HUMAN REMAINS FOUND, IDENTIFIED … HOPELESSLY UNNECESSARY DPI CONDUCTS ANNUAL MEETING: A SHELL OF ITS FORMER SHELL
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
ADD 1 5/17 10:05 a.m. — THE PLANET shares this notice from the Pittsfield Police Department:
In July 2022 members of the Pittsfield Police Department (PPD) began searching for 69 year old Lee Walter Meisenheimer who was reported missing. Meisenheimer lived alone and did not have any close relatives so his last known sighting could not be confirmed. Officers and Investigators searched Meisenheimer’s home, property, and surrounding areas with negative results. The subsequent investigation involved the use of police K9s and searches of the surrounding neighborhoods. Investigators conducted interviews, reviewed video surveillance footage, and examined Meisenheimer’s financial accounts but no pertinent information was gleaned from those efforts. Meisenheimer’s information was entered into NCIC, a nationwide law enforcement database and other neighboring law enforcement agencies were asked to be on the lookout for him.
On Sunday May 14th 2023 at approximately 6:25pm, PPD officers responded to the area of Morningview Drive in Pittsfield. A resident there called after the discovery of apparent human remains and clothing in a wooded area behind a yard. Responding officers confirmed the presence of human remains and contacted personnel from the State Medical Examiner’s Office. A subsequent autopsy positively identified the remains as Meisenheimer, and extended family members were notified. At this time there is no evidence to suggest foul play, and the cause and manner of death are pending. If you have any information regarding this case, please contact the PPD Detective Bureau at 413-448-9705. Information can also be left on the Detective Bureau Tip Line at 413-448-9706, or by texting PITTIP and your message to TIP411 (847411).
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(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MAY 17, 2023) — There was so much back-slapping that one might have thought it was the annual convention of Those in Need of the Heimlich Maneuver (TIN HE MAN).
It wasn’t, but there was a lot of coughing up.
Turns out that on Thursday (May 11), the Colonial Theater hosted an orgy of verbal vomit. The occasion? Are you sitting down? THE PLANET had a spy in the room, from whose coded notes we compile this completely objective and totally unbiased report.
On that day, Downtown Pittsfield Inc. (DPI) conducted its annual meeting. Twice a day a broken clock is correct. Once a year, this useless organization comes together as a dead body to tell themselves what a great job they did the previous year, when they were also dead. Downtown Pittsfield Inc. is Pittsfield’s version of the Zombie Apocalypse.
And before we venture further into these uncharted wastes, let THE PLANET honor the volunteers who do the downtown flowers. They deliver 5-star service. Give them the DPI budget and get rid of everybody else. The flower people are the true DPI heroes.
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Rebecca Brien, DPI managing director, saw her nose grow by 7.71 inches when she said: “As I was preparing for this meeting, it occurred to me that I am regularly asked ‘Why do you do so much?’ [THE PLANET‘s emphasis] and after thinking about it I realized it’s not me, it’s us.”
So much what, exactly. Bullshitting?
No, Rachel, it’s about you.
It’s about how you have continued an office that milks taxpayers.
“What a year this has been,” she said. Truth, there.
Highlights included:
- A 1,778% increase in panhandling.
- Drug trafficking up by more than 4000%.
- Huge increase in shouting schizophrenics.
- Large uptick in fertilization of sidewalks from human defecation.
- Gang members doing a magnificent job keeping shoppers and tourists away.
- More confused motorists baffled by street markings.
- A huge influx of litter and trash, especially needles, syringes, tourniquets, butts, discarded lottery tickets, fast-food wrappers, loogies, and empties.
- Downtown cleanups to make great photo-ops for social service agencies and banks.
- Holiday celebrations, including National Cluelessness Day.
- Welcoming downtown business that folded (Mission Tapas, Flat Burger etc.) or moved to greener pastures (Elle Day Spa, Stohr Jewelers etc.).
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Brien told her biggest whopper when she said the Beacon Cinema would receive 179,000 filmgoers this year. Her schnozzola grew so big it crossed South Street, entered the Onota Building on North, rang for the elevator, and broke into one of the apartments, a space where the great Dr. Charles Volk had his dental practice.
Brien was joined in the Fib-A-Thon by DPI board president Branden Huldeen. He promised the entire downtown will be “reborn and new.” He left out the “when.” Maybe “in the Year 2525, if man is still alive.” Ask Zager and Evans.
DPI lauded the urgent work of updating of its mission statement. Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski can now sleep peacefully at night knowing that it took a full year to develop it. DPI, like the White House press secretary who said a couple days ago that “hope is an action,” believes in WORDS. Lots of them, a Wahconah Falls of blah blah blahs.
Agent Z-824 noted that the meeting also put the spotlight on the Berkshire Black Economic Council (BBEC). Taking advantage of the Colonial’s amazing theatrical capacities, the BBEC dazzled gatherers with a blackface rendition of Al Jolson’s “Goin’ to Heaven on a Missouri Mule.” BBEC distributed free commemorative corks to attendees.
“All of this is possible by having the conversations, by sharing our ideas, by getting involved, participating, collaborating,” Brien said. “And by working together, we can create a downtown Pittsfield that is truly the vibrant and bustling district we all know it can be.”
VIBRANT!!!!!!!!
She actually said it!!!!!!
In closing, THE PLANET invites DPI to pen the counter version of our report. If we receive it by Thursday at 7 p.m., we shall run it as The Weekend Edition. We hope they take advantage and take us into the boards!
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LOVE TO ALL.
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You’re a poet, & ya know it.
If you could harness Pittsfield political bullshit Into a product we all would be billionaires Doesn’t people like Brien have a clue this isn’t our first rodeo. And wait until the budget hearings. Or don’t wait. It WILL be the same old bullshit. I can hear Marchetti already in that dull voice, Vote 8 to 3 approved.
