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‘THE GRANGER MEMO, PART 3’, plus ODDS AND ITEMS: THE PLANET DOES VOX, NPR’s COMMERCIAL RACKET, ‘The BERRY CHRONICLES II,’ & $5-A-GALLON GAS COMING? WHAT DO YOU SAY?

BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 26, 2011, FIRST ADD) — No, SteroidsGate has not gone away. Stories like that don’t take time off, although journalists do. SteroidsGate and The Granger Memo The Planet now presents for the first time at this website (published first by The Pittsfield Gazette in Dan Valenti’s opinion column) […]

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‘THE CONOR BERRY CHRONICLES’: PROOF THAT ANDY MICK SPIKED THE STRACUZZI STORY, THE FIRST OF MANY SUCH ‘INTRUSIONS’

BY DAN VALENTI How the ‘Newspaper’ is Run … into the Ground For months, we have offered evidences and assertions supporting our argument that the Newspaper Formerly Known as The Berkshire Eagle no longer exists. In its place is a fraud and fake called The Boring Broadsheet. The BB began operation in 1995, replacing the […]

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HAPPY EASTER! PLUS: TUNE IN TOMORROW FOR THE DEVASTATING EXPOSE THAT PROVES THE BORING BROADSHEET IS A FRAUD (NAMES WILL BE NAMED), and TUESDAY, Pt. 3, ‘The Granger Memo’

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL! Tomorrow, The Planet returns with the most devastating expose to date on how the Boring Broadsheet really operates. We shall prove the “newspaper” (for it isn’t, except that it is physically printed on paper) is a fraud, and we name names, along with the liberated Conor Berry. On Tuesday, The Planet […]

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PLANET TAKES OFF FOR THE HOLY DAYS; NEXT POST ON MONDAY

ANNOUNCEMENT (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 22, 2011) — IN HONOR AND OBSERVANCE OF GOOD FRIDAY, HOLY SATURDAY, and EASTER SUNDAY, THE PLANET WILL POSE NO STORY ON THOSE HOLY DAYS . OUR NEXT MISSIVE WILL BE UP ON MONDAY. LOTS GOING ON. GOD BLESS ALL AND LOVE TO ALL. — THE PLANET

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‘FIRE IN THE SHIRE’: PLANET VS. TFAR BOX IT UP, and COLONIALS’ JAMIE KEEFE WILL MAKE THE YEAR’S BIGGEST SPEECH. HOW BIG? THE FUTURE RIDES ON IT… plus POETRY FILLS THE HOUSE DOWNTOWN as THE PLANET WORKS ITS MAGIC, MARCHETTI MAYORAL CALIBER, & WRITERS SHINE

BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 21, 2011) — 2nd Add — The Planet has yet to hear from Boring Broadsheet executive editor Tim Farkas on our challenge to three rounds of boxing at Beloved Wahconah Park at a time and date to be specified. A few months ago, you may recall The Planet […]

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A WORD ON ‘THE PUBLIC GOOD,’ CHIEