BITCHFIELD’s ‘DILEMMA OF THE DESTITUTE’
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY JULY 9, 2025) — In the recent debate that has official Pittsfield tied in donned knots, THE PLANET has noticed how so many referr to the “houseless.” Perhaps it’s part of Peter White syntactical delusion of “houselessness.”
When you have more than one word for seemingly similar things, there’s a difference. You can walk, amble, traipse, march, skip, glide, saunter, stagger, and more, and each will describe difference forms of ambulatory conveyance. Another example: nostalgic is not the same as wistful. Another example: Misapplying “structural” as an adjective to dress up ignorance.
So what gives with “homeless” vs. “houselessness?”
THE PLANET suggests that it’s part of penchant for loon liberals to co-opt meaning by their unilateral redefining of common terms–“diversity, equity, and inclusion,” for instance, which they take to mean “uniformity, discrimination, and exclusion.”
Looking closer at “homeless/houseless,” we find the two root words: home v. house.
“Home,” as poet Robert Frost wrote, is the place where when you go there, they’ve got to take you in. Home implies a relationship between people, usually family and friends. It’s a place where you belong. It has the ring of care, compassion, and welcome. “House,” on the other hand, indicates a physical structure and little else. A couple purchases a “house” that they then convert to a “home,” assuming they proceed with love. With “houselessness,” there’s little relationship in buildings–low cost housing, shelters–built on desperation and anonymity. It not only wastes taxpayers money but produces buildings with horrible Feng shui. That reality centers Bitchfield’s dilemma of the destitute.
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Downtown business owners squared off against homeless advocates at a recent meeting of the council’s ordinance and rules committee. They talked AT not TO each other, but there’s one thing everyone agrees upon. The homeless crisis–an umbrella terms encompassing those without shelter, the mentally ill, vagrants, addicts, and assorted others who have fallen through the cracks, some because of crack–indicates a breakdown, one that’s getting worse. Add to the problem is the presence of a growing number of scum. There’s no other word. They infect the system and the city and ignore their own humanity.
Pittsfield latest “houseless” shelter, right smack in the middle of downtown.
“Houseless” advocates point to a societal breakdown, wanting to blame capitalism or heartlessness of “the haves.” What truth the claim has is mitigated, however, by the matter of individual choice.
At some point in a life, people must grow up and take responsibility for themselves … or not. Do I stay in school or do I party? Do I follow the crowd to irresponsibility or do I stand on my own two feet? Do I let a troubled upbringing and choices made by others destroy my adult life? Do I drink to excess or take drugs or decide against it? Do I play the victim or do I rise above circumstances. If I’m addicted, do I make a free-will choice to kick it? If I’m able to work, do I have a job?
Bad choices lead to bad lives. Simple as that.
And not as simple as that.
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Both sides in the debate on homelessness seem to be acting with the presumption that there is An Answer.
There is no Answer.
City officials–Mayor Lumpy, the council, the school department, and socohlxlwdl committee–have shrunk like a $25 suit left out in the rain. The mayor called his ordinance a “communication starter.” You can’t get more milk-sopped. Help, Help Me Rhonda Serre Sucker dithered and dathered in a kiddie’s pool of cliches. Not one official took a stand, one way or the other, leaving the issue twisting in a gale. Michael Hitchcock, co-director of Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds, made the most cogent of the night: the “community conversation cannot take place in three-minute increments.” Three minutes, though, is all Lumpy, Voltron, and the rest of the idiots will allow.
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
“LOVE TO ALL.”
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One word: Underclass
At first, I thought you wrote “No Class,” and were talking about Bitchfield Mayor Lumpy, CC Prez Wimpy White, Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (d-illegal aliens), and former Picklefield mayor Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont, but then I read it again.
Speaking of Flat and TFCB, how come those two are never interviewed by the press about the “houseless” problem? They basically created this current mess with “grant money,” during COVID to take on these bums from the Boston area and beyond.
They – the Mayor Openly Gay, former Mayor Gated Community, Rep. TFCB, Voltron, and so on – certainly do NOT lead by example in their pseudo-support for the homeless and panhandlers residents of Pittsfield!