“If you could harness Pittsfield political bullshit Into a product…….”
It would be like Mad Max beyond the thunderdome, enough methane for energy independence.
Imagine what Pittsfield’s $ deficit would be if we had a yearly tax on all the hyperbole.
Is there a logical reason that woman had to initiate so many mega million dollar sports venue related projects during her term? Waconah Park, Pickle Ball courts, Springside bike pump track whatever, Springside pond, Springside House, Pontoosuc Lake reinvention, dog walking park, refurbish of bike ramp area near PHS etc???
All of this had to be done now, on her watch while inflation is out of control? None of this could have been done in moderation so that the taxes did not have to increase so dramatically? How much debt has been added to the city? Which banks will be collecting the interest on the loans? And why was there no concern from the city council president? Was he paying attention AT ALL? Should he not care about such things?
So the next mayor will be left with the deteriorating roads to fix. Maybe paint some lines on them? We gots bicycle lanes for safety but no painted crosswalks or lines in the roads? Where is the logic in that? What a sham this mayor is. Just pathetic .
She is legacy building instead of city building. Wants to steal all the Kapanski’s money to make sure she can have her name on placards throughout the city. Unfortunately there is no cure for narcisistic personalities nor psychopaths. Guess Pittsfield gets whomever the Democrats want and then Pittsfield pays for it
Maybe a statue of her in park square is what she is hoping for? If they do put one of her there it should be one with her holding a empty open wallet with Kapanski’s stamped on it and the words,” I did this “.
Good point Optimus, but hyperbole in the Pitt pales in comparison to Pat’s exaggeration, Trapper’s abstrusity, Dan-O’s MAGAity, ShirleyKnut‘s trailer trash, Markus’ anti-color, CIH’s passive aggression or PFH’s distance from Mother Earth. These siloed diatribes may vent the frustration of those who rightly feel cheated, but really don’t contribute to any greater good that I can make out.
Please explain my “anti-color,” please.
I usually provide links (facts) to back up my posts. Not just post my opinion, like TSC.
And if “anti-color,” is because I don’t enjoy my tax money going for family and friend’s African trips, almost a million dollars to a non-existent black company to start up black companies, or unnecessary departments (DEI) that duplicate an already provided city service (federal hiring laws already in place), then sign me up.
Here’s your opportunity Mr. Worldwide, errr, I mean Barry, errr, I mean Kindergarden, to back up your BS. Show me I’m wrong.
Sorry, anti-colored.
Well, I kind of like this.
“Trapper’s abstrusity”
abstrusity
noun
This is rich coming from the guy who HAD to go to the city clerk’s office on election night his wife was running in.
Did email not work? A screenshot/text couldn’t have taken care of this task? A phone call? Or maybe, just maybe, someone else goes in Barry’s place and takes away the illusion of impropriety.
A$$clown-(noun):
An idiot, or person lacking intelligence, such as a guy who walks a convenience store parking lot at 3AM on a frigid, cold, Sunday night, and declares the city “safe.” Also known as (AKA) Pittsfield’s Toughest Vigilante, Barry Clairmont.
Sorry, obtuseness.
I believe I made a mistake about you K. Your lack of response with any factual information that I asked for, tells me I struck a nerve with another person. Not DB. Especially a person who has taken offense to my past posts.
If I were rolling dice, a couple that might pop-up would-be OB of the DIE Office or AJ of BBEC. You two have been a target of my posts, because I see both of the taxpayer money sent your way as a huge waste.
Nothing to do with race. I simply disagree with these policies.
If you disagree, please post results of your successes.
I know the City of Pittsfield has not been sued in the last decade for discriminatory hiring practices. Is this not true? Why the need for a duplication of services?
I also know that the BBEC was notoriously absent at the small business start-up training/seminar in Dalton last year. Why? Not enough “Vibe” there? Would you make available to the public your list of consultants, their fees, and the number of events each has consulted for?
These are easily obtained facts that you could make available if you’re legitimate. If not, move along, nothing to see here.
Your silence speaks volumes.
I’m never obtuse, I’m RIGHT!
Did Barry McGuire have a comment?
Eva of Destruction.
Well, sheeit. There happened a meeting do I wish I saw for myself.
I will turn 48 this Summer 2023, and all of my life I have witnessed Pittsfield politics shoot down proposal after proposal to revitalize downtown Pittsfield, Massachusetts. No to the downtown Mall proposal. No to the new ballpark proposal. No to the pedestrian district proposal. No to the children’s museum proposal. Over 50 years ago, downtown Pittsfield had a bustling business district, but then the Social Services Agencies took it over, along with the over one dozen empty storefronts on North Street that are surrounded by the “Ring of Poverty” inner-city distressed neighborhoods. The slum lords, scratch ticket buyers, nip bottle drinkers, over 1,000 gang members shooting their guns daily, corrupt career politicians, con men, pot kings, and so on, all won, while the fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski middle-class family lost. Pittsfield is one of the most economically unequal metro cities in the state and nation with the sitting Mayor, Linda Tyer, living in a mansion in an elitist Gated Community within a few feet from the Hancock border. In 2024, Linda Tyer will be collecting her 6-figure city public pension plus perks, while city taxpayers will be paying for her $205.6 million fy2024 municipal budget in return for Pittsfield’s Level 5 public schools…. Pittsfield profits off of the underclass, which I call “Perverse Incentives” compounded by a SCAM(S)!
You you try to break up your posts into paragraphs?
