“SMILE! YOU’RE ON ‘CANDID CAMERON'” … CITY OFFICIALS CHOOSE SECRECY OVER TRANSPARENCY, FAVOR PERPETRATORS OVER VICTIMS, IN SCHOOL SCANDAL
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JUNE 20-2, 2025) — First, THE PLANET wishes to thank all those who turned out at The Stationery Factory Wednesday evening for the book launch of Stanley Kubrick’s Full Mental Straight Jacket: The Siege of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman. We went in with three boxes of books and sold out. Nice that. Not to fear, though. Plenty of copies on sale locally at
- Hotel on North in Pittsfield,
- The Bookstore in Lenox, and
- amazon.com.
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FOR ALL THOSE WHO BUY, DAN WILL SIGN YOUR BOOK!
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Next, we’ve been witnessing an interesting phenomenon at this site. Our traffic is increasing but the commentary is down. There could be many reasons for that, and THE PLANET wouldn’t hazard a definitive explanation. Our hunch, though, cites torpor and ennui. Across the state, with its cost of living the most expensive in the country, and certainly in Bitchfield, we sense a deep-seated gloom–civic depression–that manifests as apathy.
And why is that?
The scandal involving PHS administrators and the PSD certainly didn’t prompt a newfound belief in the city’s local politicians. Taxpayers fund the corrupt school administration ($125 million+), even while the student population has dipped below 5,000. That works out to $25,000+ per “scholar,” many of whom graduate without simple reading, writing, and math skills, let alone possessing a capacity for critical thinking.
“SMILE! “YOU’RE ON ‘CANDID CAMERON'”–as in Bill Cameron, chairman of the Bitchfield sochgxnol committee. Yeah, the same board on which Mayor Lumpy “serves.”
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When it comes to keeping those same taxpayers informed of developments, however, including the revelation of what is in effect a organized criminal enterprise apparently harboring drug dealing and pedophiles among administration, city officials expect Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski to keep:
- their mouths friggin’ shut,
- stay away from the polls so that the PSD can control elections, and pay the highest tax rates in the Commonwealth–highest in the nation when you figure in:
- discretionary income
- ability to pay for the rising cost of living
- return on investment–city services.
City officials hid a festering scandal for almost two years, and when it broke, commissioned a $155,000 whitewash. Bottom line: Bitchfield officials decided on”
- secrecy over transparency,
- “legal” law breaking over law keeping, and
- spitting on their constituency–parents, pupils, department employees, taxpayers, and all honest citizens–over telling the truth.
- They protected the perpetrators and shafted the victims, and it was all done “legal-like.” Locally connected Judge Rupp saw to that @ $365/hr.
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This The Suits do by design, for three reasons:
- 1. To keep the con game going
- 2. To preserve and multiply the fat for a small cadre of Players “led” by puppet Mayor Pumpy Lumpy, whose string pullers marvel at how easy it is (even as Lumpy’s beer gut grows faster than city spending … same with that blank-slate city council president, who cares more about his action figures than citizens).
- 3. To prevent prosecution of criminality (great job, “Candid” and Sara “Miss Jane” Hathaway).
Public apathy, measured by silent-but-smoldering anger felt by ordinary citizens, allows The Suits to recycle the same, tired, suck-ups for public office until they age out, when they bring in new recruits who have been carefully groomed to “play ball.”
Lack of oversight and accountability permits all of the above. There’s no media watchdog, save the meager efforts of this board.
It all turns into a “why bother” for everyone within this once great and now abject municipality.
No one has more affection for Pittsfield than THE PLANET. Our critiques are always diagnostic. We provide prescriptions..
Have a great weekend, everybody.
Remember: “Smile! You’re on Candid Cameron!
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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June 19, 2025
Hello blogger Dan Valenti,
The Pittsfield (Massachusetts) Public School District is a DEBACLE that is rated Level 5 (the worst level = FAILED), and Group 11 (the poorest level = underclass) that covered up alleged scandals by way of secrecy to make the Pittsfield High School (PHS) – my Alma Mater, 1993 – students voiceless to “CYA” the system that brings in tens of millions of dollars in state administered, federal aid funds to our native hometown’s economically distressed, severely unequal small city in the beautiful Berkshires’ Western Massachusetts.
I have long believed, wrote, blogged, and so on, that Pittsfield politics is ran on “Perverse Incentives”, which is an economics term that says that a firm profits off of the deleterious societal outcomes it produces, such as GE’s pollution of its industrial chemicals called “PCBs”.
