IT’s A CRIME-ING SHAME!
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE EAST, THE WEEKEND EDITION AUG. 21-3, 2026) –When the La-de-Dah types check out of Nothing on North (NON), that posh hotel that’s busy two months of the year then runs on mysterious fumes the other 10, they’re asked to fill out a brief questionnaire about their stay. It includes a comments section.
THE PLANET heard from one of our plants there that after the spade of shootings and other mayhem giving Bitchfield the jitters, several evacuees referenced the violence. NON can kiss those tourists goodbye, for good. And just around the corner, we hear from our spies at the Barrington Stage that despite the theater’s usual lineup of first-rate productions, business is off — not by a lot but by enough to be concerning to the board.
LUMPY
Then talk with the downtown businesses about how the city handles the crime and garbage, human and otherwise, and you’ll get an earful. Truly, when you venture there, you’re bordering the West Side, and you better go armed or wearing Kevlar.
That is the state of affairs in Lumpyville.
Speaking of Mr. Beer Belly, the Lump must have been reading Jack Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage, because he’s starting to find a pair. After the gang bangers and drug traffickers shot up old Dodge this most recent month, Lumpy did an amazing thing. No, he didn’t call a press conference. He didn’t visit families affected by the gunfire. He — ya sittin’ down? —
He …
… issued a STATEMENT!
Actually, it was ghost written for him.
“As Mayor, I am committed to providing updates to the public regarding public safety matters, when appropriate,” Lumpy said. “I share your frustration about the limited information released but I will not compromise the integrity of any investigation. As these investigations continue, the public should know that the DA’s Office and Pittsfield Police Department are using every available resource they have to bring the cases to a successful conclusion,” his ghost wrote.
Right.
Lumpy will provide updates “when appropriate.” And who decides that? Why, The Lump, of course.
Between “openly gay” six-packs and kegs.
He could have issued a gross, loud, long, juicy belch and it would have been more honest, more heartfelt. Lumpy took the mess he inherited and made it messier. His very presence is an insult to every honest, decent, taxpaying citizen.
What a useless load, this mayor.
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Then we get this, from Ward 3 councilor Matt “Play Ball” Rinn:
City Council Vice President Peter White, left, shows his perspective on the recent wave of violence afflicting the city.
As for The Fool who masquerades in tights as council vice president, Voltron himself, he praised Rinn for pointing out how the violence amounts only to “a handful.” What a suck up.
Guess them dudes don’t talk much to the police or listen to the scanner. They clearly have no clue what Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski think and feel.
THE PLANET will be interested in your take.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
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“Crime doesn’t pay, unless you’re in Massachusetts” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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NON tourism is a billion dollar industry in Pittsfield.
Millions of people from around the world visit North Street every year.
So many small businesses pay top dollar for the Berkshire’s hottest location.
Earl and the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics hit the target for economic growth in Pittsfield.
Praise to Tricia Country Buffet, Paul Marxism, PAC Man Richie Neal, and all of the other career politicians.
We should vote for them again.
The government is working….
Ha ha….Funny stuff.
It seems like around here
all the shooters have the same names
“Twenty to Life.”
Ayn Rand pointed out years ago, “We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.” !!
I think someone from the police dept said that MOST of us are safe.
Mayor Lumpy only issued a “statement” after the news media from Albany and Springfield, arrived in Bitchfield and began reporting the news and not burying it.
I believe the 4th shooting in two weeks made it onto Page 3 of the Eagle. The first two pages were dedicated to JM’s communist GF, Maura Healey, and her pandering for votes for her DSA manifesto.
Funny, when white male, Lonnie Durfee, lit haybales on fire supporting Autopen (Hussien’s 3rd term), in which nobody or no property were in jeopardy of being harmed, the Eagle ran that as a front-page story for a solid week.
When the gun-violence is being perpetrated by young POC’s, all of the sudden the cat has the local officials’ and media’s tongue.
Didn’t Autopen tell us that, “white supremacy is our nation’s greatest threat?”
Go ask those honest, hardworking, people, who live in the Westside and have the live in fear of catching a stray bullet, if they still feel that way or if they ever did?
A good follow-up story for the Eagle would be to offer Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont and Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (d-illegal aliens), a few bucks to be “guest reporters for a day.” They could promote this “big story” for a week or two.
It’s not like those two ever met a grifted dollar placed into their pockets that they wouldn’t sell their newborns for. So, this isn’t a big stretch for asking those two to do this.
The Eagle would then send them out to Coltsville where Bitchfield shoppers are and they could ask the question, “how do you feel about the diversity we imported from the Boston area, in exchange for “grant money,” which brought Bitchfield, Ricky Rumpus roundabouts, NON bike-lanes, and bump outs”
I’d buy the unedited video version of that. I bet those two would get an earful, and then some.
They would both wear matching t-shirts that said, “I did this.”
