‘HOUSELESSNESS’ AND THE COuNCIL: STILL NO ROOM AT THE INN
BY DAN VALENTI
PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY
(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY AUG. 18, 2025) — As THE PLANET extends our VAY-KAY time, we will offer this quick comment on “houselessness” to jump start another week of community discussion. As you know, we are the only media site left for real-time, uncensored remarks.
For the city of Bitchfield, the feckless city council continues to show all the spine of a tub of goo spilled from a Tupperware container. THE PLANET‘s Right Honorable Good Friends met for their sole August meeting and decided …
… nothing.
The issue’s been too hot for them handle. Approving more tax increases is more their speed, and instead of keeping the meeting going, they punted and shanked the kick. Of course, Mayor Lumpy has been just as bad, bowing to pressure from the “Homes Not Handcuffs” bunch. We’re not saying who’s right and who’s wrong on an insolvable issue that has valid arguments on both sides, but Lumpy’s career of licked fingers and cowardly vacillation has added a fourth star to his epaulets. The guy simply won’t take a stand. He lacks the confidence.
Incidentally, the vote to extend the meeting failed, with the following councilors deeming their time too precious to deal with the matter. They call it arrogance, right Costa-Plenty, Britt No-Doz, Sleepy Conant the Barbarian, and Dizzy Dina? Those who rightly wanted to keep going needed a supermajority of 8 votes. The measure to extend failed 7-4.
During the chaos amid the discussion, the cliche “root causes” rang out, as in the city’s proposal failed to address the issue’s underlying causes What advocates for the homeless fail to sufficiently realize, merely providing a dwelling for someone doesn’t address the reasons they are without shelter. A private home doesn’t cure addiction or mental illness, nor will it magically supply a job with a living wage. Both sides continue to miss the point, although THE PLANET will take fiery Michael Hitchcock’s frankness over the maggot words of the politicians.
THE PLANET offer no solutions. We shall leave that to our readers.
Meanwhile, we are heading for lands out of range and touch. We have our anti-GPS death ray switched to the “on” position.
Stay well, everybody!
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“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”
LOVE TO ALL.
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Hitchcock is full of shit and so is Lumpy. There is NO and I mean No item or law anywhere where…That says…The City of Bitchfield has to supply housing for the Houseless.
Homeless people are the lifeblood of advocacy groups.Advocate$ can’t code. So the homeless must remain.
Then why does Boston send them to Pittsfield?
Then why does the government spend so much money on social services?
Then why do we have charities?
Then why do we….fill in the blank….?
Still waiting for your address Johnny. We can send them to New Hampshire.
Tax write offs for wealthy people
You really are asking why Boston sent them to Bitchfield JM?
Your “lovely,” Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont brought (or is it was bought?) a bunch of bums, drug addicts, and mentally unstable Boston-area people, during the China-flu scamdemic for “grant money.”
Flat Tyer-Clairmont’s grant money haul not only brought us the Ricky Rumpus Roundabout on Tyler Street, but it also made outsiders jealous of the “diversity and inclusion” it brought to the area
OP wrote above why the government spends “so much money on social services.” Follow the money.
If there weren’t any bums or drug addicts to spend tax money on, how would a bureaucrat with a degree in “cultural studies” find work?
Why do we have charities? Why not?
People can spend or donate their money the way THEY WANT. That’s called Capitalism and a free market. People who work for a living and earn their own money usually creates jealousy amongst the welfare rats and those dependent on da guberMINT. They believe taxpayers should pay for their addiction fueled, lazy, existence.
Hitchcock is a clown
Don’t give Putin any fucking land diplomatically. If theK G B murder machine wants to continue his bulkshit then put sanctions in him immediately and support Ukraine with N A T O.
Will Zelensky be wearing the same stinky sweatshirt as at last February’s visit to DC , today?
After Trump and Vance put the little cross dressing Tyrant in his place, he was insolent and un-greatfull, for the billions in $$$ US taxpayer dollars Biden gave him to launder. He then pouted and left a pauper empty handed.
It’s reported Zelensky is afraid of Vance and fears he may be at the meeting today.
Trump is going to give Zelensky another check, a reality check , for $0 US Taxpayer dollars.
Part II today?
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1895529044419969156
“https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg Zelensky is getting absolutely EVISCERATED in the Oval Office right now
VP: “Do you think that it’s respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?”
TRUMP: “You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards … You’re gambling with the lives of millions of people! You’re gambling with World War III!”
Putin just told trump…”You have no cards anymore. Get back on your plane and go home.” And trump could not get out of there fast enough. Even the Fox news reporter on site said trump and his contingent came out of the meeting with looks of shock on their faces. As if someone had just read the riot act to them. Putin is done playing head games with a guy who does not even respect his own soldiers.
Putin was impressed by the B2 and F22s flyover in Alaska.
Zelensky is forced to beg for $$$ from other countries as POTUS Trump will not give him any more change for his “laundry machine”.
And the A$$CLOWN AWARD goes to ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Meanwhile!!
He dodges the Barry Obama Treason question and Bill Barr testified under oath yesterday that President Trump IS NOT on the Epstein list or it would have leaked during the Autopen Presidency.
Trump is alligned with Putins fascism not Ukraines democracy
Let the career politicians live on a part-time minimum wage job, Medicaid, at-risk of being homeless, in distressed neighborhoods with their own children attending Level 5 public schools in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Oh yeah, that is right, they don’t have to pound sand like the Underclass residents that Mayor Peter Marchetti is proposing to feed to the wolves with his fines on the have-not’s of inner-city Pittsfield.
Keep spending tens of millions of dollars more than similarly sized small cities, including the fact that Pittsfield spends over $62 million per fiscal year more than Westfield.
The fictional Kapanski’s won’t thank you for the 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics pounding people’s purses….and….persecuting people.
Pittsfield politics other name is RETRIBUTION!
Speaking of pounding your pud did you ever find out if your PHS pocket pool state championship plaque is still displayed at PHS or did your cousin Mayor Pete take it down? Cutting off the bottoms of your pants pockets to allow for maximum pud play time was your bread and butter to a state championship Jonny.
Sarcasm: That was really mature for a Caveman!
It is not that SOME can’t escape“homelessness“
or poverty”. With housing,
food, utilities, clothing,
medical, education that is
provided by government,(taxpayers) what they can’t
escape is -dependence on drugs.
How many times do we have to beat this into your thick skulls? Homelessness and addiction are not the same thing. There are senior couples out there—clean, sober, with actual incomes—who are still homeless. And yet here you are, still spouting ignorance. This is exactly why no one respects you or wastes their time in conversation with you—because you’d rather stay willfully stupid than educate yourself.