I believe that Pittsfield politics uses “Perverse Incentives” to bring in as much state administered, federal aid funds to the distressed small city by using its excessive number of underclass residents as inputs on their bureaucratic spreadsheets that sees its failed public school district, social services oriented downtown with rows of empty storefronts, the “Ring of Poverty” neighborhoods that surround North Street, the small city’s violent crime rate that doubles the statewide average since at least 1980, the $226.2-million fiscal year 2026 – July 01, 2025 – June 30, 2026 – municipal operating budget that costs tens of million of taxpayer-dollars more than similar small cities such as Westfield, over 5 decades of large losses in population and living wage jobs in the distressed small city, and con-artist state and local corrupt career politicians who only deliver DISSERVICES to the common people we all know and love to call the fictional “Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski” hard-working-class family who lives in and pays their hard-earned tax dollars to the City of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Dr. Bill Cameron is a career bureaucrat public school Administrator; retired Superintendent. His actions in covering up the alleged scandals at PHS were totally as predictable as Pittsfield politics ongoing spending sprees of taxpayer dollars going back decades. If he cared about the PHS students, then he would not have made them into a voiceless group of alleged victims of alleged sex abuse, harassment, and the like, by PHS employees, along with the federal government’s allegations of cocaine drug trafficking by the former Dean of PHS students, who is an African-American man in his early-30’s.
Former Pittsfield Mayor Sara Hathaway, who is a member of the School Committee, once sued the city’s public school district around one decade ago for sex and age discrimination after her employment was terminated, along with several other middle-aged woman teachers back then. She was later reinstated, and she walked away with an undisclosed financial settlement.
Her case mattered to her back then. I/we are sorry for her loss, of course. But one decade later, today in 2025, she chuckled and said to a young woman PHS student who spoke publicly about the aforementioned PHS scandals, by Sara Hathaway publicly saying: You kids with your anxieties. It was NOT O.K. for her to experience discrimination by the city’s public school district, but it was O.K. for her to be unprofessional to the young woman PHS student.
Then there is the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics: Mayor Peter Marchetti and City Council President Pete White. Their SILENCE on this matter shows them in a similar light as Dr. Bill Cameron and Sara Hathaway in that they made the PHS students into a voiceless group of alleged victims of the aforementioned alleged scandals.
Pittsfield politics is in a never-ending downward spiral. The corrupt career state and local politicians do NOT represent us common people in Massachusetts (and beyond). As a resident of New Hampshire, I write letters to Governor Kelly Ayotte about political issues, and she never once replied to my letters to her.
The government is supposed to serve the people. Elected officials are supposed to be on our side by using our limited taxpayer-dollars to invest in people and the communities that we live in. It is NOT supposed to be the way it is in 2025 in government and politics. I wish that we were able to vote out politicians such as the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics, Dr. Bill Cameron, Sara Hathaway, and in New Hampshire, Governor Kelly Ayotte, among others who think that they are great and we common folks are not.
I think that they all STINK!
Jon Melle
Nothing is more infuriating than coming home on trash day and still having a bag of trash in the trash bin. It’s like they intentionally do it. I feel like leaving that bag of trash right on mayor Pete’s door.
That’s a good idea. If people began leaving bags of trash on city hall steps, they’d have to notice.
The configuration of the totes is ubsurd. To narrow on the bottom third. Also when the tote is set down the lid is open. Came from work the other day and the tote was full of water. Also the totes are sometime left sideways. A strong wind and totes tip over.
An engineer friend of mine said it was obvious these totes were designed for minimal capacity. Perhaps so that more second totes would be needed and paid for? Marchetti, for whatever reason, opted against common sense to go with the smaller tote. And the haulers are most grateful that he took favor for them and against the people who voted for him to watch over there better interests.
GARBAGE
And the best part of the new garbage deal is that there were no bribes and no kickbacks. Absolutely none. Which THEY will confirm by swearing to it under oath.
True enough. Just because some of the same people were involved in not insisting the school report was made public, does not mean they can be unduly influenced. They took an oath of office fer Gods sake. Honest and trustworthy fer sure.
Marchetti is too busy with bullshit like the sister city nonsense- the lates with a city in Ghana no less, to care about such matters. It’s a disgrace.
