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ATTHE COLONIAL, A SALUTE TO SEN. MALARKY’s COMBOVER … plus … WANNA CHANGE THINGS REAL FAST IN BITCHFIELD? THE PLANET SHARES THE PLAN

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BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY MARCH 10, 2025) — THE PLANET commends the management of the Colonial Theater for their swift actions following the Dumbocrats Sunday Hootenanny in honor of Sen. Ed Malarkey’s Combover. They hired a fumigator to get rid of the germs so they won’t later affect any innocent theatergoers.

At the event Sunday, speakers touted the politician’s futile attempts to hid his balding dome, calling it a “heroic action in the light of traitorous hair follicles.” A Perry Como Tribute act provided the entertainment.

Consider it Bitchfield’s version of March Madness.

The crowd of luminaries included Jumpin’ Joe Curtis, Tex Behnke, and other figures from the illustrious Bitchfield Sochol Department. Mayor Lumpy was around to hold Malarky’s coat and serve as his footstool. They did a fine job prior to the event filling in Sen. Malarky on the wonderful accomplishments of the local slchoo system:

  • Multiple staffers and administrators suspended, on leave, or put in a Casella trash toter because of a plethora of charges including drug dealing, drug possession, sexual harassment, sexual abuse of children, locking special needs children in bathrooms. THE PLANET shall stop there. We don’t have enough photons to list all the charges.
  • The clearance of two school administrators of creepy charges by the “independent” investigation done for Beaucoup Bucks by a Springfield law firm. Taxpayers can feel good about the bulk purchase of whitewash from Carr Hardware. The school department will be using whitewash by the barrel in  coming weeks and months.
  • The department’s continuing embrace of racist DEI (Didn’t Earn It) policies, which are motivated by acts of segregation based on skin color and sexual “self-identification.”
  • It’s endorsement of LGBTQ+LMNOP “safe spaces” at the expense of educational basics such as reading, writing, science, and math.

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The Kapanskis, who didn’t have the time or energy to attend Sunday’s rally, earlier had noted the soclho committee’s “passing the buck” decision to replace the outgoing Jumpin’ Joe with an interim superintendent.

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“I think it’s not a secret that we will need to adjust the salary for the position in order to attract top candidates,” she said. “We have had a bargain clearance sale price on that position for a long time.” — School committee member Hathaway, on superintendent’s salary

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Here’s what shlooc committee member Miss Jane Hathaway said (Yes, actual quotes): “I think it’s not a secret that we will need to adjust the salary for the position in order to attract top candidates,” she said. “We have had a bargain clearance sale price on that position for a long time.”

Talk about out of touch. Jumpin Joe, with his online diploma and all, pulls down more than $200,000 a year in salary and bennies, and to Miss Jane, that’s “a bargain clearance sale price.” Klewless.

That tells you that this time around, the soolhc committee won’t just rape the Kapanskis, but they’ll drive them out of hearth and home as well. Say what you want, but the price of incompetence–to say nothing of corruption–keeps going up.

THE PLANET‘s spies on the inside say the FIRST PRIORITY of the new superintendent will be to keep his or her (only two sexes, remember) mouth shut when it comes to the massive fraud that is the slohco department.

You want to know how to change things real fast? Elect four citizens of “common sense” to the school committee and begin cleaning house. It can be done. Make a note of this: THE PLANET recommends a slate of four right-minded candidates to run for the positions later this year. They will be properly funded and, when elected, will begin clearing the debris from the train wreck.

So who wants to run? If you do, we can get you elected.

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It took me 15 years discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous” — Peter Benchley.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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Mr. Fritz
Mr. Fritz
20 days ago

Markey a.k.a. Mr. Frosty – driving the clown car through Pittsfield. This guy is such a loser, and dumber than a brick. Anyone showing up for this turd should have their head examined.
Posting this column penned by Howie Carr in Dec. 2022;

https://howiecarrshow.com/ed-markey-twitter-windmill/

Joetaxpayer
Joetaxpayer
Reply to  Mr. Fritz
20 days ago

Mr. Fritz , not to be a stickler, but bricks actually have a purpose, Markey not so much.

