RED FLAGS: CLUELESS COUNCIL IGNORES KEY ISSUES … also … ‘SLURPY’ QUITS ON SCHOOL SCANDAL –or– NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS!
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY JULY 16, 2025) — You’ll sleep much safer to know that, with an avalanche of immediate and pressing problems plaguing the city (homelessness, drug trafficking, shooting and stabbings, punishing taxes, a moribund economy, shaky finances, OPEB anvil, and more), THE PLANET‘s Right Honorable Good Friends on the city council passed a …
… flag ordinance.
No joke.
The new law specifies in brain-dead legalese what flags are allowed, when, and why. THE PLANET asks you, “Where on the list of urgent municipal issues would you place passing of a …
… flag ordinance?”
The ordinance allows flags “consistent with the city’s core values.”
This means Bitchfield under the invisible (except for his growing beer gut) Mayor Lumpy will commission designs for flags that honor:
- corruption
- pedophilia
- illicit drug sales
- cozy contracts for public works that violate the state’s competitive bidding laws
- bribery
- kickbacks
- dereliction of duty
- violation of the oaths office.
THE PLANET invites those creative with pen, pencil, or software to design a few. Who know? Maybe Lumpy will adopt your design. Something to tell your grandchildren, for sure.
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In other sports news, THE PLANET highlights other municipal item: Cowardice.
Ward 1 councilor Ken “Slurpy” Warren announced that’s he’s given up his pursuit of obtaining a copy of the “independent” investigation a “connected” ex-judge “undertook” into scandal-ridden Pittsfield High School. Mass resignations followed the far-too-late-though-credible allegations of sex crimes and worse, but, ex-Judge Rapp decided, Bitchfield was justified in withholding public records. Rapp took the $$$ rap, receiving $156,000 for her “work.”
BTW, did you ever notice how when one attempts to right a truthful article about the goings on in Bitchfield, so many words must be put in quotation marks. You probably know why.
“I think we need to move forward. I’m willing to move forward, so I hope people will support my motion to file this,” Warren said to the five other councilors present, to borrow from Brittany Polito’s story in iBerkshires.
Yeah, as one of our commentators shared a couple days ago, these pathetic bums on the council recently met with six of the 11, one more than the quorum. Five didn’t bother to attend, though THE PLANET hazards a wild guess that they won’t hesitate to cash their city paychecks. And that comes even though the council meets only once in July and August. Those NOT attending: Jim Conant the Barbarian, Alisa Costa-Plenty, Matt Wrinn Tin-Tin, Dumpster Earl Persip, and Dizzy Dina Lampiasi.
A truly pathetic showing.
As for Slurpy giving up the ghost, par for the course.
Mayor Lumpy, the council, and the socoforoogool committee don’t give a bucket of sand in hell for Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski, the ordinary, hard-working, law-abiding, proverbial good citizens–and no, we need not put good in quotes. The Kapanskis ARE good, but they get punished being so.
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In other small cities, where citizens are spirited, such official incompetence would bring out packed meetings demanding wholesale changes. The upcoming election would see plenty of legit challengers. The electoral outcome would result in these lazy, selfish folks being voted out of office.
In Bitchfield, though, two things are in play. One is apathy. After successive maladroit mayoral terms–now going on 10 years of citizens, taxpayers, and politically unconnected small business being squashed–folks have come to the logical conclusion that they’re in a rigged game. Only a sucker would play.
The other is retaliation. We’ve seen in the ongoing school department scandal, with the whitewash still wet and dripping, what whistleblowing does. It gets you fired, harassed, and vexed. We’ve seen it also in the Strange Case of Gary Munn’s Firing and the actions against his wife Danielle’s North Street business, which had the audacity to protest the mayor’s poorly conceived ordinance against the homeless.
Too many good folks have been made to feel slimed by the current politics of what once was, in a dim and distant past, one of the country’s finest small cities. No more. The word is out among would-be investors, private business, and people who might otherwise be attracted to The Berkshires: This isn’t the place you want to be right now.
It’s sad to witness.
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How do you like your Kool-Aid, with one Pete or two? — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.
“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Marchetti knowing full well what the Trump dismantling of America means to cities and towns surrounding Pittsfield still chooses to spend 30 million dollars at a time our county is being forced to fail.The goofy Republicans are not in power to do anything other than cleanse America of the greatest hardest workers in history.Imagine one of you great patriots on this board working 1 hour in a field no matter what they paid you.
Meanwhile the Democrat “resistance” gleefully committing the worst atrocities in history
No court in the commonwealth shall admit or consider a finding of abuse, neglect or maltreatment based on a parent or guardian allowing their child to receive or seek gender-affirming health care services
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S2538
That was on FOX entertainment
TSC, the point is to remove welfare from the Millions of able bodied layabouts. Force their lazy asses out of Mommy’s basement and into the workforce. Yes, legal immigrants are perfect for working in fields. PS, don’t forget your DTS meds.
Self-sufficiency eradicates the ‘need’ for the
Democrat Party.
