’s meeting. The bike Nazis got out the stormtroopers to harangue the council about (a) how special they are (b) how their safety and their pleasures are more important than any other downtown consideration and (c) how the dangerous bike lanes have made everything safer (see Orwell 1984 War is Peace, Hate is Love). Sieg Heil to the folks who got the spokes.
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Last Night’s Episode of ‘He Haw’ (Or Should It Be ‘Her Haw’?)
These minutes give you a fair enough taste of the city council as presently constituted. Last night, Our Right Honorable Good Friends met once more. THE PLANET went to press before the agenda came to light; we can only shudder at what happened. Of particular interest were agenda items 4, 10, 16, and 20.
- #4: Mayor Flat gave an update on dishing out of the greasy (and [barely] legal) handouts, paybacks, kickbacks, and bribes, otherwise known as the ARPA funds.
- #10: Tyer’s petition regarding the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) office. THE PLANET and every other person who truly believes in civil and social equity should abhor this monolithic, exclusive, and racist office. No. 10’s a doozy. Flat wants to “establish a policy for additional compensation to specific City employees to serve as DEI Ambassadors.” SPECIFIC city employees. Hmmmm. No favorites there. The Chosen Ones will be getting an extra $200 a month ($2,400 yearly) to be ambassadors for racist, sexist, gender-ist politics. Great.
- #16: An update, and possibly a vote, on Kalinowsky’s bike-lane referendum. Justice demands that it pass.
- #20: Kronick’s petition to use Chap. 90 money to repair and repave 10 war-ravaged city streets.
- Third Street
- Delaware Ave
- Rhode Island
- Virginia Ave
- Tyler Street Extension
- Maryland Ave – with curbs to direct flow to distant drains
- Yorkshire Ave – curbs only
- California Ave
- Brown Street (sections)
- Kensington Ave
———- ooo ———-
THE PLANET calls on renewed interest, more fervent activism, and greater involvement by citizens in THEIR government throughout this campaign season. Tell ’em then show ’em who’s boss. Without it, remember that the skunks will simply keep on skunking you.
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“I said the name of the place is ‘I Like It Like That‘” — Mike Smith.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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These corrupt people are like children. Once they get away with it, they just can’t keep that hand out of the “cookie jar”!!!
The Gman has always worked and endorsed greater citizen participation at all CC MEETINGS. He holds the record of being the most prolific speaker in the public session at the begining of all CC meetings. It is refreshing that Dan is also calling for greater citizen participation at all CC meetings. The Gman has attended just about every CC meeting for the past 7 years and on many occasisons he was only one or two people who spoke at the CC meeting. The Gman has taken the bull by the horns and is now in direct talks with the two regulatory agencies the EPA and DEP and will soon have information that he hopes will please the Kapanskis greatly. The Gman is on the move and he hopes that between Dan and him they get more participation by the Kapanskis at CC MEETINGS. The greatest thing that can happen in pittsfield is to send 7 councilors packing in November election. A new day in pittsfield is coming. Amen
Thank god marchetti and Sherman are self eliminating (no word on Peabody) maybe a few more will take a powder.
love it Sir Charles is definitely worth his salt
Here’s my take on the few who spoke at open Mike,promoting the current bike traffic. They’re in the minority,period. I thought I heard weeks ago a vote was to turn this back to four lanes,period? A vote.
Seems like these Councilors can accept a vote anymore. How many times for instance has the trash issue been voted down? Yet White wants to revisit it at nauseum? The taxpayers don’t want the Toter System,they’ve spoken.
If you read between the lines of the revised charter it specifically states that IF a vote goes against the wishes of the special interests it shall be null and void. IF it goes in favor of the wishes of the special interests it shall be accepted and cherished and become forever law.
That Russo guy is an annoying twerp.
In WAY over his head. He has been a sneaky (fully paid) part of the destruction of downtown, i.e., the bike lanes. Then he floats the idea of a roundabout near West Street and College Way. Anything for his 15 minutes and 15 pieces of silver.
Ward three four-five and six should be embarrassed. Not to mention a couple – three at large.