Mr. Fritz
Mr. Fritz
Reply to  Joetaxpayer
20 days ago

I agree!!

The school committee
The school committee
Reply to  Mr. Fritz
20 days ago

Trumps doing fantastic

Northway
Northway
Reply to  The school committee
20 days ago

Hope you’re not planning on retiring soon!

Merry & Bright
Merry & Bright
20 days ago

Finding it amazing that since the latest Pittsfield scohol issue at Stearns that not one public comment has been made by the voted in City Administrators! In “normal” cities the Mayor would hold a press conference. Where is Lumpy? No comments from President Porkchop or any of the useless City Council members? What about any of the dumb as rocks School Committee members?

My question on this is who is telling them all to keep their mouths shut? There has to be someone above Lumby telling them to shut up. Is it still Ruberto, Clairmont or someone else or are they just lazy, don’t care, or afraid of going against the clique and the good ole boys?

They all need to be voted out. None of them are representing the voters and taxpayers. We need a whole Council made up of members that mimic those that tried to help in the past like Mazzeo, Morandi, Connell, and Sir Chas, at least they attempted to change the City’s screwups. Then again they had President Lumpy throwing hissy fits and shutting them down constantly.

Why is Lumpy so afraid to fire Curtis, or afraid to fire Morales for the terrible condition of the public works department? Does it stem from the mess he is still in at Pitts Coop? Is he afraid of another lawsuit against him? Whatever, this secretive behavior needs to stop, hardworking taxpayers DESERVE transparency from the people they elect.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  Merry & Bright
20 days ago

*Sarcasm* I asked Sara Hathaway if the Pittsfield Public School District is the definition of ROCK BOTTOM. She replied by saying that it is only 2nd to Jimmy Ruberto’s Rolodex.

Pat
Pat
20 days ago

If $200,000.00 is just chump change for Miss Jane Hathaway, we can only imagine her upscale lifestyle. She should try living on the salaries that the majority of Pittsfield people live on from the lack of opportunities due to incompetent Democratic leadership. When the majority of schoolkids live below the poverty line in Pittsfield, Miss Jane should be more concerned about the huge disparity of income between school personnel and the rest of the city. The Democrats say they are all about equality so they should start with spending less money on school personnel salaries and benefits so they can prepare students to pull themselves out of poverty. As we have seen, high salaries are not a guarantee of having qualified and ethical teachers and administrators in the Pittsfield school system.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  danvalenti
20 days ago

Sara Hathaway:

She said: “Pittsfield is a junkie for state aid”.

She said: “Violent crime in Pittsfield is an aberration”.

She said: “I will bring a breath of fresh air to Pittsfield politics”.

She wants to increase the school public pay plus perks for the new Superintendent without factoring in the looming fiscal year 2026 municipal budget spending increases.

Around one decade ago, she walked away with an undisclosed financial settlement from the city from her sex and age discrimination case as a teacher whose employment was wrongly terminated, but then reinstated, along with several other middle aged woman teachers back then. I/we are sorry for her loss.

She correctly warned Pittsfield in the early-2000’s that Jimmy Ruberto was a fraud snake oil salesman, but a broken clock is correct twice per day.

She knows all too well about Pittsfield’s Good Old Boy network, but she once worked as a legislative aide for the disgraced State Senator Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior, who is Pittsfield’s millionaire political brat who persecuted me – Jon Melle – for a little less than the past 29 years of my adult life.

She served one 2-year term as the Mayor of Pittsfield, but she came off as socially unfriendly *RUDE* and out-of-touch with the local people and taxpayers. It cost her the political career she wanted in Pittsfield politics.