Actually the stats suggest the legal Americans are flocking to the work force in a greater number than the illegals are leaving. Another stat you won’t read in the looney propaganda rag of the Berkshires is last month was the first time in over 30 years that the US government was not in the RED…who would have thunk a Republican President and Congress could do such a thing
Yes I saw that on FOX
https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrants-and-USBorn
Illegal and LEGAL immigrants use more government handouts than US Born citizens.
The greatest, hardest workers in history are the immigrants that came over in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. They worked their butts off for next to nothing and still had to pay for their own food and housing. The slaves on the southern plantations got food and shelter atleast.
Can I just say that,of all the idiot’s, in all the idiot village’s, In all the idiot worlds, you stand alone, my friend.
Rush 15 hours per week with repeats on Saturdays…Hannity 15 hours plus an hour bedtime story for another 5 hours at night…Im sure it never brainwashed You
Since derangement syndrome occurs any time there is a republican President I vote we rename it democrat derangement
syndrome.
Actually I love farming and building up a sweat. We all know now physical work is not in your skill set. One response for Wahconah Park, I think the Unions should work on it for free as they were the ones that shot down Jim Bouton’s attempt to save the old ballyard
Wahconah is not worth saving.
It is very sad to witness. Good people are leaving the area and that really is what these far leftists want. They bring in illegal immigrants and call Pittsfield a sanctuary city. This way they continue to control the elections. This is the same thing happening across the country and we see it on a smaller scale here. LGBT flag flying becomes the major issue facing the city and the City Clowncil and the rest of the far left politicians have a good laugh at how easily they keep control over a population that is unable to critically think about what is happening to their city and country. The far left planned for that too by watering down educational standards so that the biggest worries of the young revolve around their gender and sexuality and not the tighter and tighter control of government over our lives.
The point about the schools, PAT, cannot be underscored enough. Gender and sexuality have replaced reading, writing, and math. We are seeing the results.
Dan,I hope you realize the gay queers are next for you cowards to pay to be locked up in foriegn jails at 400k per year.You patriots want to cleanse for Don and Miller.
Of course, you can’t actually believe this preposterous statement. Gay, queer, straight, anything: If you are a decent, good person, you deserve love and respect. If you’re not, then the consequences tend to take care of themselves.
Turn the channel Dan
What’s yours?
And we know why the usual suspects are mad About the DOE being dismantled and the control of school systems being given back to the parents and students in their states. It’s not because they believe every kid in America deserves access to a good public education.
No, no, it’s because this move has the potential to FINALLY take the teachers’ unions down a peg or five … and as we all know, Democrats need those sweet donations from the teachers unions.
Good one, OPIE!
Trump is the education King
Better Trump the king of education than the queen and her jesters of woke indoctrination for parents and students.
https://media.breitbart.com/media/2025/07/AP24235830412402-
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These Bitchfield’s clowns no longer govern, they simply pander.
The openly gay Mayor, the Voltron City Council Prez, the Synthetic School Committee Chairman, the Shoe-Gum Sara, and the Kapanski family, who are their ATMs, their doormat, and a toilet they use to shit on. And it costs the fictional Kapanski’s over $226.2 million in fiscal year 2026 in return for….(I won’t write it).
Sara Shoegum. Ah, the hits continue!
Westfield is a similar-sized small city to Pittsfield.
Westfield’s operating budget is a little less than $164 million.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/westfield-fy26-budget-passes-6-100001950.html
Pittsfield’s operating budget is a little over $226 million.
That means that Pittsfield’s operating budget is over $62 million more than Westfield’s operating budget.
That is only one fiscal year. If one times that figure by 10 years, then one will clearly see that over one decade, Pittsfield’s operating budget will be over $620 million more than Westfield’s operating budgets.
Why does Pittsfield cost taxpayers so much more than Westfield, Massachusetts?
What the Hell is WRONG with this picture?
Much larger special interest community exacerbated by co-opted politicians who work for them and not the electorate?
A shit show.
I was searching for the MA property tax records to see if Slurpy is paid up. Or, if Slurpy had been told to shut up, or else. He did a turnaround on getting the taxpayers their $156,000 whitewash, that they paid for, faster than Mayor Lumpy can down a footlong hotdog without taking a bite out of it.
Getting back on topic, I found that an LLC formed in 2021, during the Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont administration, owes the city $171,251 in back taxes. The company, Fenway Plant Based LLC, run by Matthew Kenney, of California. I provided the DOR and the MA business (LLC) search links below backing up what I’m writing.
How does a guy/LLC owe $170k in taxes for a business that never existed? I’ve searched for this place in Picklefield/Bitchfield and can’t find it. I can only find it at, you guessed it, Fenway Park, in Boston. It’s a vegan place.
I’m not a tax investigator, but man, this has fraud written all over it. How does the city let a guy/LLC get over $170k in debt over a 2-year period on a place that never existed?
