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BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MAY 3, 2023) — Housecleaning today for THE PLANET as we present six dustballs collecting in the corners, three on Hidin’ Biden and three on the State of Things in the city of Pittsfield.
Slidin’ Biden: While the president languishes in the polls, look who’s gaining traction. It’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. RFKJ’s anti-Ukraine war, anti-censorship notes have struck a chord. Bobby’s rattling the cages of the tiny cadre of Leftist Loons who control both Biden and the party, which you can judge by the smear campaign against the challenger. Giggling Kamala and The Hysterical Squad have found Bobby guilty of attempting to move the party closer to the center. “My party is becoming a party of war, the party of censorship, the party of fear, and the party of the Neocons and Wall Street, and I just felt that I was in a unique opportunity to change that,” Kennedy told ABC News.
Power Behind the Thorn: From the website 1945 — People looking at Joe Biden sympathetically, who can see that he is unwell, often wonder why his family would be doing this to him. It’s to stroke the First Lady’s ego. Dr. Jill Biden has ascended to heights in America that she probably never conceived. With her hand on the wheel, the First Lady not only steers the country—a daunting thought since nobody voted for her—but she can also ensure that the Biden Syndicate continues to enjoy its massive payday; that her family can still leverage her husband’s job to get paid by powerful foreign interests for access. She is America’s second woman president, after Emily Wilson.
Throwing More $$ Away: Do you still like the Biden Administration? In January, Treasury officials said they would need to borrow $297 billion to pay America’s bills. On Monday, Treasury announced it will borrow $726 billion, an increase of 150%. Why? Because it can. Meantime, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Tuesday the debt limit could be hit as early as June 1. Yellen blamed taxes (too low) and spending (too high). In short, Biden thinks you aren’t being taxed enough to keep up with his reckless spending.
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Deming Demolition: Don’t look now, but the further destruction of Deming Park will be commencing soon. THE PLANET will ferret out the exact plans and share them. It’s not good. We think of the first official message sent with the transatlantic cable, engineered by Sam Morse of Stockbridge: “What hath Crime Dog wrought?”
With ‘Service’ Like This …: Sources tell THE PLANET that ServiceNet, which gets paid huge bux to mismanage Pittsfield’s “houseless” mess, is moving into downtown restaurant space that formerly housed Flavours and then Flat Burger, which folded a few months ago. The kitchen has been dismantled and plans are moving forward quickly. This space is on the same block as the movie theater. Consequently, downtown will lose a restaurant to yet another social service agency (pays NO TAXES). Where is the mayor to step in and say, “Nope, not under my watch?” Where is downtown Pittsfield Inc. advocating for its master plan?
What Maintenance?: When the city council’s buildings and maintenance committee (it’s not a subcommittee) met this week, councilors expressed dismay and surprise when maintenance director Brian Filiault outlined the appalling conditions. Committee chair Dina Lampiasi and committee members (Marchetti, Kronick, Conant, Persip) should be the least suprised citizens in the city. They’re the ones who mismanage a municipal budget that’s now counted in hundreds of millions. Pittsfield has overloaded the union$, particularly $ochol$, and gypped most everything and everyone on city side. For ages, now, the Pittsfield Way has been to ignore upkeep, let conditions reach fail-safe, then panic. Filiault, of course, blamed the pandemic. COVID has become the city’s blank-check excuse for everything except climate change.
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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I can remember the former Dalton rep Guyer saying he needed ten times what that council gave him for building and maintenance which was way before Covid. Then he Resigned.
It would be fitting if service net changed it’s name to Flavors of Malfunction.
I remember on the old Dan Valenti show a member of the city council believe it was Jim Arpante telling his audience Pittsfield has an uninformed electorate and very uninterested one at that. Same as today.
and most of the elected officials would like to keep it that way. Not easy getting any questions answered and sometimes you have to pay for information or wait and wait and ask again and again. Marchetti and some other councilors superior attitudes do not help.
there used to be an annual report detailing most city expenses and other pertinent information about the city. Most Berkshire towns still do it. Not Pittsfield who cannot even provide a stamped envelope for its own census while it spends many thousands of taxpayer dollars for flowers and other roadside decorations. (who did you say was the vendor for city flowers)? Dunno? Never mind.
Pittsfield is run by Larry, MOe and Curly and barring an intervention is not going to change for the next two elections cycles at least.
Just go. Put yourself first and get the hell out of dodge because this circus is embedded and not going anywhere folks.
Good, willing candidates are hard to find – they don’t grow on trees. In the absence of talent ya gotta pull together, at least if you can’t lead the effort yourself. It’s either that or like snark says get outa Dodge.
That is a very decent point. Gave you a vote
Thanks, but this will not endear you to your compatriots.
I’m still beating you.
Yes
Financial Reports:
https://www.cityofpittsfield.org/departments/revenue_and_expense_reports.php
Independent Audit:
https://www.cityofpittsfield.org/departments/annual_audits.php
(most recent 2021)
You’re allegedly on the city council, so maybe you can tell all of us comrades, why in the corrupt city of Pittsfield there are only 11 tradesmen on the payroll to take care of all the decrepit city owned buildings? Why since 2016 there was a 50 percent reduction in the workforce required to maintain city owned buildings, despite the ugly fact that the city budget has increased by SEVERAL MILLION$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, year after year, after year, after year……. WHY, when the city budget was SEVERAL MILLION$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ LESS, the municipal workforce was MUCH LARGER WITH MORE PLUMBERS, ELECTRICIANS, and CARPENTERS? Explain it to all of us OVERTAXED comrades like we’re five-year-olds. And leave out all the BS about covid. IDGAF about covid. Covid didn’t cause the neglect, deterioration and corruption to city owned buildings.