August 18, 2025
When social institutions allow the Underclass residents to be homeless, panhandle, live in poverty, not having access to affordable healthcare and insurance, and so on, without adequate assistance, then it is a STRUCTURAL ASSAULT that we all still pay for.
It still costs taxpayers a lot of money to pay for the Underclass. The reasonable policy is called TARGETED ASSISTANCE. Find ways to meet the needs of the people who live at the ROCK BOTTOM of society, such as shelter, food aid, community clinics for healthcare, government assistance, disability programs, and the like.
The “Big 3” of abuses, conflicts and violence are:
1. Interpersonal Assaults, such as verbal assaults and physical assaults.
2. Structural Assaults, such as homelessness, poverty, joblessness, uninsured, and the like. This is the exact illustration of Mayor Peter Marchetti’s CRUEL proposals for homelessness and panhandling in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
3. Cultural Assaults, such as racism, sexism, and so on. This is the exact illustration of the EVIL leadership of Adolf Hitler close to 100 years ago, and the misguided leadership of Donald Trump’s MAGA White Nationalist so-called Christian political leadership today in 2025.
When we see any or all of the “Big 3”, we are supposed to STOP the abuses, conflicts and violence, and then we are supposed to find positive resolutions to make everyone whole again.
Why is this so difficult for people to understand?
Mayor Peter Marchetti has been called CRUEL, a FASCIST, a BULLY, a STRUCTURAL RACIST, and other derisive names. He is a CONTROVERSIAL leader in Pittsfield. He is named in a federal sex discrimination/harassment civil lawsuit by Victoria May against the Pittsfield Cooperative Bank when Peter Marchetti was one of her three men managers there a few years ago.
My solution to all of what lies ahead at the September 09th, 2025, Pittsfield City Council meeting is to call out Mayor Peter Marchetti, and ask him to resign from his current elected position. Enough is enough! Mayor Peter Marchetti has DISGRACED himself.
Jon Melle
Why did the Liberals on Beacon hill dump the State’s Eastern homeless Addicts in the Berkshires under the ruse of Covid, with no contingency plans for their future? Diversity? Inclusiveness?
A lot of the Hobo’s hear through the grapevine Pittsfield is where it’s happening. A lot of free stuff, a police department that’s not enforcing the laws. Also can hang out in the middle of the road and receive money from progressive liberals. Not to mention the new daycare center opening up next month and a shooting gallery on Maplewood. Plus new Hobo housing units going up. Yeah, it’s Happening in Downtown Pittsfield!
I agree with you VV. And sadly the situation is going to get much worse and their is nothing, nothing, that can stop it. The more money sucked out of the lower income people into the hands of the wealthy assures this very sad situation.
The country is in an economic spiral on many levels and even if the federal government wanted to help it is too late. This administration has yanked out many of the pillars supporting the economy many of them of a global nature. Much of the world does not even want to do business with us. Trump has been mean, spiteful and vindictive to both our enemies and allies. There is no longer a government on the planet that trusts America and they are all either overtly or covertly moving away from trading with us and forming new alliances. Farmers are losing their farms. Business are closing.
08 Jul, 2025
63 US corporate bankruptcies in June set up 2025 for highest pace since 2010By Sean Longoria and Umer Khan
The fast pace of monthly US corporate bankruptcies extended into June and put 2025 on track to be one of the busiest years for filings in more than a decade.
S&P Global Market Intelligence recorded 63 new bankruptcy filings from certain public and private companies in June, down from a revised count of 64 in May. The data includes companies with public debt and assets or liabilities of at least $2 million or private companies with assets or liabilities of at least $10 million at the time of filing.
Still, 371 bankruptcy filings have been recorded throughout 2025, the highest total for the first half of the year since 2010.
Corporate liquidity has largely worsened in 2025 as debt levels for many companies have risen and the US Federal Reserve is poised to hold benchmark interest rates at their current level through the summer. Consumer spending, meanwhile, is straining under the weight of a cooling job market, inflation still above monetary policymakers’ targets and the Trump administration’s tariffs.
Home AG-Finance Farm Bankruptcies Surge in 2025, Raising Alarms Across U.S. Agriculture
Farm Bankruptcies Surge in 2025, Raising Alarms Across U.S. AgricultureBy
Jim Eadie
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July 16, 2025
The U.S. agricultural sector is facing renewed financial stress in 2025, as farm bankruptcies rise sharply, reflecting deepening economic pressures across the countryside — including among pork producers.
According to multiple reports, including recent data from Bloomberg Law, the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chapter 12 farm bankruptcy filings jumped 55% in the past year compared to 2023 and are trending even higher in 2025.
Between April 1, 2024, and March 31, 2025, there were 259 Chapter 12 filings nationally, with the first quarter of 2025 alone seeing 88 filings — nearly double the 45 filings recorded during the same period in 2024.
**Severe TDS and Meanwhile posting as another name ALERT**
I couldn’t edit my last Meawhile TDS post.
usually he posts under multiple names and answers his own statements…..
Taken right out of the President Autopen playbook.
I could not help but notice that you did not refute any of either post regardless of who posted it. both posts are quite accurate and actually only the tip of the iceberg as far as Americas economic collapse. trumps house of cards is falling in real time right in front of us and they next three moths are going to be brutal.
There are Real Facts and Fox Facts and you need to look beyond the smog lest ye be caught blindsided in the storm without a paddle
Bankruptcies started during the Biden years and have continued due to his disastrous economic policies. It will take years to turn this ship around
They are most definitely in some cases related! As I stated “SOME”. I know that for a fact as a young family member had everything one could want, good family, great job, a beautiful home to live in etc.., but because of a DRUG addiction lost everything and became HOMELESS and suffered POVERTY for sometime because of the addiction. The whole family tried to help to no avail because the person wanted drugs and not help. The person couldn’t even play by the rules (drug use) when different family members tried to shelter, feed, spend $ to help get clean .
So what? Sometimes divorce happens because of domestic violence. Should every single divorce automatically be labeled that way? I mean, if you’re divorced, you must be an abuser or a cheater, right?
STOP lumping people together and spitting out lazy assumptions. This kind of blanket judgment is exactly why no real solutions ever come forward—you don’t want knowledge, you want easy narratives. Instead of facing facts, you just slap labels on people you think are beneath you. And in doing so, you’ve made yourself part of the problem.
Talk about thick sculls! I stated SOME are Homeless and in Poverty because of addiction, not all who are homeless for whatever other reasons.That’s not lumping everyone together.
The point is that is the first bullshit thing that comes out of your mouth when speaking about those who are unhoused. Enough is enough. Stop talking about addiction every time homelessness is discussed. They are not one in the same and people like you continue to speak ignorance and stupidity without facts.