She writes political letters endorsing local political candidates, including her endorsement of Peter Marchetti for Mayor of Pittsfield in 2023, despite the allegation(s) made by Pittsfield Co-op Bank terminated employee Victoria May that when Peter Marchetti was her bank manager, he allegedly called Victoria May “a BITCH”.

She proudly stands with the LGBTQ…crowd in politics.

She sits on the Pittsfield School Committee, which along with the other elected officials in Pittsfield, said that they “no’s nuttin”” about all of the alleged scandals in the city’s public schools.

She is NOT a native of Pittsfield, but she has worked her way into the city’s governmental institutions for around the past quarter-century.

She is the subject of political writings, blogs, commentary, and the like, because she is a shameless political hack in Pittsfield politics.

Jon Melle

Eric Swansin
Eric Swansin
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
19 days ago

Johnny you say horrible things about Sara Hathaway but she stood by you when you and your ex Peter White ended your relationship. She also was a big backer of your Gay White Guys 4 Harris campaign. You should apologize to her.

Pat
Pat
20 days ago

Ed Markey is such a phony just like Liz Warren and all the other Democrats. Calling President Trump the king at the Colonial? The Democrat party is the king in this area. The Democrats keep the majority of the people poor and lacking in opportunities intentionally to get power and money for themselves. The Democrats live like kings and queens and we are their serfs.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Pat
20 days ago

It doesn’t make any difference that Trump is not a Fascist, or Hitler or a NAZI or any other distraction from the truth. The Marxists are trying to get the Shock Value from making such declarations. Only the weak minded are controlled by the Marxists ‘Jedi Mind Control’ trick. The words from the Marxists are simply another attempt to try and distinguish them from the people they claim are evil. While it is the Marxists who seek to control every
aspect of their lives.

son of warranhontas
son of warranhontas
Reply to  Pat
20 days ago

Have you seen your water bill lately Pat. And your property tax proposed increase? Or the Shitty roads AGAIN ?

son of warranhontas
son of warranhontas
Reply to  Pat
20 days ago

Or your Toter blowing down the street overfilled and lid astrewn.

Thomas Betit
Thomas Betit
Reply to  Pat
20 days ago

Imperialism is alive and well in taxatwoshits.
It will be on life support before the midterm elections.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
20 days ago

Monday, March 10, 2025

Hello blogger Dan Valenti,

I read two news articles about Maryland Markey’s visit to the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield (Mass.) yesterday (Sunday) afternoon.

I actually agree with what Senator Ed Markey had to say about Donald Trump’s extremism in The White House. Millions of people in Massachusetts and beyond will get hurt by Trump’s federal spending cuts to essential government programs and services.

I recently read that in Trump’s first 48 days as U.S. President in 2025, his golf outings costed federal taxpayers $18.2 million, which is an average of $2.7 million per day. Trump’s own actions shows that he does not lead by example.

It frustrated me to read that the Democratic Berkshire Legislators Paul Mark, Leigh Davis, Tricia Farley-Bouvier and John Barrett III all attended the so-called grassroots political rally because Boston has done little to nothing in terms of changing the government with the state legislative inaction in state government.

Pittsfield Mayor Peter Marchetti said that Trump’s federal spending cuts are impacting local government, but like his aforementioned counterparts in Boston, he has not changed the way the city and Group 11, Level 5 public school district budgets and spends taxpayer dollars.

To be clear, despite Maryland Markey’s lofty words, the local, state and federal career politicians are not changing the government for the benefit of the common people because they are all out of touch and disconnected from the “Jon Melle’s from Pittsfield”; (I live in Amherst, New Hampshire, but “THE PITTS” is my native hometown), along with the fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family.

I believe that either way – whether it is Trump or Markey, neither I nor the fictional Kapanski’s benefit/win due to the government’s many DISSERVICES that I feel make a systemic mockery of the common people such as myself. I feel like I, along with the fictional Kapanski’s, are conditioned to be the elite’s financial fools on many levels, while the likes of greedy lobbyist Dan Bosley, who is very intelligent about government operations an financial management, profits off it.