Pittsfield’s corrupt city officials found $800,000 PLUS to sink into the privately owned 100 North Street property. The specious excuse for this waste of taxpayer money was because SHITTY CITY HALL was CONTAMINATED, way beyond all remediation. And yet, after moving city employees out of the contaminated city hall basement, shitty corrupt officials decided that the allegedly molding crawlspace shitty city hall basement would be the perfect place for a HEALTHY GYM for municipal employees.
Pompous gasbag PEE PEE marchetti, who is a ginormous part of the colossal problems in Pittsfield, when asked if the city of Pittsfield has city owned buildings that could be retrofitted for staff or if the city is at maximum capacity for most buildings, was allegedly informed that the only city owned property available, is the basement of CITY HALL. The same BASEMENT that was allegedly unsuitable for humans, thus necessitating the specious need for taxpayer dollars to rehabilitate the privately owned property at 100 North Street. Obviously, the problem is not, not enough room, the problem is that there’s TOO MUCH STAFF!
The city of Pittsfield doesn’t need more STAFF, it needs a whole LOT LESS BLOAT, a whole LOT LESS PARASITES. It needs BETTER QUALIFIED STAFF! It doesn’t need even one Shirley Sharpton Edgerton or even one DIE officer from North Adams.
The corrupt city of Pittsfield now has a WHOLE ONE PAINTER, for all of Pittsfield’s city owned painting needs. And for that we got SCOHOL! This, despite SEVERAL MULTI MILLION$$$$$$$$$$$$$ increases in the taxpayer funded budget, year, after year, after year, after year……..
While city owned properties crumbles from corruption, ineptitude, and greed, corrupt city officials doled out $2MILLION PLUS for the privately owned Beacon, sunk another $800,000 into the privately owned 100 North Street, put a new roof on at least one CHURCH, replace ornate iron gates at another CHURCH, added a racially motivated suspect office of inequality to the taxpayer funded pay roll, and bankrolled a taxpayer funded trip to Africa for AFRICANS. And city officials are further yoking taxpayers with PICKLE PARKS and Pump Ball albatrosses. Forget about explaining all corrupt this shit to me like I’m a 5-year-old, I get it. OBVIOUSLY, there are WAY TOO MANY CORRUPT INEPT shitty city officials.
Well. Yes! And be certain that I too speak very frankly with my colleagues, both on and off the hallowed ground that we sanctify, briefly, twice a month.
Charles,
I had The misfortune last night of being on Hamlin Street and having to traverse the mud pit in front of the abandoned building that just a couple of months ago was available housing stock.
What happened there?
More importantly how soon can that mess be cleaned up and brought back to usable and affordable for the regular Joe housing?
The Cultural Competency Coach’s family and friend’s vacation “to explore her roots,” hasn’t been factored in yet Outfox. Flat and Co. will stonewall Sir Chaz.
Affordable housing is the latest and greatest left-leaning grift.
These illegal immigrant’s are going to need a place to live, hence the pressing need now for ‘affordable housing.’
That, plus the kickbacks associated with projects of this magnitude. Flat has to leave some low hanging fruit (taxpayer money) for the next mayor.
Are you admitting to you and your colleagues being guilty of open meeting violations? Well, never mind!
Hypothetically speaking, WWJD if late at night he’s awaken by the sound of gushing water? Would he investigate, or would he maybe think it’s just the beginning of another 40 days and 40 nights of rains to cleanse the world of corruption, again? Nothing to lose sleep over, so Jesus goes back to sleep.
But curiously, Jesus awakens to bright sunlight, and it’s not raining cats and dogs. And yet Jesus can still hear something that sounds a lot like water gushing, from somewhere. Still confident that Father knows best, Jesus ignores a very real problem and go about his day, oblivious to the warning sounds of gushing water.
After a long day in the carpentry shop, Jesus comes home, and again hears the sound of gushing water, coming from somewhere. But instead of investigating, because he has faith, Jesus prepares his meager dinner and sits down in front of his tv to watch an endless stream of interracial homosexual commercials occasionally interrupted by reruns of Honey Boo Boo, Love After Lockup and Octomom.
This, of course goes on for days. But not without other warning signs that something is very wrong. Like the day he comes home only to find that water is now seeping through his living room ceiling. And that annoying gushing sound of water is still there. And then another day Jesus comes home to find that not only can he still hear the sound of gushing water, but now water is seeping through his living room ceiling. Soon after that, Jesus comes home after another long day in the carpentry shop. These long workdays are essential to ensure that Jesus will be able to pay his ever-burgeoning tax bills and water and sewer bills. Upon entering his overtaxed home, Jesus now finds that the living room ceiling has collapsed onto his favorite sofa, and there’s a BIG PUDDLE of water in his living room, and water is dripping on his television. But still, Jesus does nothing, because Jesus has faith on his side that if he ignores the problem long enough it’ll just go away. And anyway, there’s a 72-hour Honey Boo Boo and Mama June marathon on tv.
Old joke, and you told it all wrong.
Firstly, it’s not a joke. Several years ago, when that drooling fool reilly was mayor I confronted him about the hazardous conditions of the front steps to shitty city hall. That fool drooled as he giggled. That drooling goon hasn’t been mayor since 1998, and the only changes in shitty city hall have been changes for worse. Now in addition to the hazardous locked entrances to shitty city hall, the rusty broken railings, the heaving steps, the moldy mildew basement health club, the dingy filthy toilets, now the ceiling in the shitty city hall council room is caving in. But the second floor to the privately owned 100 North Street property looks nice. And the building that houses the Beacon Theatre got new plushy cushy loungers and a whole new sewer system, as did the Church Condos on Tyler Street, and the old Tyler Street fire station got a new roof, all courtesy of the overtaxed taxpayers. So, while Pittsfield burns, all of its allegedly elected charlatans’ diddle. I personally have not benefitted from all these taxpayer funded improvements.
“Firstly, it’s not a joke.”