Matters keep getting WORSE! They keep cashing-in on their public pay plus perks.
Over the weekend I attended two 4th parties , similar stories at both. One was a business owner that had a stack of job applications in his car and would drive up to the intersection and offer to start the next day. No experience needed the would be using a shovel. The other was similar but the interesting part of the first person’s story was a different twist. This is all hearsay so it may or may not be true but there is a van that drops these intersection beggars off in the morning and picks them up in the afternoon to collect a fee of what they take in. Both persons had similar advise to offer the Mayor and councilors that passing an ordinance wouldn’t work. But, I do like the starting a conversation idea, It’s just that the conversation was started 20 years ago.
I do believe the pan handlers do have a pimp. If someone who checks cameras took the time they might find evidence of what you speak.
Dart & tag them.
Reality is the federal money that came to states has now been transferred to the disgusting billionaires instead of the American people who work for slave wages,those facts must be understood before the collaspe of city and town budgets.Get ready berkshire towns as you are going to fail.The towns have zero wiggle room to deal with whats coming after the 2026 elections.Pittsfield has never had the smarts to be able to identify the tornado about to hit.Pittsfield leader will still invest 30 million in a shitty baseball field nobody care about never mind the floods.
Donald Trump and Project 2025:
Throw the poor people off of the cliff.
Feed the working poor people to the Wolves.
Slap a sales tax disguised as tariffs on imported products that will economically harm the middle-class and small businesses.
Let the poor students starve so they cannot learn at their Level 5, Group 11 public schools.
Maura Healey for U.S. President in 2028:
Good Job, Governor Maura Healey, for advocating for federal funding for public education!
https://www.wcvb.com/article/healey-trump-108m-school-funding-withheld-massachusetts/65317114
Jon Melle
There is a book that I have yet to buy “Intellectual Morons”- it explains why so many supposed educated people like yourself have a hard time with reality.
Re tariffs: we called the dependency on cheap imports to make low income expectations ‘work’ with no exports (foreign trade partners tariffing us at 100% rates) the Race To The Bottom. It looks like you won the race.
During Covid shipping breakdown, the world’s trade traffic was stuck parked hundreds of miles off US ports. All incoming, not much going out. Lesson: if we can’t make anything, we better learn how.
TSC, we know you never let a fact or facts get in the way of your liberal agenda, but the only states that need to worry about losing federal funding, are the blue states and cities that continue to offer “sanctuary status” to illegal aliens.
President Trump took illegal aliens off Medicaid, so now states like MA and CA, can pay for their medical expenses. That includes Bitchfield too.
MA, speaking of illegals getting kicked off Medicaid.
The vast majority of the people who are being tossed off of Medicaid fall into two broad groups: illegal aliens and working-age men who refuse to get a job, get an education, or even volunteer at least 20 hours a week doing something useful. Rag Media and democrats just keep mentioning millions will lose Medicaid with out mentioning exactly who is losing it and why. I think the money saved should go to fund even more care for vets, elderly, the truly
disabled etc..
You are a radical far right wing FOX viewer
Watch FOX and live the dream of consumer tarrifs taxes for the billionaires
Marchetti, just like that Tyer character, will continue to drain what little they can still find from the senior population which is much needed for both their pensions and to subsidize the millionaire class business community.
Pete White, whose job it is to balance out an imbalanced mayoral agenda, has been compromised. Like, since before he got the position. Do not hold your breath waiting for him to stand up for the people as he promised when he mumbled the oath. He was just joking when he recited that.
Intelligence is the ability to cite various facts.
Wisdom is the ability to know which ones reflect
the truth of the matter..
So do it
So tell us the facts
Didn’t realize all the POC’s, queers and typical DEI people are billionaires, pretty sure THAT’s where Linda allocated 99% of the money. Warren Dews never ate so well in his pudgy life.
Dan:
Not one official took a stand, one way or the other, leaving the issue twisting in a gale.