THE PLANET agrees, RK.
Pittsfield politics:
* Level 5 public schools
* Top 10 city in Massachusetts for violent crime
* Record-breaking high municipal budgets and fees
* Hundreds of millions of dollars in municipal debts and unfunded liabilities that “Kufflinks” will pay off by winning the Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots!
* GE’s PCBs and the city’s cancer cluster neighborhoods, the leaky landfill that abuts Allendale Elementary School, and the useless politicians do nothing about it all
* 24.5-year-old Polluted PEDA debacle with millions of dollars in always growing larger unfunded liabilities that will be paid off by Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski
* 50 years of significant losses in population and living wage jobs
* Distressed and very unequal economy with little to no living wage jobs
* High per capita teen pregnancies, welfare, disability and social services caseloads
* Homelessness crisis, the “Ring of Poverty” inner-city neighborhoods that surround North Street’s two dozen empty storefronts, the over 1,000 gang members who live in the inner-city, drugs, prostitution, crime, daily shootings….
* One political (Democratic) party corruption
* The use of retribution and fear by the Godfather movies-like 4 families who have run Pittsfield into the ditch since the mid-1960s
* The aforementioned 4 families living in places like Naples, Florida (Jimmy Ruberto), Boston (Nuciforo), Gated Community land (Linda Tyer), and elsewhere while “Rome continues to burn”
* Luciforo’s Pot Kingdom on Dalton Avenue stinking up nearby neighborhoods with his pot growing building’s smells
* The city and the low- to moderate-income people who live in Pittsfield being mocked by the elitist snobs on Beacon Hill’s inequitable (voluntary) regressive taxation schemes such as the state lottery SCAM that really serves to enrich the financial, corporate and ruling elites at the public trough in Boston
* The opioid overdose crisis, substance abuse crisis, mental health crisis, and the police shooting young men in crises and then issuing CYA reports that the deceased were not a person in distressed under the law and Pigs have wings and fly all around the city
* A distinguished Elected Official resigning from the School Committee in protest, appointed board members resigning from city committees in protest, and residents speaking at open mic in protest, while Pittsfield’s downward spiral continues….
* Upscale art galleries and museums in London, NYC and L.A. hosting art exhibits with large photos of Pittsfield, Massachusetts that are titled: “Pittsfield: A City in Decay”. So much for Jimmy Ruberto’s Renaissance, as well as his Rolodex that can be found on the bottom of Silver Lake!
* Pittsfield State Representative Tricia Farley-Bouvier saying that her number one priority in 2023 – 2024 on Beacon Hill is to decriminalize sex work. Happy Endings Massage Parlors are just what Pittsfield needs to stimulate people into spending their money in Pittsfield’s depressed economy! What’s the difference between a politician and a prostitute? The prostitute takes her hands out of your pocket after you run out of money, while the politician doesn’t even after you become a memory.
Jonathan A. Melle
fyi you missed the memo you are limited to 50 word posts
The Planet is now the new home of “Jonathan Melle on Politics” Dan should either word limit his posts or charge him rent
The same crap post after post, we know all this crap already.
Dog is man’s best friend. Jon is known around town as a man’s best lover. Politics & men could life be better.
Outside of a dog a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
This is a point most fine.
Rules are not rules unless they are enforced.
I don’t know sometimes he hits the mark and reminds people of how bad the government of this city has been and continues to be, This list could continue for many pages!
Jon, in case you have’nt heard, less is more.
My head was ready to explode watching last night’s council meeting. It felt like we were watching a law school court case. And what is the protocol if a city councilor cannot meet their responsibilities? Mr. Maffuccio has been out for months, leading me to believe something medical is going on. While I don’t wish ill will on him, it seems unfair that the people in his ward have no representation.
Well, JM certainly got his way!
Third St needs to be bulldozed into Silver Lake.
I’m trying to guess who has a bone to pick with Third Street.
Lampiasi and Kavey should be totally ridiculed and mocked for their ridiculous argument about “climate change” (formerly known as global warming) being a factor in the DPW’s failure during the Christmas snowstorm.
Did the DEI extra pay to special employees petition from Mayor Tyer pass? The DEI should be abolished as it is racist. States across the nation are ditching these sort of racist government bodies. Shame on the mayor for this outrageous petition!
I agree 100% with chatty cathy
I agree. Hope Lampiasi s real job does not involve anything important if that is the way her brain works. Just plain ignorant. Sadly some of her cohorts ain’t so bright either. I mean, if they are they hide it well when on the dais. But then again that is how you look when you try to promote ignorant special interest goals that make no sense in the first place.
Dan, have you got a trophy category for most ignorant city council statements?
I think when DL said the councilors will have blood on their hands if they approve the ballot question is pretty good one.
PFH
She actually said that? Good heavens, man … it’s worse than we thought. Demagoguery + Dumb be a dangerous combination.
Actually, demagoguery + dumb is better than demag. + smart.
““There’s a possibility of returning to a situation of death,” Lampiasi said. “Somebody just died on West Street and we’re actually debating whether or not to have more people die on North Street. This is ridiculous.”.”
-Dina Lampiasi
Yep, that’s about as dumb as it gets.
That’s Trophy material.
Can you imagine how embarrassed their families must be?
SNARK
Based on Dina’s statement, we just may institute that trophy, the MICS (Most Ignorant Council Statement).
That, and it still isn’t nice to dance on people’s graves. That pedestrian didn’t volunteer her life for Dina’s reelection talking points.
Ever notice snide looks to Kronick? And almost everything Karen she’s against?
snide?
I’ve noticed. Really unprofessional and disrespectful. You don’t have to agree with what is being said but you also don’t have to be a jerk about it. Can also hear the councilors whispering to each other. Have they forgotten that their mics are live?
It’s at least training me to tune out distractions.
DEI is nothing more than left-wing pandering!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11724079/Goodbye-anti-bias-training-DEI-teams-axed-diversity-RECKONING.html
Any chance the city council could bring DIE’s leader OB into a meeting and let him explain to the taxpayers what he and his department have done to correct and improve what the city’s Personnel Department wasn’t doing to necessitate a duplication of taxpayer services.
Spreading left-wing agenda that a baby buck can somehow mysteriously identify as a doe, if said buck still has HIS antler, is not a bang for my buck of taxpayer services-no pun intended.
I’d like to see Dina Thompson-Horton-Smith-Lipshitz-Guiel’s scientific credentials to espouse her “climate change” garbage at an official government meeting.
News to you sugarcakes, a bike lane or three will not help “climate change,” as long as China and India pollute the Earth like they do.
Dina da dunce watches Rachel Maddow for her in depth scientific knowledge
For the fragile white egos:
https://www.cityofpittsfield.org/departments/archive.php
The information isn’t hard to find if you look. Let’s knock off the fake outrage.
I hope that someone in ward four runs for that council seat and wins. Conant is useless.
4 5 6 @large. Just got the poem book by Dan. I actually did.
Has anyone pointed out that people ride bikes all over Pittsfield, successfully sharing the road with other traffic and no one ever dies? Ironically, North Street is probably the one street where you barely seen any bicycle traffic. Everybody rides down First Street anyway.
If increased commerce is the goal on north street encouraging anything except motor vehicles and pedestrians is counterproductive and dangerous. There is no need to encourage Scooters or bicycles. Shoppers do not travel to stores on these vehicles. Who goes to buy groceries on a bike or scooter? Who goes to Carr Hardware to buy a few gallons of paint on a scooter or bike? Maybe you want to get good and sweaty and park your bike in front of Steven Valenti’s and try on a new suit. Sorry kids if you want to ride around in your little spandex costume and pretend you’re competing in the Tour de France you don’t need to ride on north street. First street or Center st would be much safer . On north street you’re just in the way and a danger to yourself and others. Keep north street safe. Go play somewhere else.
Re: Billionaire John Forbes Kerry is a phony!
The Boston Globe published several letters to the editor today (March 1, 2023) from people praising John Kerry’s role as Joe Biden’s climate envoy to fight global warming. Two years ago, billionaire John Forbes Kerry owned millions of dollars in his personal investments in the oil and gas industry. The White House made John Kerry sell off his greenhouse gas investments so that he could serve as Joe Biden’s chief propaganda minister for the Democrat’s Green New Deal lies. On July 15, 2022, Joe Biden went to Saudi Arabia and fist-bumped MBS on the world stage. Where was John Kerry on that one? Twenty years ago, John Kerry and Joe Biden, as well as Hillary Clinton, voted for Bush 2’s invasion of Iraq for its second largest oil reserves in the world second only to Saudi Arabia. Then there are the facts that the Pentagon is the number one polluter of global warming gases in the world, and the U.S.A. is the number two polluter of global warming gases in the world second only to China. Combined, China and the U.S.A., which both have huge military industrial complexes, account for a little less than 50 percent of the world’s global warming emissions. Lastly, please don’t get me started on Ed Markey being in GE’s pocket with the U.S. Senator from Chevy Chase, Maryland (not Massachusetts) supporting GE’s proposal to put a toxic waste – leaky landfill – capped dump inside of a watershed in the polluted Housatonic River that is above the October Mountain aquifer. Ed Markey’s support for the Green New Deal is nothing but more HOT AIR. The Democrats, especially billionaire John Forbes Kerry, are phonies on climate change!
Jonathan A. Melle
I thought you wanted Dan to write exclusively on Pittsfield.
And where were your uncles when John Kerry was fighting in VN?
Wannabee mayoral candidate Pete Marchetti presided over another council meeting run amuck last night. No one in the audience knew what was going on and several councilors admitted they were clueless as well. If Pete could not clarify a simple referendum vote so that people could understand it it…HOW IN THE HELL COULD HE BE AN EFFECTIVE MAYOR????
He even got a vote count wrong. No, Pete we don’t think your a smart guy.
The opposite of a smart feller.
Krol is in full gear to run for mayor this upcoming election. Marchetti does not stand a change and I fear if a real candidate does not step up soon we will be stuck with Mr Podcast. He will promise transparency and accountability but we all know that wont happen.
Pittsfield is a full-blown idiocracy.
Get out while you can.
Hampton County is much more rational.
Krol is Tyer 2.0 – he will be the nail in the coffin of Pittsfield – a guy who can’t hold a job in the public sector, and is clueless when it comes to finances. Don’t be fooled by this clown.
Krol can sit back in one of those Beacon seats with the mayor and relax. Marchetti is handing this election to him on a silver platter.
I doubt his heart is truly into it
His Dukakis in a tank moment.
Krol should not be mayor. He bought the BS that Andrea Harrington was selling and championed her right into the office of chief law enforcement in Berkshire County. Her refusal to prosecute guilty people was a disaster that we are still reeling from. Case in point thieves smashing and grabbing and drug dealers targeting our communities in the paper every day. He wasn’t alone but for reasons we will probably never know Krol thought Andrea Harrington’s illogical criminal justice policies and total incompetence was a good idea. What other stupid schemes will he fall for?
I’m pretty sure we can all figure out why Loverboy Krol supported Wrong Way. The way most of us approach a fulltime job in the public sector, Krol takes that same approach to chasing tail. Being successful in the public sector is something Krol knows nada about.
If you want to find the real truth about the integrity and character of Krol, just ask his ex-wife.
An ex-wife’s take on her former spouse is even-handed I’m sure.
Probably not. She was at home being a mother, while he was playing bury his snake in strange.
You don’t think she earned it?
Roadway Definition: Roadway means the paved portion of the street that is used exclusively for the passage of motorized vehicles. Roadway means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel.
I am neither flabbergasted nor confused about the intended purpose of roadways. I am also not confused as to the intent of Kalinowsky attempt to allow the voters/the taxpayers, especially the taxpayers who are ripped off every year when they pay their Motor Vehicle Excise TAX, a voice about the configuration of roadways in Pittsfield. This money goes directly to the city, and then the city can use it for any goddamn thing they want. The city of Pittsfield can use my Motor Vehicle Excise Tax money to buy the Beacon Theater new plush lounge seats. Or the city of Pittsfield could divert my Motor Vehicle Excise Tax money to fund a bicycle Pump Park, or Pickle Ball courts or the city can piss my Motor Vehicle Excise Tax money away on Fireworks in the Common on one of the coldest nights of the year.
