SOME OBS TO WHILE AWAY THE BLESSED WEEKEND
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION SEPT. 25-7, 2026) — Some thoughts to ponder in the rain and sun:
Online Peril: THE PLANET wouldn’t know Presley Gerber from Elvis Presley or the Gerber Baby, but we do know of Cindy Crawford, the supermodel. Gerber, Crawford’s son, died at a rehab facility of a “suspected overdose.” In reading about the 27 year old’s death, we learned that young people are now getting their illegal drugs from social media. Yes. Snapchat, TikTok, and other such sites now represent gateways to Percocet, Xanax, Oxycondin, and other controlled substances. Problem is that the “social media pills” come laced with deadly doses of fentanyl and other poisons. We’re hoping for someone to invent a new app that makes every smart phone in possession of anyone 25 and younger dissolve and disappear.
Klueless Kackles: Don’t look now, but Kackles Harris, the disgraced and disgraceful loser in the 2024 presidential election, is back again to further torture the rudderless Democrats. She’s thrown herself into the mid-term elections, stumping for the few candidates who want to be seen with her. Most don’t, knowing she’s deadweight. “I think she’s run her course,” said Barry Goodman, a member of the Democratic National Committee.
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You’re Outta Here!: In banning CNN, Politico, and MSNow from the White House, President Donald Trump is only following the lead of other presidents, including St. Barack Obama, who banned Fox News. Freedom of the press? There’s no greater advocate than THE PLANET. We’ve been practicing it, and studying it, all our professional life. Trump’s actions do not violate the First Amendment, since such bans do not prevent ousted news outlets from reporting. It simply keeps them out of invitation-only events, which is what press conferences are. THE PLANET sees no violations there. CNN and the others will still keep up, even intensify, their hostile coverage of Trump. They remain free to report what they wish.
What ‘We?’?: The state’s recently released MCAS scores illustrates what all of us know anecdotally, that for nearly every metric, kids are getting dumb and dumber. THE PLANET had to laugh when state education secretary Steve Trike said “our kids aren’t performing in the way we should.” In other words, WE are failing the children—not deadbeat parents, unions, administrators, or especially the kids themselves, who are busy creating 15-second porn on TikTok rather than hitting the books.
You’re Outta Here: In the whaling town of New Bedford, Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently rounded up a dozen illegal aliens. Gov. Healey, naturally, blasted ICE, saying some of them do to have criminal records. Some. She must have forgotten that being in the United States illegally makes them de facto criminals. Look, we either have secure borders or not. America has legal processes for those from other countries who wish to come here. Emigres should seek admission that way, not by breaking the law.
Sinkhole: One of THE PLANET‘s most astute contributors, Pothole, made the observation that for the idiots running the Bitchfield Sochol Department, the answer to the chaos and dysfsunction is always “More Money.” Think about it. In the most recent 10 years, taxpayers have sunk ONE BILLION DOLLARS into that department, yet the quality and performance gets worse. Supt. Queen Latifah’s “Inclusive Budgeting” philosophy has only accelerated the downfall. It gives the most money to the worst students while essentially ignoring those with brains and willing to work hard. For that reason alone she should be fired.
Form a Slate: The solution to the Bitchfield school woes? In next year’s municipal election, (a) form a political action committee. (b) It raises money. (c) It recruits a slate of candidates (at least four) who will support common sense in the schools. (d) It elects a “common sense” chair. Such a committee would put the Queen and all administrators in the hot seat. Such a committee would DEMAND that they start singing for their supper.
Ch- Ch- Ch- Changes: According to certain insiders, big changes are ahead at The Boring Broadsheet, a newspaper once known as the Berkshire Eagle. Don’t tell anyone, because the public isn’t supposed to know. We could name names, but that might out a source. Remember: Keep this under your Joe Derby!
Have a great weekend, everybody!
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE”
LOVE TO ALL.
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I don’t know who I like the most. Kamala Harris or Maura Healey or Andrea Harrington or the lovely Linda Tyer.
I hope that Maura Healey runs for U.S. President in 2028.
Pittsfield’s Level 5 schools are a lost cause. So are the BIG 3 city spenders Earl and the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics.
The Kapanski’s are paying for all of the above shit sandwiches.