Ah, but mine is a jewish joke. Asimov’s book of 1,000 Extremely Funny Jewish Jokes. Seriously though, if you write like that what else could it be? I’m really very literal.
“That fool drooled as he giggled.”
Wish I saw it!
“now the ceiling in the shitty city hall council room is caving in”
Best strategy is to wait for it to collapse before fixing it. Peel away at the tiles and who knows what we’ll find. Anyway, a good captain goes down with the ship.
“But the second floor to the privately owned 100 North Street property looks nice”
Thus ended Bianchi’s public career. What happened after that is tragic.
“And the building that houses the Beacon Theatre got new plushy cushy loungers and a whole new sewer system, as did the Church Condos on Tyler Street, and the old Tyler Street fire station got a new roof, all courtesy of the overtaxed taxpayers”
The myth of publicly funded businesses has a long life ahead with this Council. I’ll keep voting no on them. As the last of GE money is gifted to neredowells, I was terribly disheartened that the well is to be replenished by tax dollars. I mentioned scientology somewhere….
“So, while Pittsfield burns, all of its allegedly elected charlatans’ diddle”
I got in trouble with M DALY for being present in this room when that word was uttered, especially in the context of councilors. No further comment pending. Public Record: I do not endorse diddlers.
” I personally have not benefitted from all these taxpayer funded improvements.”
Me neither, and I’m not looking for friends.
Why would M DALY be offended by the word “diddle?” Or was the word “charlatan?”
Diddles, friend, diddles. I like Daly and he has a good product and does well by the community. What he does takes money, labor, creativity, and love. That which is created from love comes from the Almighty.
I respect him, and he was in his right to object. He was offended, and I was not. Big deal.
They [not MD, just milksop cowards who flee from my approach in supermarkets (another story for facebook is like road rage for these critters)] called me a charlatan. That was a first for me. It may have stung, but I wasn’t really paying attention to the bites. All of my predictions came true. The budget resulted in an explosion in our taxes and further disequity and discomfort for all. Thank heavens for the Charter Objection, it almost worked except they conspired to violate MGL on budgets. Really, that’s how bad that season was. I revealed little on the budget, accomplished nothing on the spending, but I did reveal that they would break Mass Gen Law to get what they wanted right then and there. I think that may have been a first for the Commonwealth.
Back to smut. People got very mad at me when I posted on a page where diddles were invoked. Personally, I opposed it: both George Washington and Thomas Thomas Jefferson would have protested, and I hold both in highest regard though they had little for the other. But Franklin and Lincoln would have partaken. A conundrum, I say, such a conundrum. So, a part of me said heck. Maybe a homunculus tricked me? Maybe…. Why the hell not?
Short answer:
“Something there is that doesn’t love a diddle. Something there is that does”
I can’t tell if I’ve somehow offended chronic, or if he agrees with me. In either case, I really don’t care. But I’m sure I could have used today in a more constructive way. Maybe tomorrow.
CITY
Ah well, tomorrow is another day, if not another daze. Thanks for your participation on the board. You are strident, sometimes to a fault, but passion seeks outlets. Good show.
Excellent reporting of the truth here.
Thanks for posting this even though it didn’t make me feel any better. From what I could tell there is duplicity in many of the posted jobs. Admittedly I do not know what it takes to run a city but with technological advancements over the last 100 years you would think that the need for this many assistants is unneeded. From what I read it seems the city leaders and citizens really need to take a long look at every position and department to see if it is needed anymore. In my professional life I have found less is more!
Yes. THE PLANET also commends SIR CHAZ for the communication with constituents, which he augments with his input to this board. It’s telling that he’s the only one who dares do this, in his own name. There are and have been others on the dais who make remarks but always using pen names.
Tell me what you see – specifics!
Send it to Dan. he can push it forward if he chooses
I don’t believe that we are uninformed or uninterested.
We are both of those things, but IT DOESN’TMATTER..
We all know that local elections are where our vote in the majority of towns and cities in America will make a difference and will matter but Pittsfield ain’t one of those towns or cities.
I’ve been here 25 years and for 25 years have been “Praying For Sheetrock”.
That’s the title of a book written about a town in I believe it was Georgia that was run by the good old boys and one man took them on. It is a true story and a worthy read.
I’ll grab it. Pittsfield is beginning to feel like a scientology owned town.
It is definitely owned. And it ain’t owned by the people who live there. But you have about as much chance of coming out ahead in Pittsfield as you do in Las Vegas. Pittsfield is a place where only the people who do not know any better should be living.
Show yourself some love and say good bye. Leave the city to the carpetbagger types.
You are completely correct that it is owned. That is why a forensic audit shall reveal nothing and clear the record.
We are interested, and informed, but it doesn’t matter that should read!
The sheer about of right-wing idiocy festooned on this board is proof positive of that.
Uh, H.L., shouldn’t you proof before hitting “send,” or is one sentence too much for you?
Then when Kamala Harris is elected she will be America’s third woman president. Biden is hidin’ in plain site at the correspondent’s dinner. The lunar leftys don’t need to conduct a smear campaign against Trump – he’s done a pretty good job of that by himself. Bobby would be a good candidate if he had a ghost of a chance, which he doesn’t, unfortunately for the McConnell GOP faction.
K-not sure if you are aware, most people who sit on the right despise Mitch. McConnell is a RINO and part of the uni-party of Sotero, Bill Gates, and China Joe Xiden.
With all this evidence against the Xiden Crime Syndicate, why hasn’t Mitch started impeachment proceedings? Because he’s one of them.
Bought and paid for by China.
Yes it is true, Markus, the GOP is split. And so the election is a shoo-in for the Dems. Thank you Mr Trump!
Over $5 for a gallon of gas, high inflation, the high cost of groceries, or heating oil, and on the brink of WWIII over Ukraine, but you’re right Kindergarten, life was much worse under Trump.