Not all of the Homeless are addicts, but most of the Addicts are homeless.
Make the connections on your own.
Actually most of the addicts are on Wall street or doing surgery in an operating room. True story. And a whole bunch of em are politicians.
Obfuscation and deflection is a Leftist and Liberal response/trait, when their talking points/mantras are faced with the truth and facts.
Here’s some truth and facts:
Poverty, Crime, Racial/Ethnic Violence, Gangs, Riots, Single or No Parents, Teen Pregnancy, Illiteracy, Ignorance, Dishonesty, Insanity, Poor Health, Depression, Gender Dysphoria, Insanity, Incompetence, No Work Ethic, Joblessness, Homelessness, Hopelessness, Suicide, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Destruction of Communities, Dependence on Government
—- are intentional features of Democrat programs and governance.
Most surgeons are addicts? You make that up too.
They say it makes them sharper and more focused. I always bring a supply of dope to a surgery in case my doc has forgotten his.
But sometimes I just do the surgery myself as a learning experience. Good way to save a buck as well and the headaches of all that paperwork. Going to do a hip replacement next week if the parts come in. Will post pics if it goes well.
Please share.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/owf446Z1K2I
Sharing in case anyone else feels comfortable doing their own. Basically if you have a hole saw and a screw driver you are good to go.
Most addicts are employed, housed and voted for Trump.
If so, they are the majority of American voters.
In fact, most of America does not have your level of TDS.
Says the witch who has a hut on North Street.
It is obvious that Vendetta Val doesn’t really have a grasp on the entire causes of the homeless situation.
Well we know the real solutions DO NOT include housing them, when that happened at St. Joe, with a vendor (ServiceNet) helping the “houseless were so Thankful they crapped everywhere inside and outside…and not in toilets, so they don’t need them either. Let’s go back to calling them what they really are by law, vagrants. Arrest and move them out. Berkshire County’s jail does a great job at rehabilitating and could really help turn them into active participants in a civilized society.
If the clowncil really cared about the houseless of the Pitts then they would all resign their positions off $10,000.00 a year of doing nothing so the houseless could have money and health benefits for doing exactly what they do now,,,,nothing! How can our government leaders only work 3 hours for one night and decide that is too long and stressful. In the old days the leaders would have stayed until the issue was resolved, and I believe they were all volunteer, pathetic!
They also get free health insurance and an expense account.
Evidently the Pittsfield Police Department has stopped posting their Police Log. What’s the City Administration trying to hide now? Since the Eagle neglects to print articles or crime, the Police Log was the only way to see what was going on in your neighborhood.
Heard it through the grapevine………
WOAH.This mess is not on the PPD. They no longer have any technical or digital expert inside the department—that was stripped away. The real problem sits at City Hall with Kevin Zawistowski, the CIO. Maybe start by asking him how well he’s handling the massive technical and digital demands of the police department. Then, go ahead and ask the officers themselves what it’s like trying to operate without trained, capable tech support.
Don’t put this on the PPD. The chaos you’re seeing is the direct result of City Hall corruption bleeding into the department. If you’re looking for accountability, stop scapegoating and start calling out the actual problem.
https://www.pittsfieldma.gov/Directory.aspx?DID=25
The white guilt non-profit ran by one of the no cuffs bozos can’t even operate a king Kone. They own 2 properties downtown and only use their 1 viable storefront as a part time food pantry.
then tubby dews gets up and offers no solutions but grandstands on unity and working together. No shame in that hack fraud.
homeless people have always existed as cities grow in size. Just because you’ve never left Pittsfield doesn’t mean it’s a unique problem just for us. Albany, Hartford, Springfield etc.
I am not sure, but I hope readers realize the importance of Dan Valenti’s article. Dan understands current political events, and the ability and knowledge to correct and explain the true story. Thanks, Dan, hope it is possible to keep it up.
I am thankful for blogger Dan Valenti, too, because he does not have an agenda like most of the news media and blogs out there. He calls the hits, strikes and balls, and errors….
Just a suggestion for the Mayor and CC members. How about asking the dispatchers for the police and fire departments to keep a running tally for one week on how many overdoses, well being checks, drunkenness, substance abuse, shop lifting and Section 12 and Section 35’s they have to deal with just around the downtown area. Maybe when the Mayor and CC see it in writing they will finally realize what taxpayers are dealing with as they don’t believe us now. Because of this behavior most of the police cruisers spend their days in the downtown area babysitting these folks. It’s no wonder the traffic issues are out of control, the police can’t be in two places at once, their babysitting duties take priority. Us taxpayers are also footing the bill for all the free ambulance rides these folks get every day only to spend a couple hours at the ER and then released to pick-up where they left off. Change is needed to make the downtown area safe again. Changing the bike lane pattern AGAIN is not the solution. The Mayor and CC members need to get their heads out of their egotistical butts.
Drug addiction, poverty and mental health and zero support cause homeless.We need to build small places with a shower maybe 12 by 16 one room secure cubicles with heat.No other city or town does anything for these people.
These final FY 2024 numbers surpass VA’s goal by over 16%, marking the largest number of Veterans housed in a single year since FY 2019
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced it housed 47,925 Veterans experiencing homelessness in FY 2024, surpassing its goal to house 41,000 Veterans by 16.9% and marking the largest number of Veterans housed in a single year since FY 2019. VA also ensured that 96% of the Veterans housed during this time did not return to homelessness. This follows last month’s announcement that VA had surpassed its FY 2024 housing goal a month early.
Ending Veteran homelessness is a top priority for VA and the entire Biden-Harris Administration. Since FY 2022, VA has permanently housed nearly 134,000 homeless Veterans, and the total number of Veterans experiencing homelessness in the U.S. has fallen by over 4% since early 2020 and by more than 52% since 2010.
“Nearly 48,000 formerly homeless Veterans now have a safe, stable place to call home — and there’s nothing more important than that,” said VA Secretary Denis McDonough. “No Veteran should experience homelessness in this nation they swore to defend. We are making real progress in this fight, and we will not rest until Veteran homelessness is a thing of the past.”
VA has also made progress in combating Veteran homelessness in the Greater Los Angeles area, permanently housing 1,854 homeless Veterans this fiscal year — the most of any city in America (for the third year in a row) and exceeding VA’s FY 2024 goals for this region by 15.5%. Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s recent Point-in Time count revealed a 22.9% reduction in Veterans experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles between 2023 and 2024.
VA’s efforts to combat Veteran homelessness are grounded i
What about D-Gov Healey, kicking out homeless Veterans to make more room to house CRIMINAL ALIENS? Along with free board , medical, and education……..
Did You vote for her TSC?