If Governor Healey runs for president will you and your cousin Mayor Pete make peace and relaunch Gay White Guys 4 Healy #GWG4H
September 25, 2026
Re: Why is Pittsfield Mayor Peter Marchetti controversial?
1. Victoria May’s workplace sex discrimination lawsuit that the Pittsfield bank settled. Mayor Peter Marchetti worked as a manager at the Pittsfield bank whereby he was named as an alleged wrongdoer.
2. The mayor’s “War against the Underclass” residents who are vulnerable and unhoused.
3. The mayor/chair’s actions that kept the 6-figure legal report on the school scandals that is hidden from the public.
4. The mayor pointing out the city’s problems without offering real solutions that would help improve the quality of life of the people, taxpayers and small businesses. HINT: He doesn’t give a….(poop)….about any of them.
5. The mayor’s record-breaking fiscal year operating city budgets that has one of the top Commercial Tax Rates in Massachusetts, along with his administration always outspending Pittsfield peer cities such as Fitchburg and Westfield by tens of millions of dollars per fiscal year.
6. The mayor never trying to cut costs to lower taxes and fees on Pittsfield’s taxpayers. Sarcasm: A snowball in Hell would have a better chance than Pittsfield having a FORENSIC AUDIT.
7. The mayor seeing the residential and commercial taxpayers only as sources of revenues for the city government instead of people and small businesses with their own personal financial goals.
8. The mayor cutting a pot permits settlement city check in the amount of $341,000 to millionaire Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior’s Berkshire Roots in 2024, which was after Nuciforo donated $1,000 to Peter Marchetti’s 2023 mayor campaign. Sarcasm: The millionaire mansion man gets richer, while Senior Citizens on fixed-incomes get poorer in Pittsfield.
9. Mayor Peter Marchetti publicly states that he hates social media and other online platforms for FREE SPEECH because he says that they are all “Doom and Gloom” about Pittsfield.
10. Mayor Peter Marchetti’s public rift with blogger Dan Valenti led to a total city blackout of communication without any explanation to the general public.
11. Mayor Peter Marchetti believes that all public information about the City of Pittsfield (Massachusetts) should be “VETTED” by him.
Examples:
Excessive and always rising to record levels municipal taxes and fees, and unchecked city spending by a rubber-stamp City Council and School Committee.
Why should Mayor Peter Marchetti have to “VET” the city’s financial management practices that the taxpayers pay for?
Why cannot blogger Dan Valenti ask the Mayor about the city’s cooked books that causes the fictional Kapanski family personal financial pain?
Mayor Peter Marchetti’s alleged act of RETRIBUTION against local residents and city workers and local businesses who oppose his leadership.
Why should Mayor Peter Marchetti be able to allegedly practice RETRIBUTION against local residents and city workers, and businesses that he finds unfavorable to his leadership?
Why cannot blogger Dan Valenti advocate for the people and small businesses who have alleged RETRIBUTION by the Mayor?
12. Earl and the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics are all long-time career politicians who are seen as the city’s triumvirate running the municipal government with consolidated power that leaves out most of the people. It is top-down management of the WORST kind.
CONCLUSION:
I – Jon Melle – am on the side of blogger Dan Valenti. Mayor Peter Marchetti is WRONG to have a blackout against him. It is a good journalist’s job to report on the operations of the government for the benefit of the public.
Even though Peter Marchetti is my relative, I would never work with him in politics because his above public record is DISGRACEFUL. Anyone who would support Mayor Peter Marchetti is supporting a top-down leader who is said to be CRUEL, against FREE SPEECH, and sees everyone in Pittsfield as sources of revenues instead of people with personal financial goals.
Jon Melle
Andy, Andy, Andy!!!! Call him, tell him how much you love him
what you see is defined in large part by what you look for and expect to see…
Massachusetts citizens are living in a Democrat Dystopian society which you constantly complain about from your perch in Republican land New Hampshire, yet you continue to state you support the DSA style of politician. I think your doctors at the VA clinic are not giving you the right medicine or enough of it because if you believe what you write than I believe you need serious professional help.
In Massachusetts, some Democrats are really Republicans.
In New Hampshire, some Republicans are really Democrats.