Oh, here’s one more for you. Another feather in the cap of the Xiden Crime Syndicate. This just came out a few hours ago:
Comer Subpoena’s FBI Whistleblower Form Detailing Allegations of Biden Bribery Scheme with Foreign National | National Review
Xiden was VP was this took place by the way.
Question is, will you get to choose your Democrat?
Not if the DNC has anything to say about it.
No I suppose no one will be doing any choosing on that side unless R Kennedy gets himself on a stage.
It’s a lock.
I’m rooting for Kennedy. Make America Normal Again.
Make America America Again: MAAA
There ya go!
Will they nominate another DEMented one like in 2020?
America has been in a free fall for 2 1/2 years now with the current installed vegetable.
The bizarre collection of freaks, crooks and deviants , he has hired has effected all of America for the worse.
Make that ‘affected’, there, genius. Stupid is as stupid does.
Depends upon the effect.
Not the way he used it.
He could be talking about an effective response.
Bozo, Biden’s freaks et al ……effected…..America for the worse
Effect can be a verb. As a verb, effect generally means “to cause to come into being” or “accomplish.”
You compound not being able to use ‘effect’ /‘affect’ properly with a misguided stabbing attempt to pretend you knew the difference in the first place. Who taught you English? Whoever it was didn’t succeed.
Your usage ‘… he has hired has effected all of America for the worse…’ is wrong, and is made correct by replacing ‘effected’ with ‘affected’. ‘Effect’ as a verb can take ‘change’, but not ‘America’, as an object, as many readers can rightly attest.
I wouldn’t have minded but for your criticism of Kamala’s use of language.
I bet you went to PHS!!!
“President Biden has appointed wack jobs. I mean, it’s like these people dropped acid in an Outback parking lot” – Sen R F Kennedy Jr
To be fair, every year I need to recalibrate my Affect Meter.
A little grumpy there Mr. Worldwide. Just get off the midnight patrol shift at Cumby’s?
Or were the hot dogs stale or Slurpee machine not loaded of that sugary goodness for a guy like you?
hey wait a minute…
Harris can’t form coherent sentences.
It’s not because she’s demented like Biden, she’s just STUPID!
So now the mayor wants volunteers to clean up the dog park. Maybe Tyer, Marchetti and Kerwood should be at the front of the dog poop line. They’ve been crapping on Pittsfield too long. Now THEY can clean it up.
Pete White might help if free box lunches are provided. This job does not require bending over does it?
Don’t build another thing you can’t maintain.That ignorant
I know of a place on outer West street to dump the poops.
Gotta scat, man. He just can’t help it folks.
I agree with blogger Dan Valenti that downtown Pittsfield doesn’t need yet another social services agency. For decades, North Street has been sarcastically called “Social Services Alley”. Homeless people are shitting on the sidewalks. Pittsfield’s commercial tax rate is one of the highest in the state. It is no wonder that North Street has 15 empty storefronts. Pittsfield’s middle-class residents have been shrinking in numbers over the past 50 years. The people who “have not” moved away from Pittsfield are the same “Have Nots” who cannot afford to live somewhere else. Over 1,000 gang members live in inner-city Pittsfield. There are daily shootings, violent crime in Pittsfield is always in the top ten list of cities by population in Massachusetts, and letter writers have stated that they fear for their personal safety and lives. Pittsfield has level 5 public schools with over 650 students per academic year who choice out to neighboring public school districts. How did Pittsfield go into this downward spiral? Where are the politicians who don’t live over 1,400 miles away in Naples, Florida or in a mansion in a Gated Community or own a stinky Pot Kingdom on Dalton Avenue, along with a Pot Shop in East Boston?
In 2023’s mayoral election, Pittsfield gets to choose between candidate banker, candidate unemployed, or the fringe candidate who we have seen often in the county courthouse. The City Council election is a mere formality for Pete White’s promotion to City Council Prez under would-be Mayor Peter Marchetti – 2 Petes in a pod. The School Committee election will see schoolmarm Sara Hathaway return as the teacher they cannot fire and when they tried, she walked away with an undisclosed financial settlement from the city. Mayor Linda Tyer will soon retire and go on to collect a 6-figure city public pension plus perks, along with her multimillionaire CPA third husband Barry Clairmont, who is suing Melissa Mazzeo over her exercising her right to Free Speech and her not apologizing to him for making an alleged false accusation against him in the Fall 2019 election that his second wife, Mayor Linda Tyer, won. There have been people, including Jon Melle himself, who have gone through far worse than Barry Clairmont, in Pittsfield politics, but don’t f*#* with the “Big Guy” if you don’t want him to sue your @$$ in court! Barry Clairmont should run a distressed postindustrial city with a dangerous downtown full of (shit and) empty storefronts in China or Russia or North Korea or Iran so that he can sue everyone and anyone who exercises their freedom of speech and causes him emotional distress and perceived financial losses. Russia’s Putin started out that way and look where the crazy old dictator is today. Putin has a lot more money than Barry because his business plans worked out in his favor.
My political email yesterday was blocked by Mayor Linda Tyer, once again. The irony is that I have been a supporter of Linda Tyer in Pittsfield politics over the past 20 years. I guess that Linda and Barry do NOT like Free Speech in Pittsfield politics (and beyond).
As for RFK, Jr., when he is not suing Daily Kos in two states – New York and California – and when he is not giving speeches referencing Nazi Germany or even to neo-Nazis in Berlin, Germany, he is making more utopian promises than Bernie Sanders did in 2016 when Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, who had neo-Nazis work for his presidential campaigns and in his administration. Of course, Joe Biden has a public record of racist language and policies in his over 50 years in the Swamp, but he has made some progress towards racial justice in recent years. If only Joe Biden could stop his troubled son Hunter Biden from making the wealthy multimillionaire Biden political family look bad then he would have more legitimacy in 2024.
You’ll post all that, but continue to vote Democrat.
