BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MAY 8-10, 2026) — It looks as if folks are beginning to pay attention. Whether it lasts, because history informs THE PLANET that it hasn’t in more than 40 years, remains to be seen. PCTV has had record viewing, and we’ve noticed the same at this address.

Even the local daily stooped to cover the story … finally … nine days after THE PLANET filed. Once again, they had to play catch up with a one-person team that consistently beats a newsroom of 40. Sources. That’s still the name of the game. That’s how one person makes a difference.

Yes, the citizens, voters, and taxpayers of the peanut gallery have been noticing.

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THE PLANET speaks, of course, of the greater attention “earned” by the lamentable Bitchfield Sochol Department, aka the Pittsfield School Department.  The Suits themselves remain the ultimate cause for this scrutiny, but it took one lone school committee member to put the corrupt bunch under the McDonald French fry lights.

‘Tis a ponderous one, the list of sochol wrongdoing, and we won’t waste precious photons on it other than to mention pictures of private parts, rampant porn, sexting, major drug dealing, drug use, violence, beatdowns, threats, and countless incidents in and out of classrooms.

“Incidents.”

What a “clean” word to hide so much.

To compound the problem, a tiny fraction of the electorate voted in one of the most feckless, timorous bunches of Nervous Nellies in city history. They changed a flat tire with a spare named Peter Marchetti, installed a faint-hearted council, and elevated a quaking, cowering bunch and called it a school committee. Somehow, though, one honest and fearless member won office. That would be SC’s Batory. Again, we see how one person CAN make a difference.

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When news of school department scandals spilled over the full cup, the city cooked up an “independent” investigation conducted by two “connected” retired ex-judges. Even though the report was sanitized and, according to authorities contained “nothing to see there, folks, now run along” officials have kept the contents of the whitewash flattened under a slimy rock. It begs the hanging question: Why? If they had simply released the report in the first place, The Suits probably would have succeeded again in wallpapering over a huge hole.

But no! They know better than you do. Let’s keep it hidden, let rumors fly, and allow scuttlebutt to prowl the fetid oceans of hearsay.

Why? Why is mayor-chair (sorta like boy-toy) Lumpy so desperate to keep the report from the light of day?

The true reason hasn’t come out, but we do know this much: Batory caught Lumpy in a lie. Nonetheless, she got no backing from her feckless colleague, and with that show of fear comes a second vote on whether to release the report or not.

MEMO TO ALL SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERS: You are being closely watched. You should know if you do not vote to release the document, immediately, there will be … consequences.

ATTENTION: Peter Marchetti, Carolyn Barry, Heather McNiece, Dan Elias, Sara Muil, and Kathy Yon. You are hereby ordered by the powers invested in THE PLANET by We The People to enter a unanimous vote, 7-0, to immediately release the PHS report to the public. The Kapanskis only paid $155,000 for it.

Do not defy this command from your superiors.

We have made the motion. Can we get a second?

Have a great weekend, everybody.

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“Corruption has the most expensive hourly rate in the city” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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