The political insiders are DINO’s and RINO’s depending on the state.
Either way, there is nobody representing someone like me in either Massachusetts or New Hampshire.
But I like and support my Congresswoman, Maggie Goodlander.
I am grateful for her and others like her who advocate for Veterans.
No, nobody is looking out for you. It’s because you are an able body male who COULD WORK , but CHOSE’S NOT TO.
President Trump is looking out for the American taxpayers and kicking deadbeats off welfare and making them work and be productive members of society.
You obviously are not smart enough to realize you are the enemy of the dumocRAT Communists of America (DSA). You’re a white male. They HATE you. They’ll use you for their benefit, but they hate you.
Doubt me, see how many straight, older, w/m’s, work in the racist DEI office in Bitchfield. That’ll tell you. That’s the base DSA is targeting, well, besides illegal aliens.
MAGA will welcome you with open arms and a closed wallet. No handouts. Work and contribute to society positively. It’s all we ask.
Jonathan take heed of that advice. After all,he’s Shirley Knutz.
September 26, 2026
Re: The Pittsfield politics I can do whatever the Hell I want and get away with it CARD
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
I have been thinking about why – without explanation – Pittsfield Mayor Peter Marchetti ordered a blackout of city officials from speaking with you, who publishes the blog PlanetValenti.com.
Also, I thought about the 22.5-year blackout of me – Jon Melle – by The Berkshire Eagle rag that blocks all of my letters and other opinion pieces from publication.
In your case, Dan Valenti, Mayor Peter Marchetti allegedly practices RETRIBUTION against local residents, city workers, and small businesses, but when you post about it and other city matters on your blog, he views (and mistreats) you as the one who is wrong.
In my – Jon Melle’s – case, Boston/Pittsfield millionaire “Luciforo” has conspiratorially persecuted me for the past 30.5-years of my 51-year-old life (because he hated my dad, Bob, for decades), but The Berkshire Eagle views me as the one who is wrong. The Berkshire Eagle is on their “golden boy” Nuciforo’s side when it comes to me, but not when it comes to K Street’s PAC Man Richie Neal who is closing in on 40 years in the Swamp by the end of 2028.
We – Dan Valenti and Jon Melle (me) – are living parallel lives in the Twilight Zone world of Pittsfield politics.
I believe that Mayor Peter Marchetti and Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior, who are political allies in Pittsfield politics, think that they can play their CARD: They can do whatever the Hell they want and get away with it in Pittsfield politics. We write about them to (hopefully) STOP them from acting like royalty in “the Pitts”. Of course, we know full well that they are NO good.
I believe that The Berkshire Eagle allows both of them to treat people in Pittsfield like ATMs, doormats, and worse (a toilet for them to….on). The Eagle allows them to rule us commoners through fear. The more we RESIST them, the longer the blackouts, the bigger the retribution, and the most possible the Twilight Zone treatment.
In Pittsfield politics, we do NOT matter to Marchetti and Nuciforo. Per the Berkshire Eagle rag, we are blacked-out due to Marchetti and Nuciforo acting like “the Royal rulers” of Pittsfield. In their eyes, we are made to be invisible. We write about them so that we are NOT made to be invisible.
As a native of Pittsfield (Mass.), I have witnessed many people from all walks of life behave normally outside of Pittsfield, but obnoxiously when they are in Pittsfield. They know better, but they believe that they are special and BIG shots in Pittsfield (that has a large underclass population that the sitting Mayor has waged his CRUEL war against). In Pittsfield, many people regress from a civilized adult to a childish-like obnoxious person.
I watched Mike Daly’s YouTube video about Pittsfield politics today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0DwTaJe3tg
Mike Daly described the Mayor and other elected officials in Pittsfield politics as “Lunatics”. He said that the culture in Pittsfield City Hall needs to change. He explained that most people AVOID Pittsfield politics for their own piece of mind.
CONCLUSION
Pittsfield politics is run by insiders who orders blackouts of people such as Dan Valenti, along with Jon Melle (me). Due to the “LUNACY” and culture in Pittsfield City Hall, most people AVOID Pittsfield politics because they want to keep their own dignity in place. Marchetti and LUCIFORO think that they can play the I can do whatever the Hell they want and get away with it CARD due to their ordered blackouts, RETRIBUTION, and the most possible the Twilight Zone treatment of good people who support grassroots democracy in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Best wishes,
Jon Melle
Mike Daly said he wanted to work with the Eagle to shut down PlanetValenti. He said it was too vulgar for grown up ears.