Channel 13 news just reported today a shooting that occurred LAST Friday on West Street by Jason Street. A vehicle shooting at another. How come we first of all, don’t hear about it until a week later from Albany? How come once again no statement from the Mayor? Doesn’t Voltron White live on Jason Street, isn’t this near the Mayor and Lampiasi’s houses? Yet, Chief Marc said most of Pittsfield is safe. After he ran the traffic Bureau, you would think he would realize people in cars shoot guns, and cars do travel. Kind of a stupid comment on his part. When is this Administration going to realize you can no longer hide the truth due to social media?
I have mentioned this before, I go to the YMCA several times a week to exercise. As we all know this is right across from HON. Myself and many members of our exercise class are petrified parking in the lot behind the Senior Center and right across from the Boys Club. This is early morning, there is an encampment there, feces on the sidewalks, people clustered shooting up and high or drunk asking for money. This is less than one block from Lumpy”s glorious North Street. This is what young families and senior citizens are subjected to every day. Totally uncalled for. Never have even seen a police car travel down Melville Street. Do any of these elected officials even care? Nope, Egos are too big to care.
August 21, 2026
Hello Governor Maura Healey,
I am sorry that a poster on the blog named PlanetValenti.com keeps calling you my “communist GF”. The false statement is meant to disparage you and I for standing up to Trump’s policies that hurt Massachusetts (billions of dollars in cuts in federal funding to Massachusetts), immigrants (minorities – Trump’s “ICE Age” smacks of Hitler’s Holocaust), and women (it smacks of the 1950’s era, 1920’s era, and even 19th Century outdated views of women).
My native hometown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, is in a public safety crisis over the past couple of warm weather months 2026. There have been multiple gun shootings violent crimes there.
Blogger Dan Valenti and others used to blame the one-term Berkshire D.A. Andrea Harrington (2019 – 2022) for Pittsfield’s violent crime crises, but now they seemed to have shifted the blame to you. Of course, it defies evidence-based studies with statistics that state that since at least the year 1980, violent crime in Pittsfield has always more than doubled the statewide average.
The Berkshire Eagle is part of the clique of provincial political insiders in Pittsfield. They have blacklisted my letters and other opinion pieces for over the past 22 years now because I write about their “Golden Boy” millionaire who really lives in Boston but has a $1 million mansion in Pittsfield’s elitist Gated Community neighborhood named Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior (also called: LUCIFORO).
There are valid points made by blogger Dan Valenti and other posters about Pittsfield, its failed, Level 5 public schools, its guns and violent crime crises, its record-breaking city spending, its “Pay to Play” corruption, its political insiders’ power grabs, The Berkshire Eagle’s biased coverage of a distressed small city, and so on.
In Boston, the state lawmakers are always under-funding state aid to local government. Massachusetts ranks 39th out of 50 states in local aid funding. It would be nice if it ranked at least 25th, of course. The Berkshire state legislative delegation are all career politicians who are NOT delivering positive results for Western Massachusetts.
It caused political mixed emotions when you campaigned in the Berkshires and other areas of Western Massachusetts earlier this week. It is because we live in a divided country.
I do NOT believe that Andrea Harrington was to blame, nor you are to blame for Pittsfield’s downward spiral. When one looks at the long-term trends, Pittsfield has been going in the wrong direction for decades.
I do, indeed, believe that the state and local political establishment has made Pittsfield worse off. I believe that the career politicians and other government officials are only in it for themselves. I write this because when one stands up to them or gets in their way, then one may as well prepare themselves to live on “Jon Melle the have-NOT’s” pretend homeless sidewalk on the corner of First Street and Fenn Street in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
I am a prime example of what happens to a Pittsfield (persecuted) person when I stood up to LUCIFORO and his conspiratorial network of abusive bullies for the past over 30 years of my 51-year-old adult life. Over 22 years ago, I relocated to southern New Hampshire, The Berkshire Eagle blacklisted me, and I am being disparaged for supporting you, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey.
Best wishes,
Jon Melle
The Police and DA know who’s dealing. Unfortunately its a protected class, that when pressure is applied, the white, liberal loons start protesting in Park Square and the liberal loon politicians pay attention and put pressure on the Police and DA. To solve this we need to send Tricia Farley Buffet, her competitive eating pal, Paul Mar(x)k and any other protesting loon to take up residence in that area. I bet they’d change their BLM tunes pretty quick when they are dodging bullets, needles and human feces.
Timmy the fixers trash force, will be effective, at eating donuts and coffee.
? Why aren’t citizens coming forward? The citizens are seeing something and say something, but it’s not what Fixer, wants to hear.
His latest suspect, by Fixers narrative, is dumb enough to dump gun, where Keystone kops could find it, yet outsmarting every klueless kop in Coommiewealth.
Seems reasonable enough, to idiots.
Like his “Investigation “ of Hinsdale murder by pushups Crupi.
Daigle law firm( independent investigator, wink,wink) is not accepting information of Crupis prior criminal acts…. Just like Timmy the fixers , killer kops!
Seeing the pattern yet?
Timmy will be applying for grants , to combat gun violence in 3,2,1…
8/21/26@1pm
Tom