Ha Ha. Four people unhappy that veterans were able to find housing. Cuz they agree with trump that vets are “suckers and losers”?
^^^^ D-Healey voter.
Brilliant TSC!!!
For those who won’t seek to change and get help…….Bigger rooms in the jails and mental institutions!
Lefties with TDS are nuttier than a squirrel turd, and proud of it! They spend all their time trying to one-up each other, vying to be the most craziest wacko.
We have a worsening homeless problem here in Pittsfield because of all of the illegal immigrants that the Democrats brought here. The Democrats should have been focused on finding affordable housing for Americans instead of bending over backwards to house illegal immigrants and spending millions of taxpayer dollars to do it. Just imagine how they could have solved the homeless problem here if they had their priorities straight.
Looks like you have solved the homelessness problem. Is electing a republican mayor a simple fix? Will the down and out among us refuse to live in a republican run city?
Some times problems seem insurmountable when the answer is right in front of our faces. If I remember correctly Mr Kerwood is/was/who knows these days, a republican and if he would run for mayor we may have a new beginning and he would probably allow a forensic audit as well.
I recall a conversation I had with Matt at a party in 2016
He was pro Hillary, and used the Nazi word with Trump.
You are wrong.
Meanwhile, are you trying to overtake TSC as the biggest bat$hit crazy. left-loon, on The Planet? Or have just run out of democRAT talking points and are grasping for straws now?
“….Mr. Kerwood is/was/who knows these days, a republican….”
First off, this statement in and of itself is absolutely stupid. Eddie Munster Kerwood, has been a tried-and-true, registered democRAT every year he’s been involved in Bitchfield politics. That goes back over 20 years.
Second, would a left-loon like former failed mayor Linda “Flat” Tyer-Clairmont, have a straight, white-male, Republican, on her staff? Not only no, but hell no.
She’s much like yourself Meanwhile. People who think Dirty Barry Clairmont, Mayor Lumpy, and Wimpy White, are “real men,” and that the thinking of traditional men, equates to “toxic masculinity.”
And lastly, MAGA Republicans, unlike you and your fellow democRATS, are staunchly opposed to racist programs like (D)idn’t (E)arn (I)t. Matt Kerwood has talked about how DEI helps bring “diversity and inclusiveness” into the workplace and community.
Saying Kufflinks Kerwood is a republican is about as foolish as me stating on here that Jonathan Melle has been selected to lead the NH MAGA Committee.
To paraphrase Gerry Doyle’s former proclamation, “It Ain’t Happening.”
August 19, 2025
I had breakfast with my Veteran friend who once lived in Pittsfield (MASS.) in NH this morning. He asked me what happened at the Pittsfield City Council meeting on August 12th with Mayor Peter Marchetti’s anti-homeless proposal. I told him that it was not dealt with, and that it will be voted on at the next City Council meeting on September 09th.
I said that the Mayor and City Council should write to Governor Maura Healey to let her know about the homeless residents that Boston sent to inner-city Pittsfield. My Veteran friend told me that they should contact the State Representatives instead, who would then ask for a meeting with the Governor.
I told my Veteran friend that the State Representatives are useless “back-benchers” in Boston, and that the Governor would not take them seriously. She did not take me seriously when her office emailed me to contact Pittsfield officials who failed to address the alleged scandals at Pittsfield High School (PHS), which is my Alma Mater, Class of 1993.
I told my Veteran friend that when my dad was a politician in Berkshire County decades ago now, the State Representatives did not like it when I talked to them. I said that the State Representatives would snap back at me. I said that the State Representatives are only interested in money, and people saying “Yes” to them.
My point of this letter is that it is futile for “Jon Melle” the “have not” whose native hometown is Pittsfield to exercise my free speech in the government that has turned into an Oligarchy. Governor Healey’s administration sent the homeless people from Boston to Pittsfield, Mayor Peter Marchetti wants to fine them for being homeless in Pittsfield, and the State Representatives think that they are Royalty to be praised for being useless in Boston.
Jon Melle
Did you guys discuss how failed MA Gov Maura Healey has destroyed the Commonwealth with her TDS?
$1,000,000,000 went to house illegal aliens. Not towards US Veterans or even the “underclass,” who you constantly post about on here. That money couldn’t have helped them. Or cities in MA dealing with the “houseless” problem created by the Autopen Presidency bringing in millions of illegal aliens without a thought to house them.
Healey ends $1B shelter program, rival says essentially ‘I told you so’ | Fox News
I bet you two Vets were furious about the way Gov Healey $hit on US Vets and kicked them out of housing, in favor of illegal aliens.
Battenfeld: Healey faces more national heat over her treatment of Massachusetts veterans
And finally, I bet you two Veterans talked about when Barry Obama and his treasonous band of deep staters created the “Russian Hoax” and ordered the FBI not to investigate Killary Clinton, so it wouldn’t hurt her presidential election chances.
You do you remember the oath of office you took when you signed up for the US Army? To protect against all enemies foreign and domestic.
In case you forgot:
The Oath of Enlistment (for enlisted):”I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”
Yes, the only homeless having a roof over their heads are the homeless coming from other countries…the illegal immigrants. The Democrats paid hundreds of dollars per night for them to stay in fancy hotels, they are helping them with rent, and even pushed to have Massachusetts residents take them into their homes. Nothing of this magnitude was ever done for the homeless of America. Even if anyone thinks that there is no obligation to provide housing for American homeless then you should also put down the huge amounts of money spent to house illegal immigrant homeless.
But you won’t find anywhere where Healy (or any other person in government) called our Veterans “suckers and losers”. Only one guy did that publicly and with a sneer on his face when he did it..Right? You saw it too.
TDS ALERT!! TDS ALERT!!
He never said that A$$clown. Do a quick google search and you’ll see for yourself.
It was a hoax, much like J6 and the China-flu scamdemic, to try and help Autopen’s chances and steal the election from Trump.
Yep. He made that up too. He’d be surprised that is just like Kerwood and Tyer.
Compare Veteran Affairs under Traitor Joe Autopen vs POTUS Trump.
QED
Healey and the Dems never say anything publicly they do everything behind closed doors where no light gets in,,,,just like the commies they are! For the life of me I can’t figure out why the so called intelligent voters keep voting their rights and freedoms away
Did you move to NH , so you wouldn’t be kicked out of MA Veteran’s housing, to make room for foreign criminals?
The “HERO Act” in Massachusetts refers to the most comprehensive legislation for veterans ever passed in the Commonwealth. Signed into law by Governor Maura Healey in August 2024, it aims to modernize and expand veterans’ services by enhancing inclusivity and support.
Key provisions of the HERO Act include:
Improved access to behavioral health services.