On an unrelated subject, can’t believe nobody has caught the new money grab by city employees and posted it here. Anyone notice firefighters doing road jobs here in Pittsfield? Yup, you heard it right, Pittsfield firefighters now approved to direct traffic at construction sites. If firefighters can do road jobs then why aren’t civilian flaggers at a much lower cost used? More unions taking care of each other. But hey if we can let retired dog officers do road jobs then why not firefighters. Not sure how long it will last since they can’t catch a snooze break in a bunk.
The school sponsored pctv morning stoooge show does commercials now? Dan, do you think local licensed radio stations are happy? And the show is done from a basement.
This is illegal. They either have to be police officers or certified road flaggers. And if firemen can be road flaggers, why can’t a Kapanski?
Road Flaggers and Police Detail | Mass.gov
It’s officially being done. At least three out there today, Allen/Fenn St, Tyler St.
I assume they get the same rate as cops. Can’t get them to cover open fire positions but they are scooping up road jobs, seen them all over this week.
There is no oversight and we can do whatever the hell we want. Just watch us, says that woman. You can’t touch me, says that woman. I will spend till you are all in the poor house, says that woman. Then I am gonna fly outta here and you can all kiss my ass, says that woman.
Where did you hear or read this one? I would love to hear more. What a bunch of BS
Heard it directly from a police officer 2 weeks ago.
Been seeing it with my own eyes all week. Poodle Boy Kohlenberger on the Tyler St roundabout, Nate. Backer Tyler at Pleasure area, 2 on Fenn St
More MAGA bad news. Americas Mayor Rudy Giuliani the lawyer advising Trump on everything is now being charged with rape of his employee and withholding of her wages….This is very shocking news.Republicans are a real mess.They will also collapse the American economy in 2 weeks at the request of Hawley Gaetz and Marge Green and Lady Boebart…..These are the leaders of you great men.Profiles is stupidity.
Marchetti and Kroll have residents living under a Verizen Cell Tower and students schooling on a toxic swamp….Marchetti and Kroll are running on the same platform…..It’s who do you want to raise your taxes every year 10%
Crazy Joe continues to pour illegals across the border and could care less about what this is doing to our country.
Nice diversion Pat
https://youtu.be/9a3eCHij4Vo
It’s true he could indeed care much less. Arf, arf.
He don’t care obviously. He’s just raking in his 10% for the Big Guy.
How much is 10% of what they’ve stolen from the US Treasury and sent to Ukraine?
Articles of impeachment have been served to Traitor Joseph Stolen today.
This after Schiff and Mayorkas, earlier this week. I’m sure more are forthcoming after the Durham report.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/impeachment-week-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-introduces-articles/
Excellent s c. Who do you want to raise taxes 10 percent ? And that’s what it comes down to believe it our not. Congrats to Dan on the accident report a couple weeks ago. Many major news outlets ran with the story but well after the Planets,good job. I’d like to see more of that as it can be reported in real time. Like yesterday many car accidents. Elm street -Williams have had a couple lately what’s going on?
There are probably ten a day but the policy is to keep the high numbers out of the public eye. Makes people in the corner office look bad so we don’t be talkin bout that much. Talk in code on the radio. (but ambulance folk know) (and responding cops know) (and wrecker drivers know) (and sure as hell the insurance companies know)
The next roundabout should go there.
Rotary.
Bartender- Would you like a 12 year old?
Biden- Boy or girl?
Bartender- Whiskey
Do want the same pic of Trump and his daughter or a different one MT?
Have you seen Ashley Biden’s diary, discussing inappropriate shower’s with pedo Joe?
Biden showered with his daughter
welcome to Topix!
Proof positive that Trap has no children.
Proof positive I’m not a diddler/pedo.
Pedo news is number 1 on QAnon Trapper. Stay off that crap and stick with FOX telling you what to repeat often…Mad Zombie
I don’t know, man. You talk about it all the time.
When is Your, and TSC’s next drag show for children?
Chappy has the Bud Light on order
Biden- Cheapskate.
Trap, here is a clip from the movie ‘Ladybugs,’ with the late, great, Rodney Dangerfield. It encapsulates your post above.
Ladybugs funny bar scene – YouTube
Dan, any chance you could add a *community notes* at the bottom of these fact-less posts by TSC?
I’m not opposed to First Amendment Rights by any stretch.
It just gets tiring reading Bud Light fueled posts by TSC that very rarely contributes to the topic.
Who in their right mind, or sober, would even have MAGA and Krol/Marchetti in the same breath?
Make Andrea Great Again
Unfortunately TSC, Fizzlehead, Mr Wrong(oops worldwide) and kindergarden would not be able to post if they needed to back up their writings with facts. All they spew is name calling and lies but I have to admit I get a good chuckle from their stupidity
Ha! ShirlyKuntz is a fine one to talk.
https://youtu.be/9a3eCHij4Vo
Dan’s spy at the meeting, none other than John Krol himself.
John is bad mouthing this community in an attempt to position himself as the savior. Without him this City has no chance.
If he is elected Mayor I wonder how he will handle Dan’s criticism?
MR. W
Wrong. I didn’t even know that JK was at that meeting. I can tell flat out you my spy was someone else.
Gads, this guy is actually having me give Krol a second look.
Does racist Chucky Cheese not like me? Awe, now my feelings are hurt!
I’ll bet you like sheep!
If you want to catch a glimpse of Mr. WW Sir Chaz, hang out at the city clerks office on election night.
He seems to be the only one able to get an updated, running tally, as voting is occurring.
Tell him Cumby’s misses him.
Thanks, I’ll take a raincheck.
Probably the way he handled Dan’s criticism when he was on the council?
Huge increase in shouting schizophrenics!!!
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Everyday, just walking down the middle of the road aka “the bike lanes”. Shouting, spazzing out, frantically waving their arms. At first you think someone is in distress and needs help. Then you realize they’re just taking a spastic stroll down the bike lane.