Lastly, as was previously pointed out, it is supposed to be illegal for political events to take place at the Colonial Theater, but last Summer 2024, Kamala Harris spoke and raised millions of dollars there, and yesterday, Ed Markey headlined the anti-Trump rally there.

Jon Melle

Karl Kapanski
Karl Kapanski
Reply to  Jonathan A. Melle
20 days ago

Why don’t you keep my family’s name out of your communist mouth. The Kapanski’s are hard working taking your lunchbox to work type of people. You are part of the lazy unemployed sit on your ass and complain crowd. Our clans don’t mix. Stick to your own type of people bums and communist democrats.

Optimus Prime
Optimus Prime
Reply to  Karl Kapanski
20 days ago

There is a draw to gubment dependency, the trading of freedom for comfort.
Heard a broadcast the other day. Including Transfer Payments, the poor make as much as someone middle-class. Nice gig if you can get
it.

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Optimus Prime
20 days ago

I haven’t met a poor person raking in dough. I’m guessing it’s rich people stealing from the pot.

Jonathan A. Melle
Jonathan A. Melle
Reply to  Karl Kapanski
20 days ago

I am on the Kapanski’s side, especially when it comes to Pittsfield politics.

Flogging Molly
Flogging Molly
20 days ago

Email address for Dan Valenti? Know someone that wants to reach out to him/you offline?

Brad Pittsfield
Brad Pittsfield
20 days ago

The highlight of the event was watching the buffoon brothers, Markey and Dennis Powell dance.

Coulio Headstart
Coulio Headstart
Reply to  Brad Pittsfield
20 days ago

He wasn’t wearing that filthy baseball cap was he?

Lenny
Lenny
20 days ago

The Colonial event attendees reflect the influence that the left-wing Berkshire Eagle and mainstream news have upon people with no critical thinking skills. We have a president who stands for peace, while these democrat voters apparently support war (hypocrite Jon Mele). While Trump & Musk pare back big government, fraud & waste, the Markeyites want the spending sprees to continue.

Saw this quote on Instagram: “Imagine being mad at two guys who don’t take a salary for exposing the people who steal your hard earned money while taking a salary.”

Thus the idiocy of the Colonial crew. No common sense!

DB
DB
Reply to  Lenny
20 days ago

How does a 501c3 like the colonial host a political rally? The IRS rules say a 501c3 can’t directly or indirectly be involved in politics.

Thomas Betit
Thomas Betit
Reply to  DB
20 days ago

Rules ?laws ? Demonrats dont need no stinkin rules.
The commonwealth practices judicial imperialism, rules only apply to the peasants we fleece.

Much like Robert’s and Barrett, how do lawyers whov never litigated, become judges? It’s like a professional swimmer who’s never been in the water…
Those who can do, those who cant teach.

Their pettiness is affecting their judgement, further delegitimizing the courts.

Free Bird
Free Bird
Reply to  DB
18 days ago

When an individual raised that question in a comment to an I Berkshires article on the subject he was bullied by two leftists and called “stupid “.That seems to be how the left operates these days, he was told they can rent the facility to whoever they want. Seems to me that falls under “indirectly”.

Coulio Headstart
Coulio Headstart
Reply to  Lenny
20 days ago

I find it amazing the Colonial is being used for any political rally?

The school committee
The school committee
20 days ago

Hows Trump doing?lol….What a mess.Trump said he knew nothing about project 2025.THATS true.You all bought in to a crazy clown…Lets watch democracy die together ,this makes you all smile.

RJ
RJ
Reply to  The school committee
20 days ago

TDS

Tess Duh
Tess Duh
Reply to  The school committee
20 days ago

What was the option?

Tess Duh
Tess Duh
Reply to  The school committee
20 days ago

Trump and Musks businesses being terrorized and destroyed.

Tess Duh
Tess Duh
Reply to  Tess Duh
19 days ago

Tesla lost 800 billion this quarter.