Every motorist in the city of Pittsfield knows that the city is not using their Motor Vehicle Excise Tax to fix the crummy dangerous potholed roadways for the safety of the motorists, which could result in lessening the extent of damage caused to their $45,000 to $60,000 vehicles by Pittsfield’s unsafe roads full of potholes. I wish Kronic and Kalinowsky would petition the city to impose a bicycle tax on the bicyclists screaming that they are entitled to safe bicycle passage when motorists who get ripped off every year with their Motor Vehicle Excise Tax bills are relegated to dodging crater-like potholes and assholes on bicycles/scooters/wheelchairs. Bicyclists’ crybabies should be required to pay a flat rate of $100 a year for the use of Pittsfield’s roadways. Bicyclists would then have to display a sticker on their bicycles to prove that they are in compliance. If a bicyclist has not paid his yearly bicycle tax, his/hers/its bicycle will be confiscated until said tax is paid in full. When the tax has been paid the bicyclist scofflaws can retrieve their bicycles once they’ve paid the storage fees. This way the bicyclists who are demanding priority use of Pittsfield’s roadways will be contributing, because why should bicyclists get free use of paved Roadways that are exclusively intended for motorized vehicles owned by people who get ripped off every year with a Motor Vehicle Excise Tax.
Excellent idea!! I agree if the city is spending money on the roads for bicyclist then they should pay a road improvement tax. They should also have to show they have insurance and a registration as well. I have seen many yards with dug up yards due to bikes riding over them continuously. The bikes should also have to pay $35 for a yearly inspection!!
When was the last time there was a fatal accident on North Street involving a motor vehicle and a pedestrian?
All I can remember is the current one on West St and the Director of United Way running over a poor soul on East Housatonic St. It’s still confusing why the councilors are drawing their line in the sand on this North St bike lane that goes no where! Rush use to always say follow the money, so who is benefitting and who is the money man?
Hazzard and Calamari. Two names that will remain hard to forget.
Hazzard reportedly ran him down, and swoop, swoosh, it got swept under the rug and her case was quietly dismissed.
I agree with you on the money thing. What’s the pattern?
It may or may not have happened recently but with all the media scrubbing going on locally it would not have come out anyway. Even the scanner has been dumbed down. Both dept heads and their employees have been told to keep a tight lip.
I don’t know about North Street, but Dumpster Earl’s knife wielding road raging sister intentionally ran some guy down on Center Street. Maybe that explains the BIG DUMP Earl’s Black Flight from his Kunta Kinte ghetto roots. Of course, the BIG DUMP does drag out his People Who Look Like Him Racist Race Cards when it suits him. Apparently, there was nothing for him to gain in the death of one of his people who look like him in the West Street tragedy.
No bail for Pittsfield woman who allegedly struck man with her car intentionally – November 17, 2014
A Pittsfield woman police say intentionally struck a man in a crosswalk with her car has been held without bail. Edwards-Persip was grinning as she swerved her vehicle in the direction of the man she intentionally struck with her vehicle.
Hello Blogger Dan Valenti,
I love reading your blog, especially when you write about Pittsfield politics. I understand that my post about Pittsfield politics was lengthy today, but I wanted to point out how the city is failing the people who live there – our native hometown.
Thanks for clarifying that issue.
I’d like to point out that your political faves, Dementia Joe Biden and John Climate Czar Kerry are both disasters and are failing the American people. I’d like to point out that the guy you voted for, Joe Biden, is leading us into World War III. Your hero John Kerry is busy leaving his large carbon footprint all over the world while trying to rid Americans of their oil furnaces, private vehicles and gas stoves.
No wonder you want Dan to focus on local politics!
Get a clue man!
Try being a positive force in your own NH community instead of repeating the same tired crap about Pittsfield on this blog!