Everyone at DPI should be fired. They haven’t done shit for Downtown Pittsfield since they decided to start calling it Upstreet in the early 2000s. More than 20 years of wasted resources.
The Beacon Theatre is actually the one shining star on that street, as much as you hate their municipal mooching.
Meanwhile the rest of the street is very obviously being taken over by the “Latin Community” – a lovely thing for their culture and economy, but pretty alienating for people who don’t care for Spanish food as the only cuisine choice.
In tourist news, the Berkshire Flyer (now in its second year of its pilot route) is actively advertising and offering Buy One Get One 50% off tickets to encourage people to take a four hour train ride from New York City to Albany, switch trains, wait 45 minutes and ride the Flyer to Pittsfield. Where they will be dropped off in the middle of nowhere without the ability to rent a car or utilize normal ride share options. One ad even encouraged tourists to bring their bikes.
Pittsfield got $40,000,000 to spur economic growth and recover from pandemic blight.
Forty mil. Bound to be squandered and wasted. Fire everyone.
They got $40 million and instituted the highest tax increase ever. How in the F could that happen in an up and up world?
I saw it coming the moment the announcement came in. This council had a responsibility to coerce the mayor to commit the lost revenue standard allocation to offset rate payers. That we could have done by denying rate hikes that would force her to draw on ARPA as the US Treasury had intended. Instead, the council let the mayor use the lost revenue part on non-income statement concerns and blew the next mayor’s opportunity to report lost revenues in Water/Sewer.
The fraud and incompetence was completely predictable – they always go hand in hand. Who witnessed the hostility of a recent ARPA presentation where the administrators literally played a high school reenactment of a science presentation: they switched off reading verbatim a sparse power point summary of performance. That performance was a profound insult to the residents who were supposed to reap the benefits from the government’s fed/local attritional economic policies. The best one councilor offered in response to my objection was claim that if you do FOIA’s and pester Ruffer, she may agree to eventually yield some reports, but not being able to approve let alone review, any of the spending meant there would be no effective direction.
What should have been done? Replenish lost revenues to replenish reserve funds (thus eliminating rate hikes), complete last mile of broadband to attract business, build community centers as requested by residents of WestSide, massive support for children who have been the primary harmed party by bad and unscientific Covid policies.
We are paying the price of the Federal Act in inflation and tragically, there is no new investment to offset the lost value. The attrition of business and lost opportunity for future TAX PAYING businesses shall be the outcome of Pittsfield’s ARPA adventure.
On thursday, we will award generous gifts to a company called, PathogenX. A study in vaporware product for a vaporware market.
This screams out for a forensic audit. Will that be Pete Marchettis secret weapon to get elected?
Marchetti can spend cash fast.I will never vote for the Peter principle.Not one person I know is voting for Marchetti
Same old same old…. garbage in and garbage out with the Pittsfield mayoral election. Pittsfield must have done something really bad to deserve this chain of incompetent self serving misfit mayors.
Democrats never have enough money. But just keep backing them and believe their lies,
Instead of “a chicken in every pot”……..”A bum at every intersection” – L Tyer
Great column.
The requiem for North St. played years ago.
Yes the flower people do an outstanding job of applying lipstick to the pig. I agree that the DPI budget should be, in part, given to the flower people. Rebecca & Branden should be given pink slips.
I’ve asked before and I’ll ask again, why can’t juvenile/adult probationers pick up garbage on city streets and parks? Do they not do community service anymore? Or is community service just hanging out w/your PO, shooting Tik Tok videos and hoping to become a social media influencer?
Shame them with the bright orange or yellow “Probation” vest on too.
Let the offenders wake up early for a change and make a contribution to society for once in their lives.
Besides, more than likely the needles, nips, and garbage, they are picking up, is the same sheet they threw down only a few hours earlier.
Does anyone know what the explanation is that probationers cannot help out with this stuff? I would think some would volunteer if it would help their case. Is it insurance concerns because it is no more dangerous than the mayor encouraging them to ride in traffic on scooters.
Shame them with a white hood(ie).
Any chance you could provide three instances of “white supremacy” and the terror they’ve caused in the last year?
According to ABC 7 Chicago News, 26 were shot, 8 fatally, in Chicago, over Mothers Day weekend.
Care to comment about that? Certainly not “white supremacy,” the KKK and their “white hood(ies), or Ultra MAGA.
These are indisputable facts. Not my opinion or Ultra MAGA view.
Keep up the YT racist grift though. When’s the next round of ARPA gifts? The BBEC needs to replenish the coffers, true?
What is indisputable is that you are citing those facts.
In other words, you have nothing.
White supremacy permeates our culture. Maybe you haven’t seen it Markus but the rest of us have taken note. Leafleting in the suburbs, marches in Charlottesville and DC, certain posts to this blog, the TOPS shooting in Buffalo, and so forth. Instances like these are myriad and common. If you haven’t seen them it tells us something about you: you are wearing blinders.
Mass shootings occur in every inner city, EVERY WEEKEND.
As I asked above, give me three documented instances of “white supremacy” within the last year.
Would you care to comment on the two black males who were caught on video making racist and anti-Semitic messages in Great Barrington? They go to Simon Rock College. Have you called for their expulsion from school? I damn sure know you would have if it were white males.
Speaking of Simon Rock College, how about the black female who staged a racial kidnapping hoax. She wasn’t expelled or even criminally charged. Why not?
I live in burbs. Other than people like you and your paranoid delusions, I have never heard or actually witnessed any white power literature in my neighborhood.
All that happened at Simon’s Rock is bad, just as you say. No argument.
I have seen ws lit in my neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods. Black violence and black-on-black in the cities is bad and I abhor it, no question.
How about a beggars/panhandlers permit? In order to be able to panhandle you must contribute ten hours a week picking up trash.
The city’s roadside trash is piling up once again and the mayor acts like it is normal and part of Pittsfield’s charm now. The mayor from our Irish sister city was biting his tongue on his last visit.
I floated the idea of a permit by Police Chief Wynn. We should be collecting tax and fees on street vendors.
When challenged, I asked if I could set up a art booth on the median but was told ‘not a chance.’
Oh well…
It’s philistinistic. My fine art is ‘no-go.’ Their performance art is free speech.
No kickbacks on the flowers…nope
Pink slip, daddy. Wash Mt Rd.
My post would have been better suited for Monday’s topic, but this news broke yesterday.
Does anybody remember when DA Wrong Way championed the cause for DA Rachel “Road Rage” Rollins, as being the first black woman to ever hold the position of US Attorney for MA, well guess what?
Road Rage is quitting in disgrace.
Massachusetts US Attorney Rachael Rollins to resign after Justice Department watchdog probe | AP News
I’m sure it’s “systemic racism” against black people, correct Wrong Way, Denny, Shirl?
Just like Wrong Way’s (since deleted) tweet about disgraced, former Baltimore State Attorney, Marilyn Mosby, being persecuted by Ultra MAGA. Not the fact that Marilyn and her hubby were defrauding the American taxpayers with their fraudulent house purchasing schemes.
Rollins also called opposition to genital mutilation of children, i e sex change surgery of minors, a “hate crime”.
sex change surgery of minors is not a “hate crime”
It’s genital mutilation of a minor. The butchers are at Boston Childrens Hospital
“Radical Soros-Funded Massachusetts US Attorney Threatens Americans Who Oppose Genital Mutilation of Children — Calling Opposition a ‘Hate Crime’”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/radical-soros-funded-massachusetts-us-attorney-threatens-americans-oppose-genital-mutilation-children-calling-opposition-hate-crime/
Please try to educate yourself
I’m finished with 3 degrees, the last a PHD.
You get past PHS?
If you had a PhD you wouldn’t say the things you do.
I think for myself, I’m not a “mainstream” or “woke” brainwashed leftist.
The level of your responses does not indicate PhDhood. You never took the classes, passed the exams, did the research or wrote the dissertation. I would bet $100 and I would win that bet.
I think the Latin is Ph.Dom
Passing sewing class does not count as a degree. Same with wood shop or band practice.
So you flunked sewing and band too?
I believe that sewing and band are two of the more challenging trades to learn.
Meanwhile, Wrong Way, who called Rollins her “mentor,” has been run out of not just the job market in the Berkshires and Mass. but the whole northeast. She’s finally found a job working for a soon to be removed from office DA in St. Louis. Word in many staff have walked out in protest due to this DA’s progressive bs. WW is wait for it, “chief of staff”
This is a joke, right Fish? Wrong Way is chief of staff?
Who is the executive VP? Grimace, the McDonald’s purple shake mascot.
I’d trust my freedom in Grimace’s paws more so than WW’s.
Not a joke. ST Louis DA Kim Gardner presides over the per-capita homicide capital of the United States and yet her office has been unable to even show up at murder trials, resulting in defendants being released and others having their cases dropped due to her incompetence.
“Woke”, Soros funded DA Gardner, just resigned amid a scandal.
Marilyn Mosby, Rachel ‘Road Rage’ Rollins, and now Kim Gardner, all resigning because of scandal.
Keep electing unqualified candidates who check DEI boxes and expecting differently, has about the same level of intelligence, as those taking advice about “climate change” from the Ayatollah John Kerry, as he flies in his private jet, eating wagu steaks, and drinking fine wine, from 35,000 feet.
Does this mean DA Wrong Way is now the new boss? If so, God help the poor people of St. Louis. If they thought Gardner was bad, just give WW a few months to screw things up.
Kim Gardner steps down as St. Louis’ elected prosecutor 2 weeks sooner than planned (ky3.com)
Did she pay her taxes in Richmond?
Not sure.. However i did hear that the towns accountant husband was caught after hours in the truck garage with a road crew guy. Kind of a Brokeback Mountain thing apparently..
WTH?? Is this her?
https://stlrecord.com/stories/512565965-court-activity-on-may-23-st-louis-city-collector-of-revenue-vs-andrea-harrington
Oh goody. She’s finally getting some court experience.
puer niger a Marco ictus est
Instead of repeatedly commenting on my posts, you (the BBEC) should focus your energy on setting trainings and seminars for black business owners.
Handing out awards with no training is a recipe for failure.
Then again, the BBEC was never a business to begin with prior to that $700,000 ARPA gift.
I wonder if voters in Pittsfield would have rather put that ARPA money towards lowering their taxes (waste water plant)?
Or like Flat Tyer did, gave that money to the BBEC, if put to a vote?
When is a gift a grift?
I wouldn’t even know how to answer that Dan.
I joined the military after I graduated HS. My “white privilege” never gifted or grifted me anything. I always had to earn it. But I guess that’s the Ultra MAGA in me.
Not Ultra, just MAGA.
Can you list 3 successful companies the BBEC has helped launch? Besides yourself and other “e-board” members, of course.
Why was Alex Blummin denied a loan?
Is he not “vibe” enough?
What types of businesses fit the “vibe” model? Or is it simply skin color that determines the “vibe?”
Any other successful business models the BBEC can point to elsewhere to show the “vibed up” successes? Asking as a concerned taxpayer.
Is your money give away a tax write off for the BBEC and if so, is this legal since the money you are giving away is ARPA money (taxpayer money) and not profits earned by the BBEC?
Kindergarden-you have the Planet’s undivided attention.