Ron Kitterman
Ron Kitterman
20 days ago

Why not try a professional headhunter, or more commonly known as executive recruiter, to find talent that meets our job requirements. I know there just isn’t anyone out there that will do it for the trivial sum of $200,000 a year….

Dan brings up an excellent point on finding four common sense candidates for the School Committee too.

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Ron Kitterman
20 days ago

You would fit the ticket.

Sir Chaz
Sir Chaz
Reply to  Sir Chaz
19 days ago

Its 4 to run. Fewer and it’s no-go. No point if fewer. Protest/minority presence on your elected bodies give legitimacy to them.

Brad Pittsfield
Brad Pittsfield
Reply to  Ron Kitterman
19 days ago

After a nationwide search they’ll hire a gobsig poluka

Thomas Betit
Thomas Betit
20 days ago

Mayor Lumpy
Let cat out of the bag, ” make sure our Grant’s are in compliance ”

Both Taconic and Wahconah grants are fraudulent- being granted to increase vocational education. Both schools decreased size and scope of vocational education- Trump / Doge is going to be reimbursed? All grant allotments.
DOJ already drafting subpoenas-
Moran Healey wanted Trumps attention, she has it.

The hunted are now the hunters, malarkey at least appears same, pocahontas is panicked ( fraudulent applications as minority) as to her corruption.

Justice is coming fast, hard and deep.

Ghost of Pearl Bergoff
Ghost of Pearl Bergoff
20 days ago

They are hiding the names from Stearns because that teacher and staff will 100% be let back into the classroom with unfounded allegations

Just like Molly “Kyle’s Prom Date” West
Ali “The Beaver” Shepherd

Just contact Sara Luciani, she’s the principal and in charge of this tomfoolery. As the Eagle article says, it’s an “INCLUSIVE” classroom with MULTIPLE TEACHERS and MULTIPLE SUPPORT STAFF

Keep this in mind when they scream about cutting teaching jobs. You can have 100 teachers in a room, but if they are this incompetent it’s meaningless.

NAME THE TEACHERS JOE

Flogging Molly
Flogging Molly
19 days ago

Here go. Check out the following item on the City Clowncil agenda.

A petition from Councilor Costa requesting the council support a resolution declaring the City of Pittsfield a Sanctuary City for transgender and gender diverse people

Agent 86
Agent 86
Reply to  danvalenti
19 days ago

What does it actually do?

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Agent 86
19 days ago

It proves the city council is a collection of buffoons.

Lenny
Lenny
Reply to  Flogging Molly
19 days ago

Wow. No words. Saw the footage from Worcester when they passed the same thing – this is outrageous.

Ghost of Pearl Bergoff
Ghost of Pearl Bergoff
Reply to  Flogging Molly
19 days ago

Hitting on those tough issues as always!

I hope the Feds cut our funding. it will only hurt Shirley Edgarton

Gobsig
Gobsig
Reply to  Flogging Molly
19 days ago

It’s certainly not a sanctuary city for taxpayers

Northway
Northway
Reply to  Flogging Molly
18 days ago

She’s out of touch.

Ghost of Pearl Bergoff
Ghost of Pearl Bergoff
19 days ago

Sara Luciani won the 40 under 40 award a few years ago

She’s not only in charge of Stearns, but she’s definitely making a difference in the Berkshires. Always knew those awards were pointless and given to a bunch of slap assers. Pretty sure the CEO of the YMCA who’s besties with LAdyzMan Wiggins and the other pedo won this year

Good job Christian!

Gimmee More
Gimmee More
Reply to  Ghost of Pearl Bergoff
19 days ago

Will Marchetti lock me in a bathroom if I can’t pay my next mega installment of property taxes? Cuz some of us might not get there this time.

Gobsig
Gobsig
19 days ago

Do trans women need prostate exams?

Brad Pittsfield
Brad Pittsfield
19 days ago

Transfats can rest easy in Pittsfield. Wimpy White is happy.