JM you’re like the dumb dog that hasn’t figured out that chasing your tail gets you nowhere.
Barry chased tail and look where it …..got him some covid money is what
It did allow him to patrol the parking lot at Cumby’s.
Or who can ever forget when he got lost in city hall on election night. Who else would have that kind of access to the City Clerk?
A phone call, text messages, or emails, couldn’t have taken care of that task?
1000 Gang members?
Staying with 1000 welfare mothers in section 8 housing,
Hundreds of Bums living in city parks and wooded areas and plying their wares at most intersections.
Logorrhea city.
“Two Pete’s in pod”
Good one, Jonathan!
At least Deming has a beautiful little league field. To access Clapp Park, you first have to drive over The Craters of The Moon potholes in the driveway, and the little league outfield is a mess. Tyer should be ashamed of herself. West Hous is going the way of Tyler Street, and Clapp is going the way of Springside. Down the shitter. If Tyer had to drive over the craters to bring her kids to little league maybe she would care. She is Mayor Couldn’t Care Less! How can she look herself in the mirror each day?
Did you mean Mayor Care Less or Mayor ClueLess? Asking for a friend.
I think that woman can proudly hold both titles.
JOE
I agree about the Deming LL field. Problem there is that it’s been taken over by the private interests involved with LL. No one else can use it, though it’s nominally a “public” facility.
Will that happen with the new pickleball courts? Will control be handed over to Berkshire Mountain Pickleball Club? Will taxpaying residents have access over the club’s hilltown /dalton/hinsdale members? Still waiting to hear how the Parks Dept. will oversee/ maintain the new facility.
BMPC is a class act and pays their fair share whatever their role is.
Does that mean, if they are connected to the courts, that they will also pay for their construction? You may need to define “pay their fair share.”
No, but they’ll pay to play.
Ok!
Robbery and extortion is fair now?
They will build with our money and some private group will run it and sell wine.
Deming used to be open, to all kids, for pick-up baseball and football games. We’d go to Palmers, for candy sodas and ice cream, before/after.
Yeah, if you were in BR or Little League.
Nope , just kids having fun outdoors.
Kids used to do that.
City handed it over 40 years ago.
Joe, I thought it was called Crack Park, and I thought Springside was called Nips and Needles Park. and I thought Park Square was called Beggars Circle, and I thought Tyer was called Lying Linda!
Way to hit those change ups out of the park Dan! I did see the headline for city’s property on iberkshire and before I even read it I had a pit in my stomach. I knew before reading it that it was a Kapanski’s money grab! How could Marchetti say they couldn’t find any free space in a publicly owned structure outside of the cellar in city hall??? Instead of fixing Williams school with it’s class sizes under 10 let’s combine it with another elementary school, personally I would send them to Allendale because I am sure things would get fixed there in a jiffy. The school administration is almost vacant and would be if you got rid of half the unneeded positions and move them into PHS which has a ton of space seeing how the census is half of what it use to be, I could continue but I have to go withdraw all my money and start digging holes in the backyard to hide it from the clowncil and useless!!
Good points Shirly. Here is a review of our 5yr old High School. Remember all the hoopla about the state of the art classrooms and all the bells and whistles to help the teachers make the students into junior Einsteins. Not going so well. Here is a review. Taconic is in the bottom 50% in all aspects of learning. Now the school is going to be turned into a vocational school and send the rest of the kids to good OLD Pittsfield High. My point being there was no public input for the new school and in just 5 short years they want to scrap it and redo it into a vocational school. I am not saying thats a bad idea, just short citedness that should have been discussed early on. Oh thats right no real public input was ever allowed.
https://www.publicschoolreview.com/taconic-high-school-profile#:~:text=Taconic%20High%20School%20serves%20869,the%202020%2D21%20school%20year.
CAT
Excellent analysis of the “new” THS debacle. No public input, decisions made in secret, and now the Kapanskis are left with the present situation. Pittsfield is “Groundhog’s Day.” Same, over and over. People remain apathetic, office holders do what they want.
prolly could have used the one they tore down for vocational huh?
so how much of this “vocational” school will be sitting unused? And where are all the vocational kids going to come from? Will the city be busing them in from boston?
But at least 3rd grade reading proficiency rates have not improved since Pittsfield made that Promise to increase Third Grade Reading Proficiency rates way back in 2012. If anything, as the bloated SCOHOL budget has increased to obscene levels, Third Grade Proficiency rates have declined even further in the Pittsfield SCOHOL System of Deficiency. I said it before, and I’ll say it again, the new THSCOHOL should be retrofitted into an institution for the growth of Cannabis, Hallucinogens, and the manufacturing of Ghost Guns and crystal meth. All of which there is a profitable market for in the city of Pittsfield. The atrium can be retrofitted into Poppy Fields. These improvements may in fact have the added benefit of increasing SCOHOL attendance rates and slowing down the Pittsfield SCOHOL drop-out rate.
CITY
THE PLANET appreciates how you keep track of small details that others might miss, for example, the 2012 Reading Proficiency fakery. If the SCOHOL Department develops a program to improve reading, you can count on reading abilities to plummet. SCOHOL FOREVER!!
As a long time educator, as moronic as the situation is, turning THS into a strictly vocational school is a good idea IF done properly. It could potentially bring in hundreds of thousands of school choice money and trades are where the current job market is at. McCann Tech, Smith Voc, Westfield, etc. pull in big bucks and there are huge lotteries to even get a shot at going. McCann boasts a 95%+ rate of either college or jobs upon graduation.
$100 says we screw it up somehow though.
The economy is so terrible and inflation so bad because of the constant spending and, as with everything else like the border fiasco, this is all intentional by the Biden administration. Jill does like the wealthy life and is constantly going to Hawaii and spending, spending, and spending. She could easily influence Joe not to run, but she is addicted to the legal and illegal money that Joe keeps pulling in. It’s beyond sad that she ignores her husband’s cognitive decline and keeps pushing him to stay in office. It’s dangerous for our country and the world too.