Each sister city involves a trip overseas on the city dime. And any citizen is eligible to go
(if you know the right people)
If that is true, visiting a sister city shouldn’t be a step up. It should be comparable to Bitchfield. I think somewhere in the wild provinces of Ukraine where gangsters rule, sits a good fit. Fear not happy Bithchfielder, the food will be good, and the whores will be pretty.
We know who’s influence brought on Ghana as a sister city. What happened to Ireland as a sister city?
https://www.seloverfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Kenneth-A-Dako?obId=30479026
After retirement, he went to Israel to be with his wife and children. The post-secondary education of his children in the USA meant he had to join them to continue to be the guiding light that he always was. He dedicated himself to remaining available to his family and ensuring that his children were guided every step of the way through every single milestone. He always had a love for the church and for helping people, and eventually, the opportunity came when he met Mr. John Moritz of Hearts of the Father Outreach. Through his affiliation with Hearts of the Father, he was able to help lots of marginalized women and children not just in the States but in many nations across the world. With his vast experiences the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) came calling and he accepted a position as Logistics Officer where he was able to allocate funds and direct it to urgent needs of refugees in Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. No matter where he went, he couldn’t get away from serving others.
❤️❤️❤️
Great job Dan!
The Pittsfield Truthteller!
No one likes the Truth, let me rephrase that, Liars don’t like the Truth!
School Committee Meeting on June 25th should be interesting.
I wonder if they’ll have the police there again. Because, you know how dangerous Mom’s & Senior Citizens can be.
Another waste of taxpayers $$.
Have a good weekend.
Were the police at the Methuselah free for all establishment again recently as well? And will useful connections smooth things over again?
THE PLANET heard something about a big fight at Meth. Anybody know the details?
Scant detail in the Beagle. Try getting a copy of the police report. (redacted)
The Aging Greek God once wrote on these pages that the dives serving the villains keep the bars for the civil tranquil.
THE PLANET remembers it well.
Good memory.
June 19, 2025
Follow-up
Pittsfield Mayor Peter Marchetti’s office blocked my email letter to his address.
I criticized his actions, including:
Publicly asking for a 90-day Grace Period free from criticisms, along with him publicly stating that he is not a fan of social media outlets, blogs, and the like, meaning he does NOT support FREE SPEECH as the sitting Mayor of Pittsfield.
His SILENCE on the alleged scandals in the Pittsfield public school district’s alleged scandals left the PHS students without a voice.
His inaction when it comes to NO baseball last Summer 2024 and this Summer 2025 at the historic Wahconah Park.
His failed public record that has caused many more candidates to run for Pittsfield City Council and the Pittsfield School Committee in 2025 than in previous years.
Him being named in Victoria May’s sex discrimination/harassment federal lawsuit whereby she alleges that he called her a BITCH when he was her bank manager prior to her termination of employment at the Pittsfield bank.
My allegations that in 2006, when billionaire John Forbes Kerry visited Pittsfield, he once said negative words against me at the political event. He told people that my plan was to live with his elderly great-Aunt, who is my now late Grandmother, at her Pittsfield home, which was false information.
When people, including my relatives, confronted him about his actions against me, he allegedly said that city business is not always nice. He was NOT sorry for his actions.
He settled millionaire Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior’s pot permits lawsuit versus the City of Pittsfield in 2024 whereby his mayoral administration cut a Nuciforo’s Berkshire Roots marijuana company a FREE CASH city check for $341,000. He also settled with several other marijuana businesses last year, but in 2023, Nuciforo donated $1,000 to Peter Marchetti’s campaign for mayor.
Him serving one or possibly two terms as Pittsfield’s Mayor whereby he earns a 6-figure city public pay plus perks, which he will turn into his 6-figure city public pension plus perks in his retirement, while he excessively raises local taxes and raises fees on fixed-income city tax and fee payers.
His predictable Pittsfield politics always annual 5 percent spending increases in his two municipal operating budgets that cost tens of millions of dollars more than similar small cities such as Westfield.
He always says he is good at math, budgets and finances, but he has NOT changed one thing for the better when it comes to predictable Pittsfield politics’ spending sprees of Kapanski Ka$h.
Good riddance, Peter Marchetti. You are the WORST Mayor of Pittsfield politics in my lifetime!
Jon Melle
So shameful that the public will never know what really happened at PHS. People involved are leaving their jobs so their innocence is in question. Is this just like the church moving people along to another parish who are guilty of wrongdoing?