Some angels have wings, others a podcast.
A “Dan Valenti” wannabe. There have been several.
He sides with the GOB’s, even though he protests.
But I mean to say he is habitually absent when his input would be welcome.
The Billion Dollar Sochol Graveyard
Deep in Bitchfield, where the streetlamps wheeze,
The Sochol Department drops to its knees.
The walls are cracked, the books are ash,
Yet every cure begins with taxpayer cash.
“More money!” cried Lumpy the king,
As another report went missing in spring.
“More money!” screamed the consultants fat,
While rats earned honors and nobody sat.
A billion dollars vanished below,
Into the sewer where bad ideas grow.
Ten long years of rivers of gold,
Producing classrooms damp, broken, and cold.
There sat Queen Latifah upon her throne,
Counting budgets not her own.
Her creed was simple, her motto clear:
Reward failure and clap and cheer.
The hard-working kid with a book in hand
Was exiled to Academic No-Man’s-Land.
While every fool who slept through class
Received another mountain of cash.
The teachers whispered in fluorescent gloom,
As mold crept slowly across each room.
The students wandered the endless maze,
Lost in inclusive budgetary haze.
Then the Planet spoke from a crater deep,
Awakening taxpayers from their sleep.
“Enough,” he shouted through dust and smoke,
“The whole damn system is a joke.”
“Form a slate,” the Planet cried,
While the administrators ran to hide.
Raise your funds and ring the bell,
Drag common sense back up from hell.
Four brave souls with sharpened brains,
Could challenge queens and break the chains.
Put every administrator and councilor in the seat,
Make them earn the food they eat.
For Bitchfield’s schools are a haunted ship,
Taking water with every trip.
And every captain’s grand solution:
More money for the institution.
Until one day the taxpayers say:
“No.”
And in the silence, dark and still,
The billion-dollar graveyard waits atop the hill.
Filled with budgets, dreams, and schemes,
And the ghosts of common sense screaming beneath the beams.
This is Pulitzer stuff. Creggie
You can publish these.
I vote to adopt this as the revised city charter.
“There sat Queen Latifah upon her throne,
Counting budgets not her own.”
This is Nobel Prize juice!
It’s as good as the Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup.
But this guy is a natural bard. He’s got a road show.
The thing is it’s intelligent and doesn’t use simple rhyming. The most important is the truth of it. Poffy should do the last Council Meeting shit show. A lot there.
Johnnie, as requested:
**Mickey Benji and the Unsolicited Sermons**
In Bitchfield’s chambers, under flickering light,
Sat Mickey Benji, prepared for a fight.
A city clerk by title, a councilor by dream,
Though nobody recalled her joining the team.
She’d leap from her chair with a thunderous gasp,
Dropping wisdom like bricks from a budgetless clasp.
“Have you considered,” she’d solemnly cry,
As councilors stared at the ceiling nearby.
Her speeches would wander through forests of fog,
Beginning with potholes and ending with frogs.
The minutes went missing, the agenda got lost,
While Mickey explained the emotional cost…
Of stop signs.
Mayor Lumpy would blink.
The council would sigh.
A resident checked if his goldfish could fly.
Yet there she remained, with conviction immense,
Dispensing advice that defied common sense.
Every interruption arrived with great flair,
Then floated away unanswered in air.
Meanwhile Bam Bam Cunningham rose from his seat,
With residents rallying out in the street.
“No more useless offices eating the dough!
If nobody needs it, then maybe it should go!”
He charged through meetings with fearless delight,
Swinging at nonsense left, center and right.
While bureaucrats trembled and shuffled their files,
He marched through the clutter for miles upon miles.
The Department of DEI sat polishing plaques,
Producing reports stacked in towering stacks.
Committees on committees on committees once more,
Discussing discussions discussed there before.
Bam Bam looked over the mountain of paper,
And asked, “What exactly do taxpayers get here?”