Simply put, that’s the difference between managing problems and solving them. Politicians favor the former. That’s why everyone hates
them..
House assessment went up over 60 G. Was Dan in the neighborhood and autograph my mailbox or something. Because I didn’t. have any improvements?
I swear I did not, and have not, autographed any mailboxes in Bitchfield. And I’ll hire a cheap lawyer and argue that in any court of law and disorder. The only thing I’ve signed a lot of lately is books!
Property taxes are another thing. State governments, particularly in blue states, use them for “public services” with expanded meaning such as “community programs.” The biggest ripoff is failing public schools. Taxes rarely if ever go down, particulary under Democrat rule. We pay a lot of money to buy and keep up a property, but it’s never really ours since it can be confiscated for not paying the yearly “rent” called property taxes.
And when they take it, they take your equity. You’re done.
When the state lottery first came out it ran into opposition. So they sold it as a means to reduce property taxes, in fact, saying it may ELIMINATE property taxes, and the expected revenue would provide all school funding statewide going forward.
Fast forward 50 years and we see the state lottery taking in billions more than they ever imagined in their wildest dreams. But strangely enough, taxpayer contributions to school funding were never lowered and in fact went up exponentially, a 180 degree opposite result of how this lottery was rolled out..Imagine that. Did they lie or did local politicians see it as a way to increase their budgets with all kinds of goodies that were never seen as necessary before? Maybe both? But either way it is a scandal of epic proportions.
Unaudited black holes are a vehicle used to drain taxpayers of their money with no accountability. After all it is for the children.
The same children who are not entitled to an open honest accounting of potential dangers in their schools or painted crosswalks for their personal safety.
Excellent post, MEAN. They lied. They’re lying now. They will continue to lie. That’s what government does, especially government in Massachusetts, double especially government in Bitchfield.
I don’t remember exactly, but we were told that $$ raised through the lottery would go into a specific account for what you mentioned, but I think they put the money into general funds so they could get their hands on it to spend as they saw fit.
They said the same for pot taxes. And then Miilionaire taxes.
The hunt for the Tax to end all taxes never ends.
The red states are where its at.
If you painted the railings on your porch because the paint was peeling that is considered an improvement and justifys the auditor to upgrade the value of your home. I am afraid to mow my lawn for fear someone from the city will drive by and report that my property has been improved and upgraded.
Everyone in the city should view a copy of their property report to make sure the city is not taxing them for a swimming pool or monster deck they do not have. Guarantee some of you will find you are being taxed for improvements you do not have. Is that 50 year old rusty metal shed in your back yard really worth 20,000?
Send them back to Greenfield common,where they came from. ?
In 2020 – after they defrauded? Got exorbitant funding from Briben Autopen ?
This is how NGOs administers, who are political hacks/ activists, fleece the taxpayers.
https://www.masslive.com/news/2018/08/greenfield_homeless_people_pac.html
They arrived at Springside park , just in time for Nipples Harrington , Adam Hinds
and droolretard Kennedy photo opportunity.
Bringing them a 1/2 gallon of spoiled milk and crate of moldy yogurt.
How’d they know they were coming?
Who paid for milk?
Did Nipples drive herself ( in car she stole from a minority mother?
Qui bono ( who benefit’s ?) from homelessness, opioid addiction and prosecution/ prostitution, of the less fortunate.
How many adjustment homes( 21 day rehab suites) does Angablo Straccuzi own, and the other beautiful Berkshireites. ?
I think we all know where milk comes from theteet.
Andrea was pretty rotten, you may be onto something….
Dan
Seems the Propaganda Parrot has removed, nipples, drooliards and took it in Hindys , photo op pic from google.
You got a copy to post?
Thanks
Tom
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/archives/dalton-man-allegedly-threatened-law-enforcement-mcveigh-style/article_998dfeaa-6ce2-5431-8418-3372b60e7d44.html
Dan
Why do you censor? It’s a violation of chapter 230( more on that soon! ).
Seems your controlled opposition, to the propaganda parrot.
Routinely editing, censoring posters to protect your intimidators( what are they hanging over your freedom?)