A big reason for people not leaving as many messages is because people are working harder than ever after 4 years of the Biden administration destroying the economy. That is certainly true in my case. I am working around the clock.
…And no matter how deep you bury what happened in that ‘other’ district,
no matter how many straw distractions you ignite,
know this:
The smoke always points to the fire.
~ Cassain Verity
Cameron in a peruke ?
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/southern-berkshire-regional-district-superintendent-resigns/article_d6e1574f-a5c9-42c3-94bb-27f82953be4d.html
Right.And they’ll tell us we got a bang for our buck.
What about Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s huge amount of deficit spending?
They have a RED credit card, while the Obama & Biden’s had a BLUE credit card.
It happened today, Friday, June 20th, 2025: $37 trillion-plus U.S. national debt.
https://usdebtclock.org/
How soon will it go to $38 trillion U.S. national debt?
The Swamp is over-flowing with RED INK (pun intended).
This is going to be a bad summer for crime here in Bitchfield.
Shop lifting has become a game of “I dare you to catch me”. They fill up a cart full of stuff and walk right out the door. If they get caught they get a NO Trespass order. And then they say, “Aww Schucks! and Darnit.”
(and then try it again down the street)
If sales associates were allowed to carry swords, that thing would end fast.
Why is the price of food so high. Pat ?
The price of food isn’t as high as it was, but it can still go down more. I was paying over $300.00 during a normal grocery trip just last year. I now pay much less, but the problem is once the stores got used to charging such high prices it’s difficult to rein them back in to normal prices. The Democrats didn’t care about inflation and grocery prices until Trump got in office. The Good Morning Joe show only discovered the outrageous price of eggs and butter after Trump was sworn in as president. Suddenly the Democrat media was interested in the price of groceries.
I go to four different grocery stores and everyone single one of them is much higher, and higher than the week before. Where is this discount market you shop at?
I shop at the regular big 3 supermarkets in the city, Big Y, Stop n’ Shop and Price Chopper. I also go to Aldis which does have some deals that are better than the others. I really pay attention to deals like buy one get one free and then I stock up. I love the sweet treats so I have to use a lot of self-discipline to avoid putting too many of those in my shopping cart.
I agree with a poster here that said beef prices have skyrocketed due to the Green New Deal deceptively called the Inflation Reduction Act since it did nothing for inflation. Democrats worry about Green Energy while allowing wildfires to burn out of control. Wildfire smoke is destroying air quality.
Thank you to the Trump administration for destroying the nuclear sites in Iran.
Its because green new deal obliterated beef and agriculture. We are importing beef from Australia.
Sara Hathaway was let go by the Pittsfield Pubic (sick) schools. Let that sink in.
Great point, PETER. Let go, then sued the city. She’s like shoe gum. Can’t get rid of it. Sara Shoegum.
Sara Shoe-gum:
Pittsfield is a Junkie for State Aid
Violent Crime in Pittsfield is an Aberration
She sued the city’s public school district for discrimination in the mid-2010’s after her employment as a middle school teacher was terminated, along with other middle-aged woman teachers.
She walked away with an undisclosed financial settlement from the city government. Her employment as a teacher was reinstated. I/we are sorry for her loss.
She serves on the Pittsfield School Committee whereby she acted unprofessionally towards a young woman PHS student who spoke publicly about the alleged scandals at PHS.
Sara Hathaway chuckled and said to the young woman PHS student: You kids with your anxieties.
I wonder why her past legal case versus the city’s public school district mattered only for her to act unprofessionally towards the aforementioned young woman PHS student.
Enough is enough. It is time for Sara Hathaway to retire from Pittsfield politics.
Jon Melle
Sara Shoegum. Why, I believe we have discovered a great, new moniker!
and then like so many others who did not work out she was promoted to a position of authority
Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. If you fail at teaching then your penance is the Sohcol Committee.
Dan lets expand
“Next, we’ve been witnessing an interesting phenomenon at this site. Our traffic is increasing but the commentary is down. There could be many reasons for that, and THE PLANET wouldn’t hazard a definitive explanation.”
answer _ like Fox (fake news) you have a preferred narrative, make just enough noise to stay irrelevant , and censor comments which expose your friends- chuck in general
“Our hunch, though, cites torpor and ennui. Across the state, with its cost of living the most expensive in the country, and certainly in Bitchfield, we sense a deep-seated gloom–civic depression–that manifests as apathy.”
answer- everyone is on to your fake news, duh
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They protected the perpetrators and shafted the victims, and it was all done “legal-like.” Locally connected Judge Rupp saw to that @ $365/hr.’