Pat, people like Joe, Jill, Hunter – they are just meat to each other. And meat is what they like to eat.
Good points again. Regarding the effervescent covided-this/that, I agree that excuse has lost its snap. But, I would not be surprised that we had to slow way down in building upkeep duringv2020-2021.
1) building supplies costs went through the roof ($100 plywood).
2) specialized tools/equipment vanished due to transport supply collapse and forced slow down in factories. You couldn’t even buy a domestic made hand plane then. Specialized brass adapter for a CNC was off market throughout 2022. Chippewas shoes made in USA is gone forever and now all made in Vietnam it took 8 months to get an electric violin shipped from Japan to vermont.
Still, from what I heard, the main issue today is labor and inefficient building use. Both of which could balance each other in cost.
Charles, given what you have just pointed out about the exorbitant costs of building materials, why is the Pittsfield mayor going on a building rampage? All of a sudden the city needs to redo Springside park again. Has she even once in her tenure asked about costs for ANYTHING when she gets her Kardashian itch to spend like a drunken fool? I though accountant Barry would be yanking her chain when it came to spending taxpayer money but looks like I miscalculated by a few miles on that one.
Springside House is a good project to complete in planned stages (not all at once.) The grounds and first floor could be rented for business and for tourist/educational/social purposes. It costs money to keep it empty, we have some obligation to the Miller family to preserve it along with the 500 acres around it. You understand my opinion how Parks is handling the acreage.
My argument is that city funding for that project belongs to the CPA which the city has refused to consider. (That is why I voted against the Free Cash application.
Buildings review did not point out a single crisis. The department is funded, and repairs are managed. Issues of boilers should be considered with the School Committee’s upcoming consolidation plan. I have no problem with the City Council ceiling’s imminent collapse upon the Left Wing of the City Council.
“the main issue today is labor…”
Traitor Joe, is importing a MILLION new criminal alien “workers”, on the 10th of May.
How many will Pittsfield get? Will they fix potholes? Are criminal aliens exempt from minimum wage?
Not sure they’re criminals.
Criminal Aliens.
It’s mostly a supply-chain issue, with the China route now cut off due to politics.
No, it’s not simply ‘politics.’ Also, I did not know that Japan was on the China route – that could imply that the CCP are correct that they own the Pacific Ocean.
China-to-Japan supply chains for both components and finished goods were devastated under Covid and have not recovered due to political relations.
Thanks. I believe that there is an inherent pressure to stop importing/outsourcing with China. I don’t see that as political. Tariffs are good foreign policy. They should be employed when trading with adverse partners. Do you believe that concern about China’s dominance in our generic pharmaceuticals is political or practical? I say that if it is political then we do have a serious problem.
The cooling of US relations with China has had an effect on Japan’s relations with China.
I thought Japan and China had a rather long history of cool relations.
We basically don’t like each other very much right now, and Japan follows suit.
You and I dislike each other (your words!), and the Nation of Japan is taking sides? I had no idea I had that influence! Ah the honor of public service.
Make that Empire of Japan. No, as you know, we = US and China. I like you just fine . As Dan says, you are very brave!
Corporate price gouging use to be illegal
Our liberty should never be exercised at the expense of another’s conscience (Romans 14:13-17).
Unbelievable. What a bunch of f***ing losers.
Not sure if the Planet caught the article about this grifter in Lenox. He gave a speech about “the threat to democracy.” Any guesses what the big threat is?
In Malcolm Nance’s opinion, “right-wing extremists.” Color me shocked.
In Lenox talk, defense analyst and author Malcolm Nance warns attendees about threats to democracy at home and abroad | Local News | berkshireeagle.com
Remember when we used to have debates when people made claims like Malcolm did? Especially when a person makes a claim but doesn’t provide proof or facts to back it up.
I’d like to ask Malcolm to give me three examples in the last year of “right-wing extremists” and the terror they caused.
The last few mass shootings, not counting every weekend in the inner cities of Chicago, DC, NYC (mostly black I’ll add), have been done be trans-guys dressing up like girls. They were definitely not “right-wing extremists.”
I’d then like to ask him what has he done to better the black community? Black on black violence is at an all-time high. Just look at Pittsfield and the crime and gang issues going on. It’s certainly not “right-wing extremists” I see or read about.
It seems guys like Malcolm or the Cultural Competency Coach, love to continue the hoaxes of systemic racism and America is doomed because of right-wing extremists. The funny thing about both of them, they do absolutely NOTHING to curb the black-on-black violence that they claim to defend. We used to call these people scam artists in the day.
They do get rich though keeping up theses grifts.
We missed it, MARK, and we’re glad we did.
Maybe you are not glad you missed it. The speaker is a career intelligence officer who espouses hate towards republicans. Very big on furthering military adventures abroad, he returned home to continue his war. From the Guardian:
“In They Want to Kill Americans, Nance argues that the threat from domestic terrorists, the Republican party and former president Donald Trump is even worse than you already think. He suggests that an insurgency was under way well before January 6 and that the 74 million people who voted for Trump were by definition expressing hostility towards American democracy.”
Scary stuff that military/intelligence is waging domestic war against a major established political party and its members.
School Comm: The concept of patriotism as a pursuit of ‘democracy’ elsewhere is not in the historical books.
James Madison”: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” Elections do not make free people.
also scary stuff that Trump tried to overthrow our government. Turns out, a lot of his antics are why Nance feels the way he does…go figger
Here’s some nice gifts from our fellow traveler:
“Nance is also donating $100,000 from the advance for his book to ensure the legionnaires have the equipment they need. The volume’s cover – an ersatz gallows erected outside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021, with a skull and crossbones flag and Trump flag nearby – makes clear that the existential threat to democracy is not confined to eastern Europe.”
Very pretty?