A silence emerged that was heavy and deep,
So profound that councilman Conant drifted to sleep.
Mickey sprang upward. “I know what to do!”
And launched into Point Number Eighty-Two.
The room slowly aged. The coffee went cold.
Three new potholes formed. Two councilors grew old.
By midnight the chamber was weary and spent,
Still trapped in the vortex of Mickey’s intent.
Yet Bam Bam kept fighting through memos and gloom,
Wielding common sense like a well-balanced broom.
So legends endure in old Bitchfield lore:
Of clerks who wanted a little bit more,
And citizens cheering a man with a plan,
The stubborn, outspoken Bam Bam Cunningham.
While Mickey still rises whenever she can,
Explaining at length what she doesn’t quite understand.
Her wisdom unheeded still floats through the hall…
And occasionally triggers
A two-hour call.
I’m perplexed. That’s your best yet and like a short order cook on the fly. You’ve made our day.
Poffo the Great !
Poffo the Great!
Hear Hear!
According to a satanic force, it is the finest post on this page.
Time to Zero Budget every Department. Start them all at zero and make each department prove what they need the money for in the next budget. Every line should be read aloud and people in the council chambers can question each one. As Cam Cam said let’s make the council stay late and work. During election season that is what they all claim they are going to do for us very Poor taxpayers!
Ward 2’s Cam Bam Cunningham is on to something. He needs support.
How many Pittsfield city employee’s make 6-figures public pay plus perks for life in fiscal year 2027?
The largest expense in Pittsfield’s city operating budget are the costs of paying city employees public pay plus perks for life.
Pittsfield’s taxpayers are screwed.
They have no conscience J. And quite frankly they don’t work for the working paying taxpayer. They think if they give us trash pick-up and road upkeep and water thats all we need. What they don’t give us is a couple of ways to sustain our homes by whatever means it takes. We don’t need excessive property assessments especially the elderly.
The taxpayers’ are getting a bargain with Cam – a shock in a city that overcharges for incompetence.
So didn’t Terry, Charles, Ciara,Peter G. The three amigos…. It’s like a swarm of cockroaches attacking food on the floor.
They were voted in by a non-plurality but the have the fucking state and local officials covering their backs. It’ll never change. It’s called and has been called the good ol boys generational network. Now it includes all groups who think we owe them a job and a living yet still non plurality votes. It ain’t working. Thank You for the Planet…
Earl dropped the ball with that showboat city clerk. Gotta nip in the bud.
He doesn’t know what he’s doing. He has to ask bullhead on everything.
and is he being groomed for the corner office? And “being groomed for the corner office” is not to suggest that he needs to learn how to be mayor but rather learn to take instruction from the special interests, who will tell him what kind of mayor he needs to be.
Lumpy said our biggest problem is folks living in property? What? Go have another.
I don’t know what the deal is on his treatment of DEI candidates for jobs and stuff. The average worker in America gets scrapped every day at work.
To date , 370 fools donated $190,000 to The Eagles Go Fund Me account. This will keep the left wing propaganda machine going another year.
Anyone se the sewer treatment video with Mr. Slater. Rickoshay was ignored the whole process. The operator interviewed was interestingly knowledgeable and knows his stuff. Rickoshay, not so much.
Maybe they’ll report on the woman stabbed in the stomach or the murder on third street or the blythwood drive incident last night crashing into a park vehicle of the homeowner or…….
That is unbelievable. Why would anyone donate to any business especially when they charge to begin with. People are ducking nuts.
The governor of Mass. is proposing eliminating the Mass gas tax of 24 center per gallon for two months. Not a total solution but at least something. Do not know who would come out against it.
Except for the our local paper of course who calls it “meddling”. How would you like to be a driver who delivers their papers and see that? Maybe these drivers should start a “Go Fund Me” huh?
Can’t make this shit up
Isn’t the gas tax itself meddling? The government needs money to pay for new programs, so they meddle by imposing taxes on essential products.
Rather they dump their dough there (to waste) than spend it on something more destructive.
Isn’t that how special interests lobby for favorable press?