LOL
Dan you fully understood corrupt Rupps report would never be released
I’m sure traffic on The Planet is up because the GOBSIG’s are monitoring it, to make sure nobody has opened their mouths and further expose the rot, corruption, and pedophilia, in PHS.
There is no law in MA, regarding educator sexual misconduct with students.
The first few sentences from the link I provided below, should make everyone understand why the PHS principals are suddenly “retiring.” One is only 2 years away from a FULL PENSION FOR-LIFE and she’s suddenly “retiring.”
“Educator Sexual Misconduct and Abuse is frowned upon. Schools can fire employees for having sexual relationships with students. But, if the student is over the state’s age of consent, the employees cannot always be criminally charged.”
In MA, the age of consent is 16.
Couple this with no law regarding teachers grooming and eventually molesting students, so if a 16-year-old PHS student decided to dip his long-fellow into a piece of Sheppard’s Pie, well then, it’s no-harm, no-foul. Or if a picture of Sheppard’s Pie was distributed to a bunch of 16- and 17-year-old students, see above and remember:
SMILE, YOU’RE ON CAMERON’S CAMERA…..
***Just be careful bending over near it. Rumor has it, that it’s an openly gay, colonoscopy camera, trained to extract a person’s money from their wallet and take revealing “Sheppard Pie-type” photos of them.
**For those interested, Cameron’s Camera only cost taxpayers $155,000, of your hard-earned money.
https://enoughabuse.org/get-vocal/laws-by-state/criminalizing-educator-sexual-misconduct-map/
Your explanation in paragraph 1 sounds reasonable. Truly, the leap in business for the site in the past couple months has gone far beyond the predictive algorithms. Most intriguing. If we were of an avaricious nature, we would accept sponsorship offers that have come our way, but NOTHING and NO ONE will determine content but THE PLANET. This is a benevolent dictatorship, and we provide FREE access for We The People. And when we shut ‘er down, that shall be our decision alone as well.
Is it true that a photo of Shepards Pie will be in the 2025 PHS yearbook and if so will the photographer be given proper credit?
I believe so.
Rumor even has it, that in addition to a colored picture of Sheppard’s Pie in the yearbook, the Bitchfield Pubic Scohol Comitey also sweetened the pot by offering the first 100 students to purchase a PHS yearbook, will get a free sample of Da Dancing’ Dean’s morning pick-me up. A few lines or bumps of blow before Geometry class, to help get the blood flowing.
**White students are ineligible to apply. White privilege allows you straight A’s and free cocaine, just for being white.
The secret behavior from the Mayor, City Council and School Committee blows my mind. They all must figure we are dumb as dirt.
With election season coming up on us fairly fast I asked these current elected egotistical losers what they are going to run on. They have not done a damn thing to benefit hardworking taxpayers. They can’t run on lowering taxes plus they voted for another bloated budget which includes large raises. They all voted to leave panhandling alone, they don’t seem to care about the terrible state of North Street. They all seem to feel the Pittsfield Schools are perfect, they don’t seem to care about the constant overdoses. The police department spends the early morning performing wake up calls for all the homeless sleeping in the doorways of businesses on North, West, South and East Streets. How inviting to potential new business coming to Pittsfield.
It seems like the only time these elected officials come alive is when there is a photo shoot for the Pride community. They don’t seem to care that Ali Shepard posted her vagigi for students to see, didn’t faze them how Kayla Donnolly was treated by Maggie Harrington, they just promoted Maggie so she could get her pension. Kayla was just doing her job, but got fired. They didn’t seem to care that Ali Shepard got paid $100,000 salary to sit home from December to July. Did they care about the students that got locked in the closet at Stearns School. Did any of them wonder why there was a complete turn around on releasing the $155,000 report taxpayers paid for. Still wonder if someone paid off Manza Arthur’s boss William Gavin, Secretary of the Commonweath to stop the release. No, they just turned their backs and kept their mouths shut. Why?? Bottom line NONE of these losers should be reelected. They have done NOTHING for years, except sit back and collect their pay and insurance, the very items that us taxpayers pay for? It has to stop!
Thanks for the input. Once again, you raise salient points. It has to stop, M&B, true. Any suggestions as to how?