““The Republican party is an insurgent party, no longer interested in government but using the levers of power to damage government and destabilize government and reflect the wishes of the armed insurgents, the militias, even the terrorists. They themselves are the knife at the throat of American democracy.”
If this passes, coming from an American officer, without bipartisan condemnation, then our civilization is dead and gone forever. We’re done. You and I are his dinner.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/28/malcolm-nance-interview-republican-party-ukraine
I missed a bigger point a presumed officer directs threat of lynching towards an American president. That is seditious. I also chafe at the presumption that a measure of an American’s loyalty is how much he is willing to contribute to any foreign party. I chafe!
Lenoxologists have First World problems. They are still in group therapy over 2016.
Malcolm is an American hero who fights fascist everywhere and has recently fought on thr ground for democracy in the Ukraine.He is proud of our greatest generation and disgusted by white fascist MAGA
I’m curious: How much did he get paid to regurgitate his words to a rapt Lenox audience?
Whatever the market will bear. Less than Stockbridge, I’ll wager.
Lenox used to be a nice place to live.
No it was and is a terrible place to live and they are very bigoted. Just remember the Lenox 7
Or the Lenox House salad bar.
It used to be a good town, for the residents.
Now it only caters to tourists.
You forgot the other leftist buzz words……racist xenophobic homophobic transphobic far-right……
“Malcolm is an American hero who fights fascist everywhere and has recently fought on thr ground for democracy in the Ukraine.He is proud of our greatest generation and disgusted by white fascist MAGA”
Put out more flags? (Dan or wannabe would get this reference.)
You think Dylan Mulvaney is a hero. Enough said.
I saw that article and had to double up on my blood pressure meds. What a pile of bs!
He was half right. The problem is extremist on both sides.
Half right is worse than all wrong.
“But I do think that there is a growing coalition in this country of populist forces, on the Left and Right, that are convening now and finding common ground. And I think that really is probably the only thing that is going to rescue American democracy.” – R.F. Kennedy.
It’s an interesting observation, and I see it happening on this blog – common ground that exists between those who love/hate Trump and the diminishing significance of the labels Right and Left. Otherwise, his remarks on Anne Frank and the Holocaust are completely unremarkable – more media gibberish.
Parenting……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOxSWwQ3AI&t=2s
Clapp Park is filled with homeless, houseless, drug addicts ,squatters etc.. whatever you want to call it. One day some curious kids will find the way into that mess. It is a disaster waiting to happen. Distracted parents trying to watch a LL game.
Then and only then will the city react. Governing under crisis all the time, this is solely on the heads of this city. This place is such a Epic Disaster. These two clowns running for Mayor will do nothing to change things. North street and many city parks have fallen to the walking dead. Any hope?
Talk to Councilor Kavey – that’s his ward. He could issue a petition to address adversity in Clapp Park.
That would be like trying to milk a bull, or getting some eggs from a coop of roosters.
Anyone who has a co-op of roosters is gonna have a problem.
coop chicken coop, not co-op/cooperative
Righteeooo. The only one laying eggs here is MT.
AGAIN!!!
Thanks! He went for it!
Kavey’s is more concerned tending to his cow flop haircut, while drinking his Perrier water than what is going on in his ward. A good city councilor would notice the complete disaster at Clapp Park (in fact all the parks and lakes) and would not have to have taxpayers point it out. Does he hold a monthly meeting for taxpayers to meet with him? Do any of the councilors have monthly meetings or are they still using COVID to avoid the taxpayers. Is Covid also the excuse for Flat Tyer to lock most of the doors at City Hall? I do realize Chas that you and Karen do reach out to your constituents but seems like the rest of the do nothings are content staring at their cell phones and trying to avoid any issues they can to shorten the two CC meetings a month. PeePee Petie seems to squash any petitions and it is HIS decision to avoid having them discussed at the CC meetings. The taxpayers of your Ward 2B signed a petition about the loud racing cars back when Morandi was Councilor and it got them nowhere. Petition was totally ignored. I have asked many times, what has this City Clownsil done for the taxpayers during their terms? Also, fine it hard to believe that Dina and PeePeePetie were shocked to learn of the crumbling infrastructure in the public buildings. Are they that stuck on themselves and blinded by their egos to not notice the dilapidated City Hall that represents our city?
Are they also shocked at the condition of the roads? Did all those potholes and ruts just sneak up on them over night?
Nothing is going to change people. You either accept to live with these type of people running your city or you leave. The embedded special interest leadership of Pittsfield is not going to change. It’s just not going to happen. They have shackled themselves to your wallet and you are not going to be able to get rid of them if you stay in Pittsfield. You can choose the Pittsfield quicksand or a new beginning elsewhere. But Pittsfield is what it is and your children deserve better.
Nope.
88% of Democrats will vote Biden as of today higher when the choice is an insurectionist racist.Republicans have dropped to 67% for Trump down from 77%.
The far left would vote for Biden over any Republican candidate including Ron DeSantis.
Oh hell yes.
Or even just the left.
100% of mental patients will vote for crooked Joe.
Are you speaking for everyone on your ward?
Joe Briben
Trump is only running as a get out of jail free card. He could care less about the American people.
You’re getting Trump confused with Biden who needs the get out of jail free card for himself, Hunter, and his brother. Maybe Dr. Jill?
Joe Briben
Not clever at all.
But very accurate
It is so sad Pat. You worship the Donald but he would piss on your shoe in a heartbeat if you were late to one of his rallies. One way love is so sad when one person loves another so much and the other could not care less about the other. They say love is blind and this is one more perfect example.
I worship the truth and Biden and his followers don’t believe in it.
Really? I hope you are never on a jury for a rape trial.
Well put Fizz.
Trump doesn’t plan to put on a defense case in E. Jean Carroll trial, his lawyer says
(so there ya go)
Bill of Rights: proof of guilt is the burden of the accuser. You do not need to say one word in court if it impacts your claim to innocence. That is an ESSENTIAL right.
