By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2014) — While our Right Honorable Good Friends last night plucked hangnails from the body politic and inserted bamboo shoots under the enamel, you can dismiss outright their significance. Opposition is enfeebled, reducing what little independence we see to tokenism, and […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2014) — Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrah: The names probably don’t mean much to you, though you’ve “heard” of them. They are the three Israeli teenagers whose tragic deaths prompted Israeli settlers to retaliate with the capture, torture, and […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JULY 14, 2014) — THE PLANET has learned new information about the recent sewage spill into the Housatonic River and adjacent farm land at the water department treatment plant on Industrial Drive off of Holmes Road. Some of the information confirms what we […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEEKEND EDITION, JULY 11-13, 2014) — Recently, THE PLANET has exposed a triad of Pittsfield’s tricky-dick dealings. Three examples include the filling of the Highway Department job, the careless leakage of raw sewage into the river and on farmland, and the mayor’s Capt. Queeg press […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014) — THE PLANET, through a variety of means, is privy to a lot of information and what the National Security State imaginatively calls “intelligence.” Much of it comes to us raw. From there, we examine and, if called for, turn […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014) — First, in an effort to do what the mayor is afraid of doing for you, we get fully transparent and share this e-mail we sent to the corner office inhabitant. We wrote to Hizzoner: ——– 000 ——– MAYOR BIANCHI […]
By DANVALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2014) — Welcome to the 1,000th column published here on THE PLANET since Sept. 30, 2010. Hoist one in our names, today, won’t you? Yesterday, The Berkshire Eagle published a letter to the editor from the mayor of Pittsfield, a man going […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary !!SEE STORY UPDATE!! BELOW (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014) — You gotta see this one to believe it. It neatly exemplifies the incompetence that has come to characterize The Empty Suit‘s (TES) tenure as mayor — this time, another incredible lapse by a department head. […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Tonight, for the first Thursday in the past nine, there will be no new Planet Valenti Television episode. All of the equipment is out of the studio and ready for the 4th parade. PV-TV will be back on Thursday, July 10. You won’t believe your eyes and […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 2014) — Under The Empty Suit (TES), the Global Montello energy company employee who play acts as the mayor of Pittsfield and pulls down nearly $88,000 a year+bennies from bedraggled city taxpayers, the hits just keep coming. A few years ago, […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2014) — THE PLANET today presents an exclusive on the first of two “secret” job situations. Each position is paid for by taxpayers. Each, the mayor has decided, should be decided without you knowing about it. The first pays $57,331+25% for […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014) — What is it about Massachusetts? Is our Kool-Aid not spiked with the jungle juice of common sense? Do we sit geographically too far right in these here contiguous 48? Does that explain the dreadful, one-party “moon bat” politics that […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEEKEND EDITION, JUNE 27-29, 2014) — THE PLANET said we would obtain a copy of the “Press Protocol” issued by Mayor Dan Bianchi June 24 (Tuesday) to all department heads. Today, we once again deliver, despite the fact that this was an “eyes only,” […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary NOTE: Tonight, Planet Valenti Television begins at 8 p.m. instead of its usual time at 7 p.m. We will run for the hour. That’s PV-TV on Time Warner’s “Access Pittsfield,” Channel 16. You won’t believe your eyes and ears. And Remember, the previous episodes of PV-TV can […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2014) — While we have a moment, allow us to catch up on some back mail that came in recently, which we are publishing here for the first time. The first letter is actually a copy of a letter sent a […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2014) — “You won! Your site is no longer blocked.” That was the best (for being the briefest and most to the point) among a bunch of communications we received yesterday morning after THE PLANET fought its way back from digital […]