Sounds like another “EV-Batteries,” that walked off with a cool $1M from Bitchfield years ago, for doing as much work on solar batteries as myself.
https://web.dor.state.ma.us/dorportal/TaxDelinquents?pageMode=D
https://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.aspx?sysvalue=Seex4NCKODh_Ler67NkXuGtFJ_Vxea72WMlOUIomHX4-
Thanks, MARK
Yeah the dudes a vegan chef. Go to his Facebook page he’s holding the green in his arms.
Do some research on the folk that own/run the ball team last occupying Waconah park. Big investment group and possibly the driving force behind having taxpayers fix up the Waconah Park venue for all kinds of events unrelated to baseball.
Thanks Marcus for bringing this up!
The Eagle ran a piece on Warren, a few years ago, stating that he owes back taxes on his Pittsfield office.
Why isn’t this guy being investigated?
He should not be holding a city councilor position when he is mired in unpaid taxes.
Think your facts are off. Wasnt it a house that had multiple owners disputing who was responsible for the Bill’s? If so, he said he paid it.
They also slammed Maffucio in that hit piece and embarrassed him for a petty tardiness.
Seeing how the Clowncil decided to take the summer off(does their pay get docked for missing all meetings in the month?) I decided to assist them with some ideas for their “governance”.
Seeing how we had 2 deaths on West St and nothing has been done I propose a “morales Maze” rotary be installed in front of the electric company and Salvation Army. I would also propose some speed jumps be put in place in front of St. Marks, Onota St and on College Drive. I would make West street from Big Yconvenience store to the new rotary one lane and on the other side from west street to Miller Supply. Seeing how multiple people over the years have been hit and/or killed there I believe it should be done immediately(ha,ha) I know what you are thinking but outer west st and Onota Lake are where the GOBSIGS reside they won’t want mazeman morales to wreck their speedway in and out of Gotham. Well if the city can put speed bumps all over the side streets of the Pitts where no was hit or killed I believe he can rise to the challenge of keeping our kids, undocumented, houseless and taxpayers last safe!
I’m just wondering why Nick Russo, who is well aware of the local stats, chose to do his public pedestrian audit on Tyler Street when the majority of our car versus pedestrian fatalities are happening on the west side.
The city has done nothing to address it either.
It’s almost as if they’re practicing eugenics…
Pittsfield’s millionaire Andrea Francesco Nuciforo Junior is throwing a “POT PARTY” on Sunday, July 20th, 2025, at his East Boston marijuana dispensary.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/berkshire-roots-east-boston-celebrates-130000549.html
It is his 5-year Anniversary of selling marijuana products at his “Berkshire Roots” pot store in Boston.
Great column Dan!
The alphabet flag is a political issue so why is this flag allowed to fly on government property?
How many councilors are part of the LGBQ political movement?
We need an entirely new crop of councilors but you are right, Dan, apathy rules.
Because democRATS have severe TDS, hate America and the America First Movement, they have planned another wackjob get together this Saturday.
Because “Save Democracy,” “Trump is a Nazi,” and the “No Kings” rally were utter flops and didn’t move the needle one iota, the democRATS have decided to roll out another “rally theme” and have another get together.
This Saturday’s the democRATS will hold the “Good Trouble” rally throughout the Berkshires.
**I wanted to point out that the Cultural Competency Coach, Shirley Edgerton, is the guest speaker at the Bitchfield rally.
Some “Good Trouble” would be asking Shirley how she legally spent ARPA money on an all-expense paid African vacation for family and friends, when she is done with her speech.
‘Good Trouble’ Rallies Planned in Berkshires / iBerkshires.com – The Berkshires online guide to events, news and Berkshire County community information.
Could you imagine the problems Bitchfield could solve if they focused on local issues like the PHS principal’s pedophile and drug dealing scandals, getting the junkies and bums off every street corner in the city, and the rising violent crime problem (2 shootings and 1 stabbing last weekend alone), instead of letting President Donald Trump live rent-free in their heads?
No, me either.
It’s easier for “leaders” like Tricia Farley-Country Buffet (d-illegal aliens) and Mayor Lumpy Marchetti, to distract and fool the weak minded like TSC, JM, and Meanwhile (Larry Bird), so they’ll pump out democRAT talking points about how Trump is destroying or taking away………(fill in the newest democRAT mantra).
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/southern_berkshires/taft-farm-watermelon-crash-charges/article_476327da-4aca-4469-b980-b12479a1f5fb.html
Show us the child.
At least Warren still goes to the meetings. You people have one job. Show up at City Hall one day in July. Couldn’t do it. You should all be primaried.
Dan, not sure if you have Facebook, but if you do, go to “The 411 Pittsfield Open Forum,” page and take a look at the photo a guy posted.
It’s of a couple of junkies, or “houseless” as Wimpy White has labeled them, using drugs in the posters backyard. On his picnic table no less. I tried to cut/paste it for The Planet, but it only opens up to a FB login link, not the actual photo.
It’d make a nice vacation brochure and city slogan stating, “Welcome to Bitchfield, where “grant money” (aka-kickbacks) take high priority over public safety or taxpayers wishes.