Increased benefits for disabled veterans. This includes expanding the motor vehicle excise tax exemption to veterans with a 100% service-connected disability rating or those deemed unemployable by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Incentives for businesses that employ veterans.
An updated and more inclusive definition of “veteran”.
An expanded role for the Veterans Equality Review Board.
Codified access to medical and dental benefits.
In essence, the HERO Act represents a significant step towards ensuring that veterans in Massachusetts receive the care, compassion, and services they need and deserve.
NOTE: All FACTS
Obfuscation and deflection on your part Johnny.
D-Healey kicked Veterans out of shelters to house, CRIMINAL ALIENS, to the tune of ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
I as a US CITIZEN, I paid for this through my taxes, that were purloined and squandered by our crooked Governor.
Tom Homan needs to arrest BOTH D-Healey and Boston mayor D-Wu and deliver them to the DOJ for prosecution and trials.
I’ll be happy to have my taxes pay for, their free room and board, for a lengthy incarceration at a Federal “Crowbar Hotel”
So, she did this AFTER she kicked out US Veterans out of housing in favor of illegal aliens, and you’re OK with that?
If a person beats you up JM and steals your money from you, but then turns around and buys you a new shirt with the money he stole from you because he “feels bad,” that’s OK with you?
Why not answer my post above?
I included links with my post that contained All FACTS
Did you vote for a Mayor with a big beer belly who spends over $226.2 million per fiscal year 2026 of our taxpayer dollars while proposing punitive measures against the Underclass residents of Pittsfield?
At least he is not Voltron the porkchop who thinks that everyone on the City Council is wonderful, while the public speakers say otherwise.
The 2-Pete’s Pittsfield politics pounds people’s purses, and persecutes people with their retribution, while they spend tens of millions of dollars more than similarly sized small cities such as Westfield.
Like I said fruit fritz,Vlad is bad. Trump will not win a diplomatic solution with Russia. Trump doesn’t want nukes. Your volley fruit buffoon fritz.
Mayor big belly of Bitchfield BErkshire County.
Please. Let’s stop the Current Trump events on here. I voted Trump to get inflation,prices and energy prices under control, He’s doing the illegal exits just fine. I don’t give two shits about Putin,let NATO U S involved take care of it. Trump doesn’t need to be the broker on this or in Israel.
What the hell is wrong with you people. We currently are having a mass exit of our Seniors right here in Bitchfield. A 226 million budget? For What?
Dan you should be concentrating on everything local here. We are currently being swallowed up by these Demo-CRATS tax and regulations nonsense.
Let me give you one item that could save hundreds of thousands in the Schools for instance. The job description…Reset Teacher. Not needed. Never Needed. Start there.
A lot of these positions are mandated by the State. Politicians that are in bed with the Unions.
Trump say there’s a Warmth and Decent Feeling between him and Puking? ( Putin ) Maybe Trump is a fucking Lunatic. Plain and Simple.
Tough to negotiate with someone while insulting them. Much easier when you butter them up…common sense really. Something liberals lack.
They also miss the fact that the Russians have seized eat Ukraine and crimea. The Dems don’t have a plan to change that.
Oh that and Meanwhile us wrong about everything else he said today. He made up the Fox News reporter thing too.
here ya go Bud…view the whole thing
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-calls-out-donald-trump-for-no-question-press-conference/
Yes you did make it up. It’s a story about a someone allegedly to be a journalisf. who said he had nothing to reportabout Trump. I never heard of the dude who had nothing to report. Boring
In fact, it isn’t even written by the alleged to be a Fox News journalist. Probably mistaken identity and the author of your scoop-about-nothing-to-report wrote it in his bathtub at the Holiday Inn.
August 19, 2025
Westfield’s fiscal year 2026 budget: $163.84 million
Pittsfield’s fiscal year 2026 budget: $226.2 million
Net difference between Westfield and Pittsfield’s budget is $62.36 million from July 01, 2025 – June 30, 2026.
Westfield and Pittsfield are two similarly sized small cities in Western Massachusetts.
How does the Berkshire Eagle and other news media outlets and blogs not cover Pittsfield’s spending spree under Mayor Peter Marchetti?
On September 09th, 2025, the Pittsfield City Council will vote on Mayor Peter Marchetti’s encampment ban proposal against the homeless residents that he wants to fine for the “crime” of sleeping outside with no other alternatives.
Doesn’t anyone understand economics and finance? The landlords have to pass on higher monthly rent bills to the working-class renters due to the fact that Mayor Peter Marchetti is spending over $62 million more than Westfield.
This is NOT rocket science! The problem is not the homeless sleeping outside. The problem is the career politicians – Governor Maura Healey – who dumped poor people from Boston in distressed cities such as Pittsfield, Mayor Peter Marchetti spending tens of millions of taxpayer dollars more than Pittsfield should, and then he wants to fine them because they need to sleep outside with no other alternatives.
Pittsfield is broken. Boston is broken. The career politicians – Governor Maura Healey and Mayor Peter Marchetti – are misguided and wrong on this matter. The State Representatives are useless in Boston.
Who will step up between now – August 19th, 2025 and the City Council meeting on September 09th, 2025 – to call out the Governor in Boston and Mayor of Pittsfield alike on their failed leadership?
Governor Maura Healey cut hundreds of millions of dollars in state funding for social services.
Pittsfield is spending tens of millions of dollars more than they should. Pittsfield is facing crises with homelessness and panhandling.
Mayor Peter Marchetti is being called a cruel bully, a fascist, and a structural racist by protesters. The common city taxpayers are struggling to pay for his spending spree.
What gives?
Jon Melle
In the Cruel and Unusual Punishment category experienced by thousand of Massachusetts License holders. The Newly Weaponized Registry of Motor Vehicle’s are adding on Suspension to Drivers,some dating decades and generations ago,adjudicated no less and prohibiting any driving unless you pay todays rate fine from that infraction, ( sometime thousands) and in many cases make you use a brethylizer machine for ignition costing thousands?
There are many-suspensions after adjudication where there is flawless driving since but still they suspend the licens
They ( R M V ) adding a suspension to your previous record which could result in jail time on a subsequent offense,isn’t that enough. Which Is great if you are a habitual offender. But the fine is the kicker.
If you don’t pay it you have to fight it and you’re gonna lose anyway, because the fine is 20 times what you were originally fined decades ago abd hearings are months away and you can’t drive. What the fuck is wrong with our politicians.
The Lawyers are surely making money on this.
Jon every other word out of your mouth is Mayor Pete Marchetti I think your jealous of your cousin
JM :
Doesn’t anyone understand economics and
finance?
OP:
People that work and earn a paycheck and not just handed money or freebies for doing nothing, tend to have a better grasp of it.