Care to answer any of these questions?
Or just call me irrelevant names and quote irrelevant quotes instead? Because you know I’ve called you out on your BS?
As my old football coach used to yell at us, “Stage is your sunshine. Show us what ya got!!”
I’m happy to be here. What do you want big fella? Are you saying that I need to give a white supremacist quote that caused violence to prove they exist?
Have you noticed you’re the only one who keeps bringing up race between us. Why?
Answer the questions I asked. If your legitimate, you’d have no problems answering.
Please ask again, clearly.
Make America a 3rd World Shithole – Leftists
Yeah, where are those $&%#* business owners anyway?
Good post Markus.
To companion the Downtown Pittsfield Cleanup, Downtown Pittsfield, Inc. has proclaimed Friday, May 19th as “Pittsfield Clean Up Day”!
On May 19, all Pittsfield residents are encouraged to get outside and clean up in their own neighborhoods!
” Pittsfield residents are encouraged to get outside and clean up in their own neighborhoods!”
I’m afraid some people may interpret that the wrong way. Semantics is the business of marketers; they should know better.
I took it as the need for vigilantes, to fight the Pittsfield tsunami of crime.
the Pittsunami of crime is no match for the Trappist monkey
Your sandbox is lonely.
Ar we also encouraged to pave our own roads?
Semantics is the business of marketers; Semiotics is the business of businesses.
Fascinating
Selling nova’s in Mexico no va.
Correcto
With all this talk about Downtown Pittsfield,……..what has PEDA been doing the last couple of years?
Better yet, what has Linda Tyer and Pee Pee Petie Marchetti been doing for the last almost 8 years?
The same thing all of the other corrupt career politicians have been doing for the last almost 8 years….
Flat seems to have had an 8 year vacation.
Taxin yer ass off?
They’ve been doing the two step since day 1.
Mr. Meisenheimer’s remains were found less than a quarter-mile from his home on Beaumont Drive.
In wooded area behind a home, in a location easily accessible by a ten year old boy looking for a baseball that went down a hill.
This sounds suspiciously familiar to the untimely death and discovery of Megan Marohn’s body found in the woods in a location that had been searched extensively as well.
What is really going on here? How did a K9 search miss finding Lee Meisenheimer down the street from his home?
My thoughts exactly.
Is anyone really surprised that that could happen under this mayors watch? I don’t think so. Probably don’t even want to know what else is going on that no one is looking for.
No oversight on this administration. But if there were whose job would that be anyway?
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.” – H.L. Mencken
In death, our body feasts on itself. And if not properly refrigerated, becomes a smorgasbord for insects.
Putrefaction has an unforgettable distinctive fragrance. The scent of death lingers in the warm sunshine of July. So, I too, question why K9 didn’t find the putrefying corpse. Perhaps PPD K9 were distracted by the overpowering scent of PPD PIG, which also has a distinctive stench about it.
But the PPD has a history with neglecting of a corpse. The Case of this neglected Corpse took place in 2015 in an apartment on Plunket Street. Legend has it that life ceased to exist sometime in the month of June. And yet the corpse eluded detection from sometime in June, throughout the entire hot sultry month of July, and all the way into the summer dog days of August. The pungent aroma of death apparently didn’t arouse the olfactory senses of the other occupants of the multi dwelling, or the KOPS who allegedly performed at least two Well Being Checks during the month of July, when the KOPS didn’t find anything suspicious at the scene of the elusive undetected corpse.
Decades ago, in Pittsfield, a man hanged himself in his apartment in the middle of the summer. I don’t remember the timeframe from death until discovery of the putrefying corpse, but I remember the cop who offered to show pictures of the hanging putrefying corpse. And if memory serves, the corpse was discovered because someone reported an unpleasant stench in the neighborhood summer breeze.
“How did a K9 search miss finding Lee Meisenheimer down the street from his home?”
The dogs noses were packed with coke from a drug bust. Vibrant and Dynamic……
Maybe the pot stench from Berkshire Roots threw the dogs off. But of course, the mayor and her buddies said there is no odor, it is just a figment of us taxpayer’s imagination.
You can bet if a box of donuts went missing, it wouldn’t have taken a year for the cops to find it.
Happy (Endings) Days are here again:
Bill to decriminalize sex work heads to Judicial Committee | WWLP
Plenty of empty buildings on North Street for some brothels……….
The Berkshire Flyer could advertise and offer, Buy One ticket and Get 50% off hookers.
The BBEC is looking to “Vibe Up North Street.”
The broke, social media influencers will need a future career field and a place of employment.
Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (D-illegal immigrants and sex trade workers), a staunch supporter of the sex trade workers, can even coin Angelo’s old phrase, “Tell ‘um Trish sent you,” for 10% off your order and make a few dollars she can contribute to climate ch….her bank account.
The Cultural Competency Coach will have her greedy paws on both ends of this grift. Most sex trade workers are girls/women of color. She’ll keep the “systemic racism” angle alive.
One of the back-end Trish will slide her a few bucks, because she knows the CC Coach doesn’t really care for her neighborhood, if her bank account grows larger. If she did, why is violent crime at record levels? Certainly not Ultra MAGA either.
Hookers & Sushi, always pay full price. (don’t accept discounted cuisine/entertainment)
Entertainment/cuisine I shoulda put.
Barack Obama saying yesterday that the thing that keeps him awake at night isn’t any of the horrible issues currently facing our country because he knows all about those since he and the globalists are causing all of these horrible things to happen. No, it’s the fact that we don’t all think the same ideas and thoughts because our media is so divided. He is worried because his far left globalist media isn’t the only one feeding its ideas to the public. Because they don’t just read the news anymore. He knows that his and George Soros plans of one world globalist government rests on everyone walking in lockstep and thinking the same thoughts and never questioning what the government run media is telling them. Obama is a really frightening individual who doesn’t see just how deep in the weeds he is with this globalist doctrine.
