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WITH VIOLENCE OUT-OF-CONTROL, MAYOR FINDS NO MORE IMPORTANT ISSUE THAN DUMPING ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2014) — As one of THE PLANET‘s most astute commentators put it, where does one begin? Joe Pinhead‘s astute query does point out a tough one: With so many things crashing down now in the city, and particularly around its increasingly […]

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BULLETIN!! BIANCHI PAYS PLANET HIGHEST HONOR! HE BANS PLANET SITE ON CITY HALL COMPUTERS!! … plus … WELCOME, SKINS FANS, TO PC RUN AMOK

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEEKEND EDITION, JUNE 20-22) — This news just in from our wires here in The Fortress. BULLETIN! Mayor Dan Bianchi has paid THE PLANET the ultimate tribute: He has banned PLANET VALENTI DOT COM from all computers inside city hall. We knew we had […]

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I THINK THAT I SHALL NEVER SEE, A MAYOR AS LOVELY AS A TREE

 By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary EPISODE 7 of Planet Valenti Television was our most ambitious yet. It is available on the PCTV website and will be up on YouTube sometime soon. The YouTube link for all out shows is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjP38gC2WQcYx71Cz0tjwoQ/feed ——– 000 ——– (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2014) — With crime running rampant, with […]

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TOM, THE MAYOR’s IMAGINED ONE MAN CRIME WAVE, REMAINS AT LARGE (BUT WHERE ELSE CAN A PHANTOM GO?) … plus … HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION PERFORMS GREAT DISSERVICE TO WADE, BIANCHI … MALUMPHY, O’LEARY TAKE OVER MEETING FROM CUTLER AND EMBARRASS THE CITY

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE  17, 2014) — THE PLANET continues to shake up the city and make a difference. After a rash of what are being called “commercial burglaries,” the Pittsfield Police Department issued a report noting an “unusually high” number of robberies and break ins […]

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SILVER LAKE RECLAMATION, KATE MAGUIRE’s INVOLVEMENT WITH DPI GOOD NEWS FOR PITTSFIELD

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014) — The biggest good news story will be when the police watch TOM (The One Man). TOM’s the busy guy who, according to Mayor Dan Bianchi ostrich-like view, is responsible for all of the crime currently plaguing downtown Pittsfield. While […]

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THE EMPTY SUIT: CLUELESS AS USUAL, THIS TIME ON CRIME … MAYOR REFUSES TO ADMIT, LET ALONE ADDRESS, CITY’s OUT-OF-HAND LAWLESSNESS

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary EPISODE 6 of Planet Valenti Television was our most ambitious yet. It is available on the PCTV website and will be up on YouTube sometime soon. The YouTube link for all out shows is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjP38gC2WQcYx71Cz0tjwoQ/feed ——– 000 ——– (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEEKEND EDITION, JUNE 13-15, 2014) — Let’s see: […]

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‘WE THE PEOPLE’ FACE CRUCIAL VOTE: SHOULD IT BE ‘NICK GOLF GAME’ or ‘NICK MULLIGAN’ … CACCAMO’S ELITIST ‘GOLF’ QUIP ANGERS THE POOR AND THE POORER IN PITTSFIELD

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary TUNE IN TONIGHT for Episode 6 of Planet Valenti Television. Tonight, The Generalissimo makes another appearance, by overwhelming popular demand. Also thrill to The Empty Suit, more letters, and other fun surprises. Live, beginning at 7 p.m., that’s PV-TV on Access Pittsfield, Time Warner, channel 16. To […]

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NICK ‘GOLF GAME’ CACCAMO RESIGNATION DOESN’T WASH WITH THE MASSES … UNBELIEVABLY, FIX APPEARS TO BE IN — AGAIN! — AT BERKSHIRE WORKS

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014) — THE PLANET has written many a “Fix Is In” columns, with the hard evidence to support it. For example, did we not predict, before anyone knew who she was, that Julia “No Relation to David” Berkowitz Sabourin would become […]