“Decades of abuse” at Miss Hall’s…….
https://www.wamc.org/news/2025-08-19/private-law-firms-report-support-claims-of-sexual-abuse-at-berkshire-county-boarding-school
Did the call it SYNTHETIC?
Funny how all the lying liberals are very silent on this, shouldn’t the school be shut down? If you know who was the headmaster you know all the DA’s and Judges would be circling to get their money cups filled and to close the school pronto, of course with a photo op “for the children”! A question if the liberals contend the brain is not an adult brain until 26 why is sexual consent in the law books at age 16?????
Resign Tish!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/special-prosecutor-ed-martin-calls-letitia-james-resign/
Tish blows.
End the war now……
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/hacked-ukrainian-database-reveals-kiev-has-suffered-17/
A small business sarcastically thanked Mayor Peter Marchetti for its closing with a sign.
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/sign-at-gas-station-blaming-mayor-for-closure/image_152dae59-56af-48ff-96c9-7f6c576b21a5.html
Why is he still in elected office? He is a FAILED leader in Pittsfield politics!
Trump wont let Bondi release the Epstien files because he said he never met Epstien…Trumpers love FOX indoctrination
I’ll just leave this here for you, Meanwhile, and JM.
Keep in mind, he testified under oath…..
Nick Sortor on X: ” BREAKING: Former AG Bill Barr testified under oath today that President Trump is in NO WAY implicated in the Epstein files, and if he was, Biden would’ve leaked it That narrative is now out the window, as Barr would ABSOLUTELY take down Trump if he could. “[Barr] said that https://t.co/UcbMJuAjWq” / X
Trumpers think FOX cohosts arebqualified to rule the world
That might be because after what the world saw after 4 years of the way Biden and company ran everything that anyone is actually more qualified.
My cat buries stuff in the litterbox more qualified than the prior infestation of the White House 2021-2025,
11 of 73 comments are Mele. Way too much Mele.
Mele is in the Thumbs Down all time Hall of Shame.
I think TSC and his all his other names are giving him run for his money
Carnival cruise lines has the classiest customers, NOT!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/total-chaos-sea-massive-brawl-erupts-carnival-cruise/
Obama’s monument to himself, while being accused of treason…..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/some-chicago-residents-unhappy-about-obama-presidential-center/
Law enforcement is the simple answer to the homeless on the streets and in the parks. This city is going down the shitter like the once beautiful Burlington Vermont downtown. It is all because of the enabling behavior of your elected officials. There are already city laws against being in the parks after dark, etc and the city fails to enforce them. It took the feds one week to move the bums along and lock up the shitbums. The same could be done in Pittsfield and not another penny is required to do it. Just the will.
Yo, Johnny, why did the chicken cross the road? To get away from the fake homeless person with the woe is me sign, and a 20 dollar box of Marlboro Reds in his pocket!
So Miss Halls did what the city refused to do. They paid for a real investigation and released the results. What a novel effing concept. This city’s mayor and school leaders should be ashamed of themselves.
Now they’ve revealed that a lot of kids won’t have a teacher this school year since working in Pittsfield probably results in you being blacklisted by other schools.
Teacher shortage, cop shortage. City has a black eye for integrity and no intelligent career seeker wants to get caught up in it. When you take a city job you become a part of it.
Pittsfield Public Bullshit has a captive audience.
Plus guaranteed funding
Marchetti could have gotten it released. He has that power. One wonders why he did not do it. Opt your kids out for safety because whatever is going on in his schools he does not want you to know about it. And that is scary.
The children’s parents involved in the PSD scandals should have contacted federal LE. You won’t get far seeking help in the mASSachsetts state of chaos.
70% Bitchers in Bitchfield vote for communists (Tyer, TFB, Healey, Kamala, Warren (both), Neal, and the Clowncil). They bring in their angels of graft Ricky Rumpass, police chiefs, privateers,. And look, they bitch about bad roads, high taxes, desolation. And here they go bitch bitch bitching about Donald Trump. They want the communists. But they don’t want to pay their price?
Only in Pittsfield, you send out the Street Sweepers in mid August, instead of late March when the Streets of full of sand from the Winter. WTF.
I saw two of them, go down the same side of Pomeroy Ave, twice on different days this month. And yes they were sweeping…….
Pittsfield has also not fixed a large amount of potholes. Basically the Public Works department and actually all Marchetti’s departments are run by a clusterfruck schedule. There is NO METHOD to their madness! The Public Works department creates more chaos than repairing it. The City is decorated with orange cones, barrels, dirt and filth. Wake up Marchetti and grow some balls and straighten out your Administration. All you did was continue where FlatTyer left off.
They also send out the City Garbage trucks daily, to every City park Saturday and Sunday too. I think weekly would suffice, unless they had a major event.
I wanted to share some excellent news with The Planet today.
The first domino of the treasonous deep staters has fallen. The FBI raided John Bolton’s house this morning seeking classified information.
Bolton is 100% a pro-war monger. Hope he likes prison.
One down, many more to go until the DOJ gets to the Manchurian Candidate, Bathhouse Barry Obama, or is it, Barry Soetero? O
Unless of course Barry “Vince Foster’s” himself and shoots himself 3 times in the back of his head “committing suicide.”
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-celebrates-john-boltons-home-being-raided-how-does-it-feel-2117725
So long you vote for communists, socialists, socialist democrats, progressives, democrats Bitchfielders will have plenty to bitch about.
On the blog PlanetValenti.com
I defend you, Governor Maura Healey, but then they post negative words.
As a permanent and total 100 percent disabled Veteran who served honorably in the U.S. Army myself, I believe that you have helped Veterans in Massachusetts.
I am a strong supporter of Governor Maura Healey. I hope that she will run for U.S. President in 2028, and that she will win the U.S. Presidency.
I feel badly that she faces so much negative criticism from the Trump supporters. But maybe she will pull our country out from under Trump’s authoritarian-like leadership.
You have a much better governor in Ayotte in New Hampshire (a veteran) than Massachusetts has in Healey. We will trade Healey for Ayotte and throw in Mayor WU and call it a day.
Jon, Its been reported that Gov. Healey and Massachusetts has spent 1 Billion dollars on housing illegal migrants yet there are many veterans on the streets that need mental and medical help. Don’t you think the veterans should have top priority? You must not they way you are backing her. So much for no man left behind.
Letter: “Pittsfield city charter changes should go before voters”
The Berkshire Eagle, August 22, 2025
To the editor: Before I spoke at the last City Council meeting against the proposed amendment to the city charter making the mayor chair of the Pittsfield School Committee, Councilor Kenneth Warren made a comment to me that there was not much of a point in speaking against the proposal as it would be going to the voters. (“Longer terms for city councilors and School Committee members could be on the November ballot, pending state approval,” Eagle, Aug. 15.)