Obama was 6 years ago Pat…Qanon
Sotero was in on the H-Beast’s Russia treason hoax with Traitor Joe,
that’s treason.
Schiff are Mayorkas going up for impeachment already.
Hope the tribunal is soon. There is no statue of limitations on treason
KKK oops I mean Cuckoo Bird Biden was Obama’s VP and many from that corrupt administration are in the current administration. Go back to Jones and get your meds you are really off kilter
Obama is still running the far left globalist show in Washington D.C.
and Trump is still running the MAGA train…. into a wall
…and you know it Pat. You know it is true.
Traitor Joe is being impeached.
Lots he did since becoming President will convict him, that’s besides: the Biden crime cartel stuff with Hunter, and his involvement in the Russia hoax with Sotero/the Hbeast, Durham just finally came out with.
Peet and Charles yup. I couldn’t get going with my show tonight. First the white board I use collapsed and wouldn’t stay up. Next my front eye tooth got caught on a kanker sore in my mouth..it hurt so bad I had to leave the set and wiggle my tooth out of the sore. Had to start the show all over again.the old saying that when it rains it pours came true for me tonight. The second start went well for me tonight and we had a info packed show. Hope we do better next week. Must be getting old
The show must go on. Good job, CG!
Does anyone wonder why the gazillionaire who invented WATER would seek to be the lowly mayor of Pittsfield. Shouldn’t he be aspiring to loftier goals. Maybe he could invent FIRE. This could be used to roast PIGS and wild mushrooms. It could be used as a source of heat to warm his multi million $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ McMansion on Robbins Ave.
City I hate: Aka Satan’s mother:: How can you consistently get things wrong all the time. I feel sorry for you but there is nothing I or any one else can do for you but I still am trying to make Pittsfield a good place for you to live. I love Robbins ave and so should you. You live 1 minute from our palace on Robbins Ave. I live unfortunately 2 miles from Robbins Ave. I was born on Robbins Ave and I hope when my time comes that I will be in our palace on Robbins Ave. Get a life Deb you must be driving Joe nuts with your deranged mind. I will pray for you
Well, it was bound to come out at some point.
Good luck Craig!
Thank you Craig!
Wahshimgton had the same problem. Wooden teeth suck sometimes.
Yeah far left CBS ABC NBC PBS, all govt run.
Dans the Man
The media in this country went crazy yesterday when Elon Musk dared to criticize George Soros. Musk said that George Soros hates humanity and the media blamed Musk’s opinion on everything from Musk hates all Jewish people to Soros dropping financial ties with Musk. Soros is the guru of the globalist takeover of the world and his massive financial backing has helped to let crime run rampant in this country with his financial support of district attorneys across the country who follow the Soros globalist agenda of letting criminals run wild. It shows just how the globalists have taken over our media and our government when all of the big news media in this country, except conservative, come to the defense of Soros.
Yes it is the famous Soros conspiracy. They run the banks ya know Pat.
Actually, that’s the Rothchilds and all roads lead to there.
Builderberg
Wall Street went crazy on Musk because as a business leader investors get passed when you come out as a SOROS conspiracy person.The press reported that Wall Street was upset.Get it correct Pat
https://youtu.be/9a3eCHij4Vo
Stop it Chappy.
Special. Real &%*# special.
https://wsbs.com/berkshire-district-attorney-andrea-harrington-releases-special-statement/
Dated June 11, 2021?! Your point?
Rollins.
Mayor Jimmy Ruberto bet it all on downtown Pittsfield from 2004 – 2011, and it worked for a few years, but then it tanked. The “Ruberto Renaissance” was sarcastically said to rival the arts and cultural venues of Paris, London, NYC & L.A., but it really rivaled their homeless shelters and distressed neighborhoods. During the 8 painful years of Ruberto’s regime, thousands of residents moved out of Pittsfield, as well as the loss of hundreds of living wage jobs in Pittsfield. Ruberto raised taxes each and every year, including during the worst recession in 2008 since the Great Depression during the 1930s. Jimmy Ruberto never owned or rented a residence in Pittsfield during his adult life, including his time as a mayor. He lived in his mother’s Pittsfield home (he put her into a nursing home), and his real residence was and is in Naples, Florida. After he sold his late-mother’s Pittsfield home a few years ago, he paid cash for his summertime condo unit in Lenox. In 2018, Jimmy Ruberto led a campaign for the Berkshire Museum to sell its historic artwork – including two donated Norman Rockwell paintings by the famous artist himself – for tens of millions of dollars. Protests were held in Pittsfield and NYC. Jimmy Ruberto was the focus of state “ethics” hearings during his time as Mayor of Pittsfield. He even had the unethical “Luciforo” swear him into his third term in early-2008, which painted a perfect picture of the Good Old Boys in their infamous glory in Pittsfield politics. Jimmy Ruberto bequeathed Pittsfield both Linda Tyer and Tricia Farley-Bouvier. He is sarcastically called the Godfather of Pittsfield politics from Naples, Florida. That being said, I am sure that Lou Costi’s heart is in the right place when it comes to Pittsfield.
Jon Melle
Letter: “Saddened by the state of North Street”
The Berkshire Eagle, May 18, 2023
To the editor: At one time, I was the owner of two downtown Pittsfield buildings: the Wright block and Burns block (now Hotel on North).
I had a total of 11 active storefronts in these buildings as well as 24 artist studios and other offices on the second and third stories.
This was not so long ago. I am encouraged to read about Julie Copoulos and her team working to revitalize North Street through the TDI program (“Pittsfield’s transformation specialists,” Eagle, April 11). I hope she reads this letter and is willing to consider what is said.