Ok, now that I got the ROADWAY issue out of my system, for now, I’d like to address the issue that’s really been gnawing at me today. It involves one of my most hated subjects, the Pittsfield KOPS! A year or so ago, I remember watching a Licensing board meeting. The issue before the licensing board involved a Redacted Police Report about an incident that allegedly happened at Chili’s. Licensing Board members voiced their concerns with an issue over whether or not a customer was already drunk when he arrived at Chili’s, and despite allegedly already being drunk when he arrived, he was allegedly served more alcohol. Allegations also involved some type of confrontation in the restaurant/bar. Board members voiced their concerns over the issue of redacted police report[s], which allegedly impeded the board from making an informed decision.
Obviously, it’s corrupt business as usual with the corrupt PPD.
Pittsfield Licensing Unhappy with Heavily Redacted Reports / Tuesday, February 28, 2023 – iBerkshires.com
For what reason were the police reports redacted ? Who is entitled to that level of confidentiality? It doesn’t work that way.
Normally you show up to court (albeit this is not court) and the police report is incomplete and there are no officers to testify, the case either goes on the merits of what’s present or dismissed if the judge believes a case cannot be presented.
Courts do not spontaneously bend to the whims of police, defendents, or prosecutors. Maybe the defense in this case is correct that the investigation should be settled that evening.
I believe the order for redacted police reports comes from Pittsfield’s corrupt acting chief Wynn.
I have made several requests for police reports concerning police misconduct in the form of harassment. In this incident I provided the PPD with the date, time, location and the nasty harassing police officer’s name. To date the PPD has denied every one of my requests for the reports.
Several years ago, a Pittsfield police officer damaged a vehicle I owned. I summitted a claim to the city of Pittsfield for the damage. I provided the city’s insurer with the date, time, location and the identifying number on the Pittsfield police vehicle. I received a letter from the city’s insurer requesting the name of the police officer who was driving the Pittsfield Police vehicle when he damaged my property. I went to the police department traffic division and requested the officer’s name. At this time, I still had not received the report I requested and paid for and was told at that the delay in my receiving the information/report I requested may have been due to the police officer being off duty for a few days. This went on for some time. I continued to have contact with the city’s insurer and suggested that they request the information on the officer’s identity and police report the cop never filed after damaging a vehicle I owned. After a year of being denied the report, I requested and paid for, I received a letter from the city’s insurer that my claim was denied for insufficient information. In answer to your question, Corrupt Cops are entitled to that level of corrupt confidentiality. And it does work that way.
Maybe you should ask Persip for help?
The science tells us bikes are dangerous.
https://www.cdc.gov/transportationsafety/bicycle/index.html
Cycling has been associated with genital numbness, priapism, infertility, elevated PSA, erectile dysfunction (ED), lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), and prostatitis. While cycling doesn’t directly cause prostate cancer, it can increase your risk of inflammation. This, in turn, may increase your risk for prostate cancer or other conditions such as prostatitis. On the positive side, these numbnuts shouldn’t be procreating anyway.
But for these diehard numbnuts who won’t be denied their god given right to genital numbness and erectile dysfunction, the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail offers 14.2 miles of scenic beauty from Pittsfield to North Adams, MA. The paved trails lead through the natural beauty of 5 communities of woods, reservoirs and rivers. The bicyclist numbnuts can take public transportation to Allendale and hop on the trail and ride to their heart’s desire.
Several members of the city council took pledges on the phone at the last priapism telethon over in Albany
They certainly do have a persistent dysfunctional hard-on in their aberrant quest to afflict the taxpayers with an unrelenting perverse pain in the area of the perineum.
For the female bicyclist numbnuts, the commonest problems are chaffing, saddle sores, skin sensitivity and numbness, labial enlargement, vaginal irritation and infection (thrush and bacterial vaginosis), skin infections and urinary tract infections. As appealing as labial enlargement and bacterial vaginosis, thin gray, white or green vaginal discharge, foul-smelling “fishy” vaginal odor, vaginal itching may be to the female bicyclist, its beyond my comprehension.