Undeterred, I still decided to speak out against it.
Later on during the meeting, I became confused and then appalled when Councilor Warren made an amendment so that this change would not go to the voters. Why the sudden shift between before I spoke during public comment and the discussion on the amendment?
In a now deleted Facebook comment thread, another city councilor stated that this amendment doesn’t need to go to the voters as he believes the council knows what is best for the city, and that this would address what the council sees as issues with working with the School Committee.
I strongly disagree with this sentiment. The voters of this city voted back in 2013 to adopt the current version of the charter, and they should be the ones who decide what parts get changed and which parts remain. This is the voter’s charter, not the City Council’s to play around with.
The law even agrees. The statute the council is using to make this amendment says: “Whenever an order proposing a charter amendment to the voters is approved by the mayor and city council … a copy of the proposed amendment shall be immediately submitted to the attorney general…” So then, why does the City Council believe it has a mandate, let alone the authority, to make changes to the city charter without voter approval?
While I believe this proposal is misguided and very problematic, if the voters want to make the mayor chair of the Pittsfield School Committee, then they can vote to support the amendment at the ballot box. Not letting the voters decide on such an important matter would be a disservice to the city’s voters.
The more I hear about the council’s rationale for not sending this amendment to the voters, the more I fear that this is a hostile power grab by city leaders to micromanage the school department budget and its operations, potentially leading to devastating budget cuts. This power grab can and should be stopped at the ballot box.
William Garrity, Pittsfield
The writer is a Pittsfield School Committee member.
Correct conclusion: consolidation of power is bad. Observation that clowncilor lie alot and say things like, “we were elected because we know more and are smarter than the voters” is accurate. Sounds like warren – if his lips are moving, something’s up. Not good.
Argument and reasoning is demented. Garrity bases his conclusion on his belief that School Committee purpose is to spend as much money as possible in 9 months.
Just pure luck as we say to hit the mark but lacking ability. Kid gets a C-.
I think what he was saying, without actually saying it, was that if the special interests want the mayor to be the head of the school committee it will happen regardless of any councilor commentary or public vote. They always get their way one way or another. If they decide they want a mayoral term of 20 years it will happen. If they want the mayor to also be police chief it will happen.
Any suggestion that public opinion or a councilors input would change any special interest agenda is farcical and comical at the same time. And to substantiate this theory consider a city pushing full steam ahead on a mega million dollar entertainment venue (aka baseball stadium) during an economic meltdown where interest rates are very high, credit card debt is exploding, mortgage foreclosures are skyrocketing, food prices are ridiculous, electricity rates are at all time highs and predicted to continue to climb with no end in sight, building material costs through the roof, and they are already taxing their residents into poverty.
No sane overseer of a city government would do this unless it either had absolutely zero knowledge of how city finances work or was being controlled by outside forces it was terrified of to say no to.
PITTsfield city government = DemocRATS
enough said
You don’t see the homeless in surrounding towns because they don’t allow and neither should we kudos to Mayor Marchetti and the city council members who aren’t afraid to say they are for getting them off our streets where will they go ? Find another place you were booted from other towns well ya can’t stay here either !!! Stop catering to them Pittsfield and they will go
Give them one-way bus tickets to Springfield.
The Beacon Hill Mob did just that, with destination Pittsfield.
American schools should take some pointers from El Salvador’s
school system…..
https://www.breitbart.com/education/2025/08/22/el-salvador-schools-revamp-dress-code-civility-patriotism/
Letter: “I still don’t like location for Pittsfield ice rink”
The Berkshire Eagle, August 23, 2025
To the editor: Months ago, I wrote to The Eagle imploring city leadership to rethink the location of the proposed ice rink and choose the iconic location of The Common over Clapp Park. (“Pittsfield’s Clapp Park ice rink project meets its $200K fundraising goal,” Eagle, Aug. 10.)
That didn’t happen.
We all know how a similar bad choice to put the Berkshire Carousel tucked away in a non-prominent location next to CVS went. The chosen location for the ice rink at Clapp Park won’t even be visible from West Housatonic Street: out of sight, out of mind.
And now there is the news that our next-door neighbors in Lenox are also putting in an outdoor winter ice rink. (“Here’s how this pickleball court in Lenox will become an ice skating rink by December,” Eagle, Aug. 19.)
It doesn’t seem that psychology comes into play when considering logistics. We could have something iconic with hundreds or perhaps thousands of daily north-south drivers passing the rink and planning a family visit in their mind: in sight, in mind. Add on a meal at a local downtown eatery and finish it off with a movie at the Beacon. (And by that logic, the long-term desired destination of Wahconah Park isn’t any better.)
Instead of Pittsfield perhaps offering people a downtown destination outing incorporating skating, I believe most folks coming from out of town will now just change the end point in their GPS to Lenox, as they so often do. And probably a lot of folks coming from Pittsfield will, too.
It’s still August with beautiful sunny days, no leaves turning yet, and no snow or freezing temperatures in the forecast. So it’s not too late to reverse course on this decision and figure out how to make it work.
Neil Davis, Pittsfield
He should stop voting for communists. And encourage his friends and family to stop too.
I propose a roller skating rink at the mall. Can you imagine what speeds you could get up to going from Sears to the food court if you were wearing speedos and Pete Whites pointy Zoltron helmet?
This is an economic engine that Lanesboro is leaving untapped.
Jonny could get at the old Sears end of the mall with his light saber wearing his gold laurel wreath and a speedo and CC President Pete White could get at the Target end of the mall with his light saber and wearing his Wonder Woman costume and could skate as fast as they could towards the middle of the mall for an epic light saber battle. May the best swordsman win.
I was wondering what happened with the Munn’s case in Pittsfield?
From Google AI Mode on Sunday, August 24, 2025
In Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Gary and Danielle Munn are business owners and community figures who have received significant local media attention.
Business and professional background
Witch Slapped: The couple founded and operates this business. According to a GoFundMe campaign, Danielle runs Witch Slapped, while Gary provided eight years of “flawless service” to the city.
Fundraiser for legal fees: The Munns co-organized a GoFundMe fundraiser to cover legal expenses. The campaign alleges that Pittsfield City Hall targeted their family and business in a “modern-day witch hunt” after Gary reported corruption, waste, and abuse of power.
Accusations of retaliation: The fundraiser claims that in retaliation for Gary’s reporting, he was fired from his job after a series of “bogus investigations” and slander. Following this, the city allegedly began targeting Danielle and Witch Slapped.