Your the Turtledope of western Massachusetts, the Berkshires deserves better.
When can we debate on WTBR ?
I’m , looking forward to my Matt Boyle- Tucker interviews to air soon- like Turtledope you lack of integrity, courage and intellect, your going to get exposed as simply a controlled political hack.
Mo different than rest of fake news.
Shame
You could have been famous, but your credentialism , comprised your integrity.
Tom
Tom aka the mini wanna be uni Bomber.. Dude you should still be in the pokey or the nut house on floor 7
Case fell apart , like most falsified cases do.
Mr Tird
facts matter
think this may qualify as witness intimidation- be in touch soon 🙂
4:25 7/8/2025
Tom
Mr Tird
and Scared planet Dan
Douglas Mackey acquitted today , by 2nd district appeals court.
In case you missed it ,
Killerys Injustice department, convicted him with no evidence.
kinda same as turtle dope and dan being intimidated into silence.
larry
seeing the pattern yet?
the courts and corrupt prosecutors are the problem:)
Refer to William Shakespeare 1591 King Henry- you may need to find an adult, to read it to you.
Has some big words.
Nearly 450 years, 2 American wars & nothing has changed.
Look at the disaster the judiciary, has created in Brazil recently.
Before Bolsonaro is convicted, them Portuguese be hanging judges off of bridges, backstops and trees –
current events….
In case you also failed American History, American revolution and Civil wars were caused by corrupt judges.
seems a pattern….
Perhaps study jerimy Bentham
John Adams client, or Dred Scottt
Given your ignorance, their cases were the reasons , for both above mentioned wars.
Try educating yourself, ignoring fake news and growing a spine , so you don’t post as an anonymous coward.
Tom
7/9/25@12:15
Folks, at least he uses his real name!
Dan
Only the trolls, dishonest and criminal- hide their identities.
I got nothing to hide, fear or be embarrassed by.
Unlike yourself and your cowardly followers.
7/11/25 @ 2:15 pm
Dan
Very courageous of you to let my post run 2-1/2 days late.
Only after you put up another, worthless screed- about theatre, musicals or sports, all of which you were too weak and cowardly to participate in.
My sons excelled in sports
Football, baseball wrestling, taekwondo – in addition to piano , chorus , theater ( Appolanian players , Berkshire theater group – both Pittsfield and Stockbridge.
Bongino quit Famous But Incompetent,Wednesday to bring Epstein clients to justice.
Obviously, you are either
Intimidated by – Nilan 2012 ?
Involved in ? Williams – Miss halls , phs , how did bcc elude exposure.
Or support – chuck ?
Marcus , Caccaviello, capeless, bowler , massimiano
Daniel ford…?
Our local pedophiles , in power got you scared- that’s no way to do journalism.
Tom
Folks, read it for yourself! Even AI can’t produce this type of “prose!” and “thinking” … We do, however, thank the correspondent for using his real name.
Credentislism?
Credentialism
auto correct shortened , fast thumb
oops
Dan Valenti
why did you censor, my previous reply to Larry Tird?
pittsfield distracted court , still “ silencing the planet” ?
One little Restraining order issued from a corrupt Dei hire district court judge ( Sebrina Garcia Vega ) .
Now your the fake news , local politicians accessory?
In case you missed the news , Brian Mackey 1st amendment case , in retaliation for his Killery meme – judge got bench slapped by 2nd district court.
With an order to Dismiss, for no Evidence!
Your no Turtleboy, in fact your a Fox fake news , embarrassment to journalism.
Tom
7/9/25@11:40
TOM
Well, there’s no conspiracy afoot, THE PLANET can assure.
Thanks for the post.
FWIW, I believe that censoring is something that government agencies do. Content providers edit content.
cuckoo cuckoo
We need to bring back the Ccc from the great depression era. These people need their dignity and the only eay to get it is through work.
One of the social service providers said at the meeting last Monday night that she was piloting the biggest indignity to our poor people, a pilot program in which she would compensate the labor of people in the homeless shelter but only with a gift card.