Easy……..Rider
I wish you didn’t write this.
Isn’t that fruitcake that drives into traffic a friend of yours?
If you’re referring to the one who rides around the city just barely shy of naked, I can’t say that we’re friends, as I’ve never invited her to my home for dinner, at most I bought her a couple of coffees at Cumby’s. However, she did confide in me a very bizarre story about a cop with a little shriveled pecker and what he wanted to do to her with it. Fruitcake or not, she was able to recognize the cop’s delusions of grandeur, and she said declined the offer.
Another finely pointed point!
So are people driving cars. What is your point.
Open the cdc link and look at the scientific data
People riding bikes fall off for the stupidest reasons and wind up de-braining themselves. That’s the point.
Yeah but they don’t want to go backwards? F U councilor
Ward 6 went backwards when they elected her. Maybe she’ll get the same treatment as her mentor squeaky. Send her packing.
Massachusetts made the top 5, of course no mention that how these states are managed has something to do with it…
https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/states-move-to-from/
Thank you for posting that article Free Bird. The Democrat dingbats in state government passed the millionaires tax which will drive more business owners and residents out of the state. We are called Taxachusetts for a reason. And with reps like Trisha and her desire to legislate more taxes while giving undeserved privileges & benefits to illegal aliens – who could blame people for moving out of here?
Florida is looking pretty good right now, wouldn’t you agree?
Too many Floridians there.
Florida is likely the best managed state in the country. It might be the only state with clean elections. It wasn’t always that way, it took a grass roots movement to change things.
So far today a rolling blog. Now that’s the Dan I know!!!!!
Florida, I assure you, is NOT the best governed state. It is a mafia mecca.
5. Massachusetts (from Forbes article)Several publications list retirement and work motives as the reasons behind Massachusetts’ population decline. The state realized a net loss of 15,489 households last year. Recent history shows strong GDP growth and a robust economy. Yet, similar to its neighboring states, the recent push towards remote work allows families to leave high-density population areas and choose more suburban lifestyles beyond the state’s borders.
No way to tell how many are from Pittsfield because of the high immigration offsetting losses. Not to mention a city census that is not likely any where near accurate.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY – wiki
It exists today only as a historical geographic region, and has no county government, with the exception of the retirement board for former county workers, and certain offices such as the sheriff and registry of deeds.
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Of the fourteen Massachusetts counties, Berkshire County is one of eight that exists today only as a historical geographic region; it has limited county government. Berkshire County government was abolished effective July 1, 2000. Most former county functions were assumed by state agencies, and there is no county council or commission.[5] The sheriff became a Commonwealth employee, but remains locally elected to perform duties within the county region and retains administrative and operational control over the Berkshire Sheriff’s Office, an independent state agency created after the county government was abolished. The Berkshire Sheriff’s Office runs the county jail and house of correction.[5]
Local communities were granted the right to form their own regional compacts for sharing services, and the towns of Berkshire County have formed such a regional compact known as the
***Berkshire Regional Planning Commission***
Berkshire County has three Registry of Deeds Districts…
This is chilling….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/update-biden-regime-confirms-commitment-to-legally-binding-agreement-which-will-surrender-u-s-pandemic-authority-to-chinese-backed-world-health-organization-for-generations-to-come/
Only one thing will make pittsfield a better place and that is if everyone votes and sends the 7 miscreant councilors packing. Words have failed to move these sob’s now its time for action. Get your fanny’s out the door and exercise your God given rights
Let’s hope for good Council candidates
So horrible. Further proof that Biden is in bed with China.
High brow John Kerry went on a rant about climate change today. He will unfortunately be kept on as Biden’s climate czar. He says the Inflation Reduction act is the single greatest piece of legislation in history, but Kerry called it the Climate Act, as if we didn’t know that’s what it is, but Kerry let it slip. It’s so great because Kerry gets a big chunk of it for himself to do with as he pleases and even give himself a whopping raise to celebrate its passage. It’s not enough he is married to a ketchup heiress who nobody ever sees, but Kerry wants more money for his globe trotting adventures.