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THE GENERALISSIMO SHALL RETURN TO PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION … MAYOR LAYS A BIG ONE AT THS GRADUATION … LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (CACCAMO RESIGNATION, GLOCKNER APPOINTMENT)… plus … COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014) — PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION — PV-TVapologizes for the posting of Episode 5 on YouTube. Unlike the first four episodes, which were posted there in their entirety, the final 14-15 minutes of Episode 5 didn’t make the transferal. THE PLANET and […]

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EXCLUSIVE! PLANET EXPOSES FY15 BUDGET … COUNCIL WADES THROUGH ‘SWAMP BIANCHI,’ BUT ‘THE EMPTY SUIT’S’ BUDGET STILL DEFIES SENSE, LOGIC, or ‘RESPONSIBILITY’

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2014) — On Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, our Right Honorable Good Friends on the Pittsfield City Council put on their muck boots and waded through Swamp Bianchi, otherwise known as the FY15 budget. Forget about “The Rest of the River.” […]

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MAYOR, SUPERINTENDENT, SCHOOL COMMITTEE HAVE GIVEN UP ON THE CITY … THE HOT QUESTION: WILL THE CITY COUNCIL FOLLOW SUIT OR WILL IT DO THE RIGHT THING AND THROW THE LARDED BUDGET BACK AT THE EMPTY SUIT? BUDGET AIRING SATURDAY

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Here is the hot link for getting Planet Valenti Television — PV-TV. Episode #5 went well last night, and it shall be available at this link, we trust, in a day or two. Meanwhile, Episodes 1-4 are there for the viewing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjP38gC2WQcYx71Cz0tjwoQ/feed Oh yeah, and Happy 70th Anniversary […]

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COUNCILORS WEIGH IN WITH PRE-BUDGET REVIEW COMMENTS … ONLY LOTHROP AND COTTON FAIL TO RESPOND

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014) — When the question of the school bus fleet came up, We The People were strongly against. Being used to tightening the belt and getting the extra year out of the clunker, most citizens wanted to see the current fleet […]

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“THE GENERALISSIMO” INVADES, TAKES OVER CITY IN BLOODLESS (AND FUNNY) COUP. FILM TOMORROW AT 7 p.m. ON ‘PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION’

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014) — After the massive thunderclaps of last night, THE PLANET greeted this morning’s sun with joy and poetics. It would be a perfect day for morning filming in beautiful, downtown Pittsfield. With director Dave Bubriski manning the hand-held, Planet Valenti […]

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PITTSFIELD TAXPAYERS DO GET IT

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ASKED AND FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF ALL OTHERS: Here is a direct link to Planet Valenti Television — PV-TV. You will find all four episodes for viewing in their entirety. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjP38gC2WQcYx71Cz0tjwoQ/feed 00 ———————————————————- 00 (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014) — First, […]

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PLANET SAVES TAXPAYERS $9 MILLION … SCORES WIN OVER THE EMPTY SUIT ON BUDGET … PUBLIC’S HOSING BY MAYOR STILL BAD, THOUGH … WILL COUNCIL DO THE RIGHT THING?

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary PROGRAM NOTE: You can watch all four episodes of Planet Valenti Television — PV-TV now, on demand, at YouTube. Simply 1. go to YouTube. 2. In the search window, type “Planet Valenti.” 3. Enjoy. Our show is catching on, and we are having more fun with it […]

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TIME ONCE AGAIN TO ‘OUT’ SCHOOL BUDGET FAKERY

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Fourth in a Four-Part PLANET Exclusive Literary Autopsy on Pittsfield’s FY15 Municipal Budget (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEEKEND EDITION, MAY 30 to JUNE 1, 2014) — THE PLANET could spend from now till financial Doomsday (coming soon to Pittsfield) writing prose poems about the vagaries of the FY15 […]

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