Gift cards exacerbate poverty.
When you give a poor person a gift card they have no liquidity and no option to diversify.
So if you want to put five bucks in a card for somebody in your family who’s graduating or has a birthday you can’t do that.
You can’t make sure your kid has a couple of bucks in their pocket when they’re hanging out with their friends.
And most importantly you can’t peel off 5 or 10 dollars and start a savings account and start building towards your future.
All of your assets are on that one piece of plastic so if you lose it you’re screwed.
People have been standing around town holding signs for years telling us exactly what they need—cash.
That we continually withhold,stigmatize, and shame people because they don’t have a cash flow is incredibly cruel.
As for our homeless, some of them have been the victims of a bait and switch so many times that they are refusing work because they don’t want to be locked into something like a gift card, and there is no guarantee that the guy who pulls up in the van in the morning and says I have work for you today is going to pay you in folding money, or even pay you at all.
Many people I know who receive gift cards when that balance gets down to around a dollar they just discard it.
Who gets that unspent money? The corporation that issued the gift card gets it, and if you think it’s just nickels and dimes let’s do a thought experiment:
Let’s say everybody in Pittsfield, that’s about 40,000 people, is holding a gift card with a balance of 99 cents on it, and oh whatever reason or no reason at all is not inclined to carry around that to plastic that is now worth more as a piece of plastic than as a financial instrument and let’s that 99 cents go what’s 40,000 * 99?
That ain’t chump change.
Obviously the example I give your I’m giving really for simplicity stage because the likelihood of an entire town etc etc but you see the point I’m trying to make here is that the gift card companies that are already established financial institutions charge your feet to activate those cards and then reabsorb any unused if money is left on them because they can’t be rolled over.
Now imagine if our and homeless friends and neighbors were paid with a check (which is difficult for some people because they don’t have IDs)or with cash.
How much of this money would stay here in our community and hopefully eventually become part of our tax base.
Gift card programs are just another way of shaming and stigmatizing poor people and keeping them silent because what do you have to bitch about; you got some money.
But you really don’t.
The idea that poor people cannot manage money is utterly ridiculous
The amount of money we manage over the course of a month and remember, the poor people month is only 18 to 22 days long because there’s always more month than money, it’s not something to be ignored.
Maybe you’ve seen signs around town this time of year in the store windows are by the registers that say we will not accept sock money for bra money.
Sock money and bra money is one way that poor people protect their assets so that everything is not in one place like it is on a gift card.
It is how poor people diversify to protect their assets. So if the cash falls out of your bra or somebody snatches the money you have in your purse or pull out of your pocket, you are not completely bereft of funds.
Clearly there’s no guarantee that eradicating gift card programs we’ll have an immediate and noticeable impact on local and regional economies but it would be interesting to try gift card versus non-giftcard programs and the impact on local economies over 5 years because I believe the positive financial impact would be significant.
So many people are going to have reasons why we should continue giving poor people gift cards but the question we should be asking ourselves in attempting to answer here is not how to justify continuing gift card programs but what happens if we don’t discontinue them?
More of the same I fear.
I’m still waiting for the “Houseless Report,” that CC Prez Wimpy White promised all the voters during the 2018 election cycle. He was going to author a report and report back to the taxpayers.
It’s 2025, now almost seven years later and Wimpy White doesn’t have it completed. Probably never even started it. Just empty campaign promises from an inept “leader.”
C’mon Wimpy.
Put away your Papa Smurf costume, put down Han Solo’s blaster, and author that “houseless report you promised us.
Be the stand-up city official and do your job, you know, that you got ELECTED TO DO.
Bring back depression era civilian conservation corps.
Bring back CETA!
Right. Dan? What is the city hired auditor doing sitting next to Kufflinks during the finance committee meeting? Conversing? Scanlon works for the taxpayer no? This guy is a piece of garbage. All he is,Kufflinks tool for any bad mistakes. I hope this Michael Hitchcock drags this homeless issue through the summer. Let the mo fakers sit in two hour three minute session.