When I was serving on the City Council and we had James Ruberto as mayor, things were really going along great for all tenants and downtown business. Then along came parking meters, and then someone decided that a bike lane that would take up half the street was a good idea. (By the way, I did have a sighting of a cyclist on the street a couple weeks ago.)
Guess what started to happen? Businesses that were doing fine started to lose customers; businesses started to leave North Street one by one. All the work we had done to revitalize the street — such as adding several liquor licenses for downtown — were all in vain.
As a result of these new ideas, the Wright block and several other buildings are now empty, and it makes me sad. I can only hope that a new administration and hopefully a thoughtful City Council decides to bring back free parking (it would be nice if it were diagonal) and reduce the size of the bike lanes.
It’s hard to believe that in eight or nine years we could regress so much.
Louis A. Costi, Cheshire
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Excellent letter to editor in today’s rag by former city councilor Lou Costi regarding the demise of North St. under the current administration.
PHS locked down yesterday morning due to a man holding a knife in area of East & Second. Police found him on NORTH ST. and sent him to BMC for mental observation.
The only place I shop on North St. is Carr Hardware because they have great merchandise, helpful knowledgeable employees and FREE parking on their lot.
“The only place I shop on North St. is Carr Hardware because they have great merchandise, helpful knowledgeable employees and FREE parking on their lot.”
I take that as a personal compliment.
I carry when in that area though
Located on North Street, across the street from A-mart, nestled between Linden and Madison, one block from Kent Ave., you and everyone else.
It will be a sad day if Carr’s ever closes.
Really? It’s a hardware store come on
To Charles. And Dan. Why would the City Council President be so vociferous when Charles was asking to reduce a line item? Charles has his reason to do anything he wants to try and reduce it whether he’s allowed or not.
You want Marchetti as Mayor?………I’ll vote Krol he he can show some substance. Awful quiet?
Fear.
Go to Hoe Depot then.
Ask them about electrical or plumbing supplies. They will look at you like a sheep without a border collie.
They have bad breath there
It’s not like this is green acres
Krol and Marchetti have been absent in public other than cheesy interviews and kick offs.
I think Valenti should moderate any and all debates. Tammy and Stooge are to dry.
At least the citizens would get their questions answered on the issues. He would get them relaxed and then pounce like a cat and not except non answers that skirt around the questions.
The one thing Dan is good at. But he always does it with a respect to the candidate.
Maybe because they are on the same team? Probably secretly rooting for each other. Whichever one wins will hire the other one as a consultant at big bucks.
That sums it up. When Krol talks he’s very confident. Does he know somethin* we dont?
It always makes me sad when the Eagle prints a story about how other Berkshire County towns get to actually vote a large expenditure up or down. Does anyone remember the last time Pittsfield taxpayers got to vote a large expenditure up or down? I know mayor Tyer never gave the people who elected her the chance to vote up or down any of her large expenditures. And why was that anyway? Why did she feel they had no right to vote on how their money is spent? Did she feel like because she was hanging out with an accountant that she knew more about money than the people who actually worked hard for it? Seems that way huh?
Anyone see Jim Clark leaving the scene yesterday winking at somebody on the way out probably didn’t know the cameras was on him,another retread with another false budget
I couldn’t even get one councilor to trim the council’s hotel bugdet. Not a peep in response to $20000 reductions to HR targeting second language bonuses. Kacey argued that HR would collapse completely if it lost 20 grand. (Practical point: HR is non-productive overhead like account payable. You don’t want to anything for it, but need to spend some)
Budget reductions are a practical thing. Cut EVERYTHING you can EVERYWHERE. There are no magic bullets.
*don’t want to PAY anything for it (overhead like HR)
SIR CHAZ
You shall be missed, by The Kapanskis, most of all. With you there, at least they had someone who could raise the right kind of fire and toast-n-roast the right behinds. You still have another 6 months. As a lame duck, you can let it all loose now. No holding back. Personally, I have found you to be a man of principal, someone with honor and ethics. Hope you stay involved. There are other ways to do it other than the council. Guerrilla warfare is one!
Good questioning Charles at o and r. Seems anything BIC related companies will get what they ask for in tif. Pathogenx is another example.
Crime that’s out of control especially in the large Democratic cities is destroying major retailers. Target may have to seriously raise prices or, even worse, they may go bankrupt if George Soros appointed District Attorneys continue to ignore crime in their cities. Globalist Soros plan is to bring down our entire economy and he is using these DA’s to do just that. Biden is in complete coordination with these globalists and he and Obama, John Kerry, Bill Gates and other globalists are intentionally destroying our country to make way for global government. This is why the media wants no criticism of Soros because they want to hide the role Soros is playing in assisting Biden to bring down our economy. Many people are aware of it, but so many in this country are still wearing blinders, intentionally or because they are kept uninformed by the far left media.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/target-losses-organized-retail-crime-increase-500-million
Dan. You need to look into this Kufflinks crafted budget. Lot of deferred and not spent money that goes back to free cash?
Getting his hands on one set of books is hard enough, but getting his hands on both sets of books would be even harder.
I would not do anything with the Wahconah park in the design options of whatever they’re talking about the bottom line is if you start messing with the floodplains someone else is going to get the same thing at the current parking lot. While getting change there,down the road water has to travel buddy. Personally, looking at the Waterconah Park restoration committee I don’t like the looks of it or any of it,they look like a bunch of beer bellies
And they keep the quality of life crimes bs going. Loaf’s of bread isn’t what being lifted.
Biden, Obama, Kerry, and Gates are intentionally destroying our country. Do you really believe this? Get real, Pat. Stop saying things that are untrue.