Good point. Yes, indeed…
Per the Massachusetts Court – “In a Massachusetts public or governmental meeting, a note-taker is strictly prohibited from speaking unless they have the explicit permission of the Chair”. Is this another rule that this City Administration, Mayor Lumpy and Persip are unaware of, or are they just ignoring the rules AGAIN? You would think our six figure paid City Solicitor would know this rule! Also, wonder why Pittsfield can’t seem to keep a City Solicitor? Seems like quite a few illegal mishaps in the past few weeks.
Evidently Michelle Benjamin has become quite cocky in her role. She needs to be knocked down a few rungs of her ego trip. Maybe she should run for council or Mayor if she knows everything!
She’s bored with her job. Don’t blame her – just pushing people to push paper all day long, then taking notes on very long and tedious speaking toadies. It’s boring – a job best left to a professional.
They should hire a professional clerk to record city business.
We were flooded with illegals coming across our borders yet too few seemed alarmed ….
Somehow it seems we’re perfectly comfortable with it,we’re not personally harmed….
Oh,we read all the emails and commiserate about it as we hit the forward button …..
Meanwhile, the rich get richer hiring them on the cheap, as we continue to feed the glutton…..
Thousands of our own people go to bed hungry every night, many much in need….
Still we allow the illegals to drain our resources as they continue planting their seed ……
i’m not against legal Immigration most of us have foreign roots
But ICE has been ordered to give them all the boot.
She’s bored with her job!? Then why did she run again? For the high salary and health insurance? Wow! She can’t even endure at most a total monthly time of maybe 4 hours taking notes? Folks remember this if she runs again.
Simple – she finds the work of a clerk boring, and she hates council meetings. She’s off her rails and should have her statutory responsibilities rewritten to keep her at the filing cabinets. Then hire a professional transcriber for the meetings. You’ll have accurate reports, and she’ll vent offscreen.
Do you suggest lowering her salary?
I suggest redefine her job to a paper clerk she has no business beyond her desk.
Also, it is a political office. An elected person cannot o entirely transcribe a political meeting.
The person who transcribes a political meeting may not have a political conflict of interest. She is unacceptable. Keep her confined to the office.
September 26, 2026
Re: I have survived LUCIFORO….so far
In reply to “M.A.”, without my VA benefits, I would either hope to live in a public housing unit over a homeless shelter, or I would live out my nightmare on my pretend homeless sidewalk on the corner of First Street and Fenn Street in my native hometown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where I would wave….I mean give the middle-finger salute to….all of the Massachusetts state and local career politicians on their way to and from Pittsfield City Hall.
When I go to the VA Hospital, my fellow Veterans always say that there should be no homeless Veterans in the U.S.A. We Veterans lookout for each other. You are a Veteran, too, “M.A.”. As a Veteran, I would look out for you even though you like to call me “Marxist Melle” and write that Governor Maura Healey is my “communist GF” even though I have never met her in my life of 51 years.
If I did NOT experience traumas in my life and if I was NOT disabled, then I would have been happy to work for a living. From the late-Spring 2002 to the end of Spring 2003 for over one year of my adult life when I was in my mid-20’s, I walked around indigent in Pittsfield looking for employment without success. I believe I was blacklisted from employment by then (now DISGRACED) Pittsfield State Senator Andrea F. Nuciforo, Jr., who tried to jail me 4 to 5 years prior when I was 22-years-old in the late-Spring to Summer 1998, which was right after Nuciforo filed multiple Massachusetts state “Ethics” complaints against my dad, Bob, who was an elected Berkshire County Commissioner back then.
As a disabled Veteran, I live in a 1-bedroom condo unit in Southern New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Nuciforo is a millionaire who lives full-time in his upscale Boston residence along with his Pittsfield part-time $1 million mansion that is only 0.3-miles from former Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer and her 3rd husband Barry Clairmont’s mansion in Pittsfield’s elitist Gated Community neighborhood west of Berkshire Community College that is very close to the Hancock border.
I am a persecuted person due to Nuciforo’s conspiratorial network of abusive bullies. For me, Pittsfield politics is like The Twilight Zone. Mayor Peter Marchetti’s unexplained ordered blackout of city officials speaking with blogger Dan Valenti only reinforces my negative experiences in Pittsfield politics. The Berkshire Eagle’s blackout of my letters also reinforces it all.