I agree about Michael Hitchcock. Put aside for a moment his stance(s) everyone, and the reasonable assessment is that Michael has “A Pair,” he is passionate, and he’s putting it on the line, in the trenches. He’s one of THE PLANET’s rare honorees, aka, a Supercitizen.
That’s an independent auditor alright.
Just like Pete White is allowed to think with his own brain. And I don’t know which is worse, when he does think with his own brain or when he uses his city special interest provided brain.
Always better when he uses his brain. Even an average brain us serviceable.
Dan. Nites ? So the a r pa fund produced over 800 g interest? Guess where that goes?
Perhaps they should rerelease the list of folk who received that money and their positions in the city in relationship to the mayor of that time?
It may be in a hidden file with the school scandal unless of course that one has been shredded so many times it is now dust in the wind.
Greenagers
Greenagers = AmeriCorps.
That sounds like a lot of jobs for for point hair gov administrators. I’m maxed out with taxes. Can’t afford anymore.
Most jobs don’t require skills beyond reading and the ability to pick something up and put it back down where it belongs. I’d refer them to the unemployment offices who have listings.
Have you noticed the tens of thousands of dollars the mayor has invested in planters, bushes, trees and flowers to beautify his city?
And have you noticed that some of the crosswalks have not been painted in years? Check out Seymour street. Had a woman walk out in front of me a couple of days ago and I just shook my head. Until I noticed there was actually an almost unseeable crosswalk she was walking in. Seymour street has many of these. the whole city does.
The city talks a big talk when someone gets hit by a ca and wants to spend millions to restructure a roadway. But for whatever reason, painting crosswalks is very low on their safety agenda. Why is that? Seriously. Why is that Pete White? Could you maybe take a few grand from the flower account and paint some crosswalks so that maybe one less kid gets hit?
Those flowers are there so they are handy if someone does get hit. It is quicker to put up a memorial if your flowers are right on sight. Its actually genius by the city.
I was brought up to believe that I was responsible for my own fate.
Well, those days are over. The
rise of “welfare rights” thinking,
the notion that everyone is owed
a decent living regardless of effort.
Of course, there are people in genuine need who require our support. But those who can work and who refuse to do so need to face a reward structure that favors work.
Why is Nick Russo doing his crosswalk on it on Tyler Street where we’ve had one fatality instead of on the west side and 2nd Street where in the last two years we’ve had eight or nine pedestrian versus car fatalities. Some of those fatalities were of people of color and one homeless woman.
Is this a white wash, Nick?
Why aren’t you going auditing the neighborhood where the problem really is?
Bumpouts. It’s about asphalt and concrete.
There may even be a grant. A chicken in every pot. G-d bless the unlucky pedestrian.
Tip: fix the problem with going back to sodium streetlamps. LED’s don’t work. Drivers can’t see anybody on Tyler.
SIR CHAZ
You are unquestionably correct about the LED “lights” on Tyler. Underlit and dangerous … not that such a triviality matters to those running Bitchfield.
I often say that everyone is right about the “homeless” .The estimates are that Pittsfield has about 350 people who are labeled “homeless”. This group is no doubt composed of people with mental disabilities, drug addiction and those who don’t have the skills to work. I don’t know the split but characterizing it one way or the other without facts is simple ideology. Those who think that they are lazy parasites who refuse to work are as probably as correct as those who say that they are unfortunate people caught by unpredictable trauma. The homeless I know are combinations of both.
So what to do about them? Do everything. Put up homeless shelters that are tolerant centers of compassion and pass laws outlawing camping and panhandling with real penalties. For the mentally disabled give them services in places that they are forced to go. We used to have mental hospitals where people were cared for. They are gone and should come back.
None of the elites live in inner-city Pittsfield, which is an economically distressed downtown over-reliant on social services agencies.
Where are the targeted assistance programs in Pittsfield?
Penalties only make matters worse for the Underclass residents.
Like you, I grew up in Pittsfield. Like you, I studied economics and finance.
The answer is simple: Put a roof over the heads of the homeless residents who live in Pittsfield.