The only way to stop this pattern is having a candidate that is a true business person, not tied to the good ole boy Pittsfield network. This person needs to operate the administration like a business. All department heads need to receive six month and yearly reviews. They should be held accountable for the mishaps caused or IGNORED by their departments.
Another problem is between the Tyer/Clairmont and Marchetti Administrations, they have allowed Pittsfield to be infiltrated by residents that rely on the free government funding. These folks don’t vote, they don’t work or want to work, they don’t even register to vote. As long as the free handouts keep coming they are content. The Holiday Inn (Crowne Plaza) is the residence for many of these people. Why would any tourist want to stay there, the police are there constantly. Why did the Mayors allow this, because the City gets a handout also.
If residents try to voice their suggestions or issues they are not listened to and shut down by Gavel Pounding Pete.
The most blatant cause of constantly re-electing these do nothings are the members of the school, fire & police departments. As long as these departments are a part of the over bloated budget voted in with increases every year these folks are happier than pigs in poop and therefore vote these losers back in.
It’s just a sick situation and unfortunately I don’t think a change will ever happen. Although as you drive around the Pitts there is an unusual amount of homes for sale. People that can, move out of the Pitts.
M&B
Good response. Related to your first observation, we need to bring PRIVATE capital downtown.
To understand handout programs and their popularity one must understand the underlying “administrative” costs. It takes a lot of money to distribute handout stuff. It creates all kinds of nepotismal jobs, some of them standing around jobs, and procurement jobs and the perks that go with all that. For instance if you work in an office associated with handing out free food you yourself can always have a full pantry if you know what I mean. And is anyone with any authority checking how you spend your incidental expense money?
C’mon….If you are in charge of housing your own family and friends may rise higher on the eligibility list overnight. And that includes senior housing.
So the moral of the story is that if you can get yourself in charge of “helping” the lesser haves you may find yourself blessed as well.
Great insight, PERKS, and the administrative costs of the handouts themselves are typically in excess of the amount given. Probably multiply the true cost of handouts x 3. Thus, the $2 billion Gov. Healey has given out to the countless illegals she lured here is closer to $6B. Another governmental scam. The PSD and the Two Petes follow on a small scale but proportionately the same, robbing the citizens of the city. What else can you expects from corrupt pols that have no backbone, bring an idiot’s approach to public office, and are completely bought and sold by the Special Interests.
I and many others object to a whole class of people garnering all sorts of unearned benefits that I and many others are forced to pay for. If the demonrats and leftists want to be generous, let them do it with their own money and not with ours.
You and I pay “free” food, housing, medical coverage, security, education, transportation, phones, cash cards, laundry services, and countless other benefits for criminals. Welcome to Massachusetts!
It really gets me when shopping for groceries and I see people filling up their Snap Buggies with items that hard working taxpayers now consider luxury items to purchase for themselves and families.
A cashier friend says it’s common for those on the dole to buy the priciest cuts of meat and seafood.
The panhandling thing failed because a guy who’s been in politics for decades failed to sell it.
Most Republicans could not make it in the Pittsfield failed system.They all came from a school system of failed red states.
Right, TSC. Maybe that explains how the national ticket won everything last November. Thanks for enlightening this board.
You are 100% correct.Trump and his FOX cohost are the best we have after 30 years of school choice.Tell the MAGA dummies anything and they are in.You all wanted school choice so urban schools would thrive.Republicans radical expierment failed.Dictatorships thrive when education is destroyed.Here we are.
Are wealthy liberals in Lenox and Stockbridge school choicing into Pttsfield?
I don’t think you understand how school choice works and who uses it.
You’re surprisingly correct with this statement TSC.
Most Republicans that I know, went to schools that taught us the 3 R’s and how to think critically and independently, and not like democRATS. You just parrot what you hear on MSM and think it’s fact: “Trump is a Nazi,” “Save our democracy,” and the newest slogan “No Kings.”
You want to know what our schools didn’t teach us, that “blue state” schools teach:
*We didn’t go to schools that focus on social media influencers “creating content,” during an Algebra or History class.
*We didn’t go to schools that hired unqualified, under educated, black drug dealers into an administrative position, simply because he was a black guy. No more, no less.
*We didn’t go to schools where the school administrators sent PU$$Y PICS to the students or partied with them after school hours.
No, we went to schools that actually taught us the material and subjects they were supposed to.
For example, TSC, do you wonder how Iran began developing nuclear weapons? I’ll give you a quick “school system from a red state,” lesson.