Sometimes in a witch hunt, there actually is a witch to be hunted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPtjp7Scqcc
Seven minute video..last four most important. No American business s are leaving China…ever. follow this guy..he is an American businessman in China…lots of great information videos
Speaking of a witch hunt. There was testimony of a local bar that they were allegedly observed over serving and a disturbance outside the bar where many police officers and cruisers were there but the owner wasn’t aware of either incidents.
The owner has video of inside the bar but didn’t bring it to the license board hearing. One of the police officers at the incident didn’t show up. The video police cam evidence wasn’t available either. The Bar owner is very smart. She’ll get another continuance during the heavy business season.
See Meanwhile’s above post concerning special interests.
Please search: mass state officials use of credit cards in Massachusetts
on: news.google.com
Reports from the Boston Herald documented significant credit card state spending sprees of millions of dollars spent by Massachusetts state agencies on these credit cards in the last fiscal year, including instances of questionable spending at casinos.
State guidelines advise public agencies in Massachusetts to use publicly funded procurement cards only as a “payment of last resort”.
Poor fictional Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski family who dutifully pays their state and local taxes in Pittsfield, Massachusetts!
Healey won’t do anything about it, but blow smoke up the taxpayers a$$ about getting anything back.
Trumps 25 rape accusers and his Epstien file where he is his best sex friend of Epstien is never ever ever going away.When you are the biggest dunce in America and a fascist you must destroy the system of laws to survive.
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PITTSFIELD — Herberg Middle School’s new principal has been placed on administrative leave just days before the opening day of classes for undisclosed reasons.
But interim Superintendent Latifah Phillips is reassuring the Herberg community that there’s a team in place to make sure school opens smoothly on Thursday despite the absence of the principal, Ian T. Brown.
Get your kids out of this school district – it sucks big time.
There must be someone who has the inside scoop on what really happened. The school will never let us know since there is no transparency in Pittsfield Public Schools.
Between this story, the houseless sleeping and shitting in the parks with the city’s blessing, and a new report by state auditor documenting massive food stamp fraud, etc, there is enough for us Kapanskis’ to snap a band!
It is amazing how successful FOX propaganda is at getting old white men to send money to billionaires and cut Medicare and veterans bebefits and research into childrens cancers .Fox has depressed these poor victims of old age and hatred of their fellow Americans.Most made their money off the taxpayer in what they call socialism.FOX viewers are completely out in space with their anger.FOX is an infomercial for billionair tax cuts to blame the poor and powerless…so ignorant.
No Medicare or Medicaid has been cut or veterans benefits. All lies from the far left. President Trump says continually that he will not and has not cut these programs. These programs were dying along with the rest of the country when the Biden administration and the autopen were in charge.
Pat,
Says TDS Baghdad Bob of the rebrand “More Sh!t No One Wants “ Formerly MSNBC. I wondered what happened to that guy and now we know.
^^^^^ Make Insane Asylums Great Again!
Time, history, and truth are not on your side, but you could care less because you suffer from TDS which requires you to deliberately ignore anything that disputes your “truth”. Since you see no evidence your “truth” is wrong, then your“truth” must be right…
You can’t help people who don’t want help and have no desire to join society.
But, but, but….Mayor Peter Marchetti and Voltron CAN:
Spend over $62 million per fiscal year 2026 more than Westfield
Cut millionaire Nuciforo’s Berkshire Roots a city check for $341,000
Oversee Level 5 public schools
Cover-up the Pittsfield High School alleged scandals by spending $156,000 in city funds to an out of the area law firm for a report that was NOT released to the general public
Blame the Underclass for their own misguided leadership in Pittsfield City Hall
Pittsfield Public Schools once again is starting out with a BIG BANG. Of course once again they are hiding the truth from the taxpayers. Herberg Middle School newly hired Principal already given a leave of absence. Heard that Herberg is starting the school year out with a shortage of 8 teachers. Why? Was this the Principal’s job to do the hiring? Why wasn’t all the over paid Mercer school personnel not aware of this? Mayor Marchetti wants to be the head of the School Committee yet he was not aware of this latest Pittsfield School’s System “mishap”. Why is this just being announced 3 days before school starts? Once again taxpayers need truthful answers. Would love to know how much the enrollment in PPS’s has dropped this year, especially the high school age group. Yet we will never know, but the taxes will keep rising, won’t they Marchetti.
Bravo! Another useless DEI hire kicked out on her ass!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-08-26/good-riddance-lisa-d-cook
Are there any DEI success stories that can be verified and fact checked, to make sure it’s true and accurate?
One after the next, is either getting fired, criminally indicted, or both.
Da Dancin’ Dean, aka- Lady’z Man, Lavonte Wiggins, is Bitchfield’s shining example.
A black man with no formal education and an expired dancing certificate, got hired as a $100k a year PHS school administrator, simply for being a black man. No more, no less.
Did Pedofield Pubic Scohol’s very own DEI hire, Dancin’ Dean, make everyone proud by giving him his (literal) golden opportunity?
Nope, Da Dancin’ DEI Dean, got busted by the FBI selling large amounts of cocaine.
Letter: “A response to letter-writer’s concern on charter change proposal”
The Berkshire Eagle, August 26, 2025
To the editor: The Aug. 22 letter “Pittsfield city charter changes should go before voters” misrepresented both the process and the purpose of the proposed charter amendment.
This is not a power grab. It is about accountability. The mayor is already responsible for presenting and balancing the city’s overall budget, which includes the schools. Having the mayor serve as chair of the School Committee aligns that responsibility with clear leadership. Several Massachusetts cities already follow this structure.
The City Council is acting fully within its legal authority. Massachusetts law allows charter changes either through a commission process that goes to the ballot or through a council-approved petition sent to the Legislature. Both are legitimate. We are using the process the law provides.
Voters are not being cut out. Any charter change must go to the Legislature and then back to the city for acceptance. There are multiple levels of oversight built in.
What cannot be ignored is the past year. The Pittsfield High School investigation exposed a clear lack of accountability from the School Committee when serious problems surfaced. Parents, students and taxpayers expected openness. Instead, they saw delays, secrecy and excuses. The state itself ordered portions of the report released after ruling the district failed to justify withholding it. That is not what voters expect from their elected representatives.
This proposal to make the mayor the School Committee chair responds to those concerns. Transparency, collaboration and financial oversight have been missing. When the School Committee is not aligned with city government, it creates confusion and mistrust. Giving the mayor a defined role as chair creates accountability at the top, which benefits students, teachers and taxpayers.
The council is doing its job: debating policy, weighing options and making decisions in the best interest of the city.
Earl G. Persip III, Pittsfield
The writer is an at-large councilor and vice president of the Pittsfield City Council.
Congratulations fat Gut mayor.. you had a ribbon cutting ceremony for Burlington coat factory … Pittsfield and Holyoke had a fight who won? It was a tie