JM, seeing how you don’t work and contribute to paying taxes to help fund these projects, how about you start donating your monthly government check to help pay for these projects? Sound like a plan.
After giving up your monthly check, would you trust Mayor Lumpy, CC Prez Wimpy White, or Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont, to spend your monthly check appropriately?
If the answer is no, then welcome to our world. You know, the ones who fund your “roof over their heads projects.”
There are programs for the “houseless.”
They could clean up, get sober, and use the programs, much like you could work.
*THEY CHOOSE not to do this and/or go to the programs, much like YOU CHOOSE not to work.
You can’t force people to clean-up and get sober or take psych meds, any more than people on the Planet can force you to seek employment or become part of the MAGA movement.
Welcome to Reality 101.
Mental hospitals?And who foots the bill?
Got a mirror, fool?
CT is correct – we used to have mental institutions. Now all the mentally ill are out on the streets. They need to be cared for in a safe environment where they can’t harm others.
Way off mr. Fritz. The state got rid of m I because of cost, abuse,and was just not feasible. New meds and psych outpatient care replaced the former. Which was costly in many ways.
Fritz? What do you think about YOUR Presidents three trill plus increase. Buffoon.
Yeah fritz. Name caller buffoon with 4 thumbs up? What a buffoon.
Those and prisons are necessary ills.
For a blue state we seem to have horrible services for the mentally ill. I believe the most an individual can be held for psychiatric treatment is 72 hours. Then where are they supposed to go when released? Oftentimes the person they were living with doesn’t want them back.Some end up in jail. Other states seem to have better programs in place for dealing with such individuals.
So, I went to the city’s website today to check the calendar to see if the council was meeting tonight. But I was redirected to its brand new site (which all and all is an improvement) However, it has one glaring omission-No meeting calendar for Boards and Commissions. How convenient!! So, now if an issue of importance to you is referred to committee or you want to be at the next Board of Health meeting, you will have no clue when that meeting is taking place. What a genius idea to keep all of your detractors and the “No need to know citizens” quiet. In fact, could this be an Open Meeting violation? Probably not if schedules are posted elsewhere. But it should raise questions.
Not celebrated yesterday was the launch of the new website for the City of Bitchfield.
I took a look at the jobs available and what Bitchfield was looking for in their potential job applicants.
Does Bitchfield value the best qualified candidate to get the best bang for the taxpayer’s buck? Or do the still value discriminatory hiring practices, that has proven over time to be a colossal failure?
*Does Da Dancin’ Dean, ring any bells?
I took this directly from their website. I’ll let you be the judge:
“We strongly encourage people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, and other people from other unrepresented groups to apply…..”
Jobs | Pittsfield, MA
Federal EEOC laws already on the books cover hiring practices. Why aren’t Veterans included on this list?
**Can anyone tell me who or what exactly, would fit the category of “other unrepresented groups?”
Does it give “guys” like Wimpy White the OK to show up to their city job interview wearing his Chewbacca costume and claim “Wookie” as his race?
And a gimp
That and a dollar will get you a cup of Java. Buffoon. Valenti needs to hit the streets and now interview the dead beats that Fake Flats (B C C) jobs Czar…has invited here.
The lawyers came here with their Brien Center working wives and are making a fortune off of Joe ann Mary Jane fed money.
But they’ve run into a couple of hurdles,one Covid and President Trump.
Do you know a Brien Center shrink gets tens of thousands at b m c doing electronic drainage electrons.
Did you see the ridiculous nonsense feel good Clowncil meeting tonight. Where was Dizzy bailing her mother out ? Doesn’t look like Buffy or State Sucket Paul Mark have missed many meals lately.I’m almost ready to deliver some knockout punches Dan. I’ll let you know a week or two in advance when I’m off my back. Tell Mr. Hitchcock I will support his cause. Thanks Dan.
Dear Clowncilor Noto. If a container of alcohol is open. Then it doesn’t matter if it’s sealed or not. Police should be able to enforce any open container that has been opened. Period.
Clowncilor Notho you are spinning your wheels.