*Killary Clinton supplied Iran with uranium to enrich their nuclear program.
*Bathhouse Barry gave Iran $1,700,000,000 ($1.7B) in pallets of cash, used to fund their nuclear program.
*President Auto-Pen unfroze over $16,000,000,000 ($16B) of seized funds and gave it back to them, allowing them to fund their nuclear program and buy military grade weapons on the black market.
You know what you don’t see here TSC? President Trump gave Iran nothing.
MARK
You nailed it again. In school, we were taught the skills that would allow us to stand on our own and become independent and productive members of society. The most important of these was critical thinking. Today, as you point out, it’s the opposite. Love your remark about “influencers” “creating content.” Total ban on phones is needed.
What ever happened to plain old Civics?
MA, They talk alike, they say the dumbest things, and then want you to think of them as intellectual giants, when midgets is more appropriate. It is when they put on their faux pious faces that you can get ready for a good laugh.
A little humor today.
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Today is the third day in a row that there have been non-stop vehicle accidents in Pittsfield,, some very serious. Our police officers do not have time for traffic enforcement because they spend so much time doing well being checks for the Brien Center.
Can I suggest to Mayor Lumpy Marchetti that he put a stop to the Brien Center utilizing our taxpayer police department to do their “well being checks” on their clients. I have asked several times if the City gets reimbursed for all the hours our police officers work for them. Our police department should be working for the taxpayers, let Brien Center hire their own “well being checker”.
Near fatal car-pedestrian encounter Dalton Avenue @ Havard Place.
Pedestrian passed away. Now a fatality.
It went fatal according to this morning’s Eagle article.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said:
This is a moment where the President of the United States [Donald Trump] is the most openly corrupt human being to serve [in that Oval Office].
The Republicans in Congress had their spines removed.
She accused Trump and his fellow Republicans in Congress of BETRAYAL.
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/79367/U.S.-Senator-Warren-It-s-Bad-In-Washington-.html
HARSH WORDS, indeed!
Jon Melle
If you were in attendance Marxist-Melle, I bet when Pocahontas started screeching on about TDS, you probably got harder than Chinese arithmetic.
By chance did she mention any policies to help the American taxpayers? Or was it more of her same speech about removing of “millions from Medicaid,” bullspit?
**Notice how she chooses her words carefully. “Millions of people.” It’s not “millions of Americans.” Why you ask?
It translates to, “we can’t lose our illegal alien population, or we’ll lose seats in congress and LOSE POWER.”
Democrats on illegal immigration :
Why should we vet anybody ? Come on in, the water’s fine! Don’t
forget your Kool-Aid.
Sum’s up the scripted harsh words.
Johnny, You believe Lieawatha Warren!
What has she/it/them done for Americans?
JM: Yes, I agree that is also some of the stupidest shit to come out of her big mouth.
Lieawatha belongs in a stall with some water and hay.
The asses will think themselves deaf as she sucks all the braying to her stall.
Dan,
You’re getting so much action, cause you’re the only news media telling the Truth!
I said, what I said. (My new mantra)
The political email I read from Act on Mass said that the Massachusetts State Legislature passed only 6 bills into state law in a little less than the first 6 months of 2025.
State Legislators are still working on sending the fiscal year 2026 state budget to the desk of Governor Maura Healey. The fiscal year state budget begins soon on July 01st, 2025. It looks like it will be late.
State and local government are predicted to lose federal funding due to the cuts in federal aid by the Trump administration. Moreover, Massachusetts has a high cost of living compared to other states.
I have followed Massachusetts government and politics my entire adult life of close to 50 years of age. The social services needs are greatest in Western Massachusetts because there are little to no living wage jobs there.
Boston’s state government inaction, along with the predicted cuts in federal aid funding, will leave people in need of social services without an adequate level of government assistance.
I wish I were able to help, but state and local government is full of corrupt career politicians who do NOTHING but DISSERVICES to the Have NOT’s.
It is pointless to try to advocate for the common people because Boston’s state government is a failed institution ran by MONEY and POWER via secrecy and greed – as some registered lobbyists in Boston report 7-figure per year incomes.
Next weekend, Act on Mass will visit Pittsfield from 09:00 am – 1:00 pm at the Farmers Market at the Pittsfield Common. The tagline is “Transparency on Tour”.
Jon Melle
When you have the Fox’ ssssssss. Guarding the hen house. Wasn’t a SRO on the job?
Good morning Berkshire County !!!