And it would, clearly, impact his claim to innocence.
It IS a right.
It also suggests you might not have anything to say that would help you prove your innocence. Besides, Donald said on national TV that “they let you grab them by the pussy”. That is not a very good defense in most states.
“It also suggests you might not have anything to say that would help you prove your innocence.”
Again, a defendant does not have the burden of proving his innocence, ever! This point is not a matter of opinion or needing research of any sort. It just is.
You would not want to be the juror who thinks that way about a defendant (“mmm, he doesn’t say he didn’t do it!) As a juror, you would want to put a hard look at the argument of the prosecution, and if the defendant has nothing to say as in, “I am innocent and I will not say anything that may lead you to conclude otherwise”, you should know from common sense and a moral sense what to do. If he is splattered in blood and has the victim’s body parts oh his possession with a history of stomping him, you may be inclined to conclude guilt. Or, if he has no evidence that logically ties to him and the prosecution’s argument makes no sense, you might decide to tell the prosecutor to shove it.
“Besides, Donald said on national TV that “they let you grab them by the pussy”. That is not a very good defense in most states.”
And yet, it does not make a very good case against anyone either. So why would one need a defense?
someone was recently talking about Scientology…I see why
I think that was me. I was alluding to how scientology centers buy towns and use them to launder money and take advantage of tax free opportunities.
Joe Briben # 1
Just following the lead sheep to the slaughter house I see TSC. Anyone who would vote for this current President with his hatred, crimes, high inflation, chaos on the boarder, illogical confused statements must definitely be brainwashed or an idiot.
The far leftists would vote for Biden if he was on life support and/or a convicted criminal. The people voting for him only care about the agenda and getting their freebies.
Following your tin sheep to the slaughterhouse I see the current Prez as a shoe-in.
Briben?
The union contracts are going to bankrupt the City.
Well the city can pay the higher price but they need the backbone to prune the positions
If we had a forensic audit we might find out that Pittsfield has been bankrupt for quite some time. (which is why the mayor and Marchetti are fighting so hard to avoid one)
and Krol ain’t gonna wanna open those books either
Forensic audits are the wrong audits (probably). They do not reveal much beyond theft of public funds such as seen in South County. The corruption you are looking for do not exist in laundered claims.
So they should not look for “theft of public funds in Pittsfield”? Because why?
Working on an answer.
Because the risk of casting darkness where you want light is greater. You cannot do a forensic audit or any investigation without a clear hypothesis.
Regarding maintenance of public buildings, 4 schools have been identified as needing TLC, not sure if restructuring means consolidation?
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/71669/Pittsfield-Panel-Hears-Next-Steps-for-School-Restructuring-Study.html
Why can’t the Springside house be used for city office space?
uh…duh…
The Carousel should be purchased and moved to Springside and the house restored. Parks department offices could be there
Good idea!
GOOD QUESTION!
Can we ask Marchetti that one?
(never mind)
Today is the anniversary of the Kent State massacre. A day I will never forget. It had a profound effect on me.
And in other news! A NYC subway passenger was killed when another passenger pinned his arms, while a second passenger held him down by his shoulders, as a third passenger put him in a chokehold until he went limp and died.
This, while in corrupt Pittsfield the corrupt PPD wants to add yet another deadly weapon to their arsenal of deadly weapons. Jujutsu can be used in a defensive or offensive manner to KILL or subdue a defenseless weaponless opponent. I’m not suggesting that the PPD doesn’t already enjoy police instigated close deadly contact thus ensuring that cops intimately feel the imminent death of their victims as they snuff the life out of them. The PPD has its trigger-happy psychos, and their sadists who prefer to manually inflict pain as they brutalize, violate and suffocate their victims.
How about shooting the perp then use the jitsu on em.
With sociopathic homicidal tendencies like that you’ll rise through the sadistic ranks of LE quickly.
I wish it was just some things one just doesn’t forget. But of course, this isn’t even ancient history. In 2019 a Richard Latura entered the race for city council. You can find this under the heading of ‘Latura Brings ‘NO Filter’ Into Race for City Council /iBerkshires – August 09, 2019
“Richard Latura wants his hometown back the way he remembers it and doesn’t care how that happens — legal or not.”
“I’m too old. I don’t care. I’m just so tired of having so many politicians on that dais that are useless,” Latura said.” OK
“In one neighborhood, Latura said there was drug dealing and other nefarious activity going on right in the middle of the streets and neighbors didn’t want to leave their houses.” Ok
“I opened up my tax bill and almost puked on the dining room table.” OK, I mean, it’s your dining room table, so I really don’t care.
“The city needs to know that you have a handful of councilmen running behind closed doors and making deals,” Latura said. OK
“He believes city officials are grossly overpaid and he’d be pushing to cut salaries.” OK
So, most the shit Latura had to say is the usual shit people say when they’re fed up with their corrupt officials.
Richard admits he had a troubled childhood, as if that’s our fault. Who gives a f*%k!
But then, in my cop hater opinion, Richard goes off the deep end of his insanity.
“Latura said he’d want some offenders to have “accidents” while in police custody.”
Latura went on to say “If you were a real offender, you fall down the stairs a couple of times. It was an accident. But then you fell down the stairs a couple of times. It needs to be done again,” Latura said.
I’m only surprised with this type of psychopathy, the PPD didn’t bypass all the rules and recruit Richard as a special officer to the PPD.
What about Muslimjistu?
Under article III, section 3 , of the US Constitution, Joe Biden is Guilty of treason.
No mater what he did before 2021, with Hunter, China and Ukraine…
“…to protect and defend our borders…. to defend themselves and state against a treasonous government…”
That is Traitor Joe has given “aid and comfort” to a hostile foreign invasion.
He has opened the American borders, AND to a million+ more come May 10th