Dump these socialist clowncilors and liberal yes d-voters.
Noto
Dizzy
Serre
Amuso
Wrinn
White
for starters….
Require Bitchfield to lose at least twenty -five pounds before January
How many veterans are working at city hall right now? How many LGBTQ+ folk? How many people of color? How many are actually qualified for their jobs? How about at Mercer?
Lumpy is comfortable around these types. Anyone see Country and Beer Belly Paul at the parade. Disgracefull
Speaking of the Does Da Dancin’ Dean,
Is this him?
Berkshire County Real Estate Transactions for June 16-20
Lavante L. Wiggins sold property at 33-35 Wellington Ave., Pittsfield, to Naika Ezaty, $335,000.
Interesting. Thanks OPIE.
Looks like Sean SinSerre (Oddball) is interviewing the future Grand Marshall (Double Float) needed if that comes to fruition.
leaving town?
Ever hear of Capitalism?Yuh gotta pay the stinking lawyers.
He should sell every asset he owns and transfer funds to an off shore account or the feds will take it all.
Great Thoughts
Wish I could have been at the Hitchcock and Friends demolition of Bitchfiel a few weeks ago. Homeless need housing that simple. Build an Alcatraz type tent set up at the p e d a site until we can get this right.
Pete White talks Pittsfield politics.
https://www.wamc.org/news/2025-07-08/pittsfield-city-council-president-white-talks-phs-investigation-camping-ban-ahead-of-bodys-first-meeting-of-july
July 09, 2025
Re: Pittsfield had already investigated PHS allegations prior to the $156,000 taxpayer-funded law firm’s investigation
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
Please listen to the following online radio news story:
https://www.wamc.org/news/2025-07-09/pittsfield-city-council-approves-new-open-container-law-giving-police-more-enforcement-authority-over-public-drinking
Pittsfield had already investigated the Pittsfield High School (PHS) allegations prior to the $156,000 taxpayer-funded law firm’s investigation.
What purpose did the law firm’s investigation really serve if Pittsfield had already conducted the investigations at PHS?
Is the cover-up(s) worse than the alleged crimes that were found to be unsustained in the secret legal report?
I request that you please write and publish a blog post about this matter.
Best wishes,
Jonathan A. Melle
It appears there are certain things the general public will never be allowed to see no matter who is in power…the Epstein client list, the PHS scandal report, the JFK assassination, what the government knows about UFOs, Covid “vaccine” injuries, and many secret government programs involving experiments on humans. The “ secret tapes in Baltimore” guy may have been a victim of that.
EXTRATERRESTIALS did visit Earth. Unfortunately they got here too late 7 billion ravenous humans. They were last seen next to bean sprouts, red chilis and baby corn at Very Yum Yum Wok. Their craft is very useful for dispensing soy sauce and it conveniently floats where you leave it.
Dan You censored my post on ET. Dammit.
It’s hard to type these out on this tiny keypad one stupid character at a time.
Are you suppressing the truth about human nature and appetites and Chinese restaurants? I refer you to Spielberg Vs DOD et al, 1977, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Freedom of Speech which as we know Spielberg won. Truth always wins -you can’t bar its progress.
is this the old Ward 2 guy?
I really hate to change the subject, but feel it must be discussed. I would like Mr. Valenti to start a “Only in Pittsfield” segment to his extraordinary Blog. I would like to be the first. Only in Pittsfield would you demolish a Historic Baseball grandstand, one of the few remaining wooden grandstands in the United States. In return you get what every other small City in America has a concrete and modernized structure with corporate seating. In return you get to spend 30 Million and no affiliated baseball teams. The real kick in the nuts is they are actually calling it a renovation. Wahconah Grandstands can be preserved, steel can be replaced, stop lying to the public. Historic Commission should stop them in their tracks now!
Great idea JT! Here’s my contribution: Only in Pittsfield can they replace brilliant street lights with LED dim bulbs and call it a “safety improvement.”
Hope others pile on!
Do the “unhoused” actually get any food after Danielle Munn gets her share?