Pittsfield will never changed. I told my parents that I was surprised to read comment(s) on Valenti’s blog that Nuciforo was groomed by “the Good Old Boys” for politics, money and power in Pittsfield and Boston from a young age. After Nuciforo failed in politics at the end of 2012, later in 2017 through present day early-Autumn 2026, millionaire Nuciforo cashed-in on Massachusetts’ multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry to enrich himself by millions of dollars.
“M.A.”: What the Hell am I supposed to do at this point? I am fortunate to receive my VA benefits. It is a matter of my survival. I have been through Hell. In 2004, I received a letter from The White House that said that the U.S. President (GWB) sends me his regards and that he ordered me a VA hearing at the VA Central Office close to The White House that Summer over 22 years ago. I served our country Honorably. I am a good man with no criminal record.
This all started for me in the mid-1990’s because Nuciforo hated my dad, Bob, who had a difficult political relationship with his Aunt [the late Anne Everest Wojtokowski], who was the 1st woman Mayor of Pittsfield a long time ago. Nuciforo took out his anger with my father out on me to use me as bait for try to hurt my dad back then. It is called “Divide and Conquer”, which is the oldest trick in the book of conflict for power. It did NOT work. My dad is now 82, and I am now a middle-aged man, who survived Nuciforo’s years of conspiratorial abuses against my father and I.
I wish that you and everyone else would understand all of my mess in Pittsfield politics that I have been writing about for decades. Nuciforo is NO good. He is a millionaire who is in bed with Boston’s big banks and INSURANCE companies. The news media stated that Nuciforo is a Fiscal Conservative who is on the side of BIG Business. Nuciforo is a marijuana millionaire.
I am a Veteran who is on your side, buddy. Nuciforo is a rich “Son of a Bitchfield” who is NOT on your side because you are not an insider in politics, business, and wealth. While I no longer live in my native hometown of Pittsfield, Nuciforo has always lived in Boston for well over the past 30 years. Nuciforo uses Pittsfield for his own gains in politics, money and power. Nuciforo does NOT care about people like us.
I am afraid of Nuciforo because he would try to ruin my life all over again.
Jon Melle:Nuciforo::Bernard Baran:Dan Ford and the other Good Old Boys in Pittsfield who framed him in the Massachusetts Criminal Court System over 40 years ago.
Bernard Baran died at 49 in 2014. Jon Melle is still alive at 51 in 2026.
I do NOT want to become another later version of Bernard Baran at the hands of Nuciforo. I know full well that Nuciforo would like nothing more than to shove it up my – Jon Melle’s – …. I read that the framed Bernard Baran was raped 4 times in Massachusetts state prison. I know what Nuciforo would do to me if he is given the opportunity to feed me to the wolves. There would be no more Jon Melle, while Nuciforo lives his life of luxury.
I know that I should NOT hate, but I hate Nuciforo with all of my being. Nuciforo is my – Jon Melle’s – Enemy #1 in my life. I hope that Nuciforo ends up in prison. I believe that the now 62-year-old LUCIFORO will end up in Hell with Lucifer in about 2 decades from now.
Jon Melle
“Re: I have survived LUCIFORO….so far”
Not until you sear him out of your mind.
Poffo Poetry what a bonus. Walt Whitman would be proud.
I agree with President Trump that AI should be called SI. Artificial Intelligence sounds like it’s fake. Super Intelligence describes it so much better.
I agree that people should enter our country legally and that will solve so many problems. Gov. Healey is a lot like Kamala Harris. Neither woman wants secure borders. As border czar VP Harris did nothing to solve the problem of dangerous people entering our country and the Democrats will return to open borders as soon as they regain power.
Lizzie Warren isn’t happy about the big tax return money received by working class Americans. Lizzie has many illegal immigrants and hordes of non-working able-bodied American citizens to give money to so the Democrats will take away the big tax refunds for the working class as soon as they can.
“I hate Nuciforo with all of my being. Nuciforo is my Enemy #1 in my life. I hope that Nuciforo ends up in prison. I believe that LUCIFORO will end up in Hell.”
My mom would say that it is YOU, Jon, who will end up in hell because of the evil you wish on someone else.
Okay. You must know something that I don’t know or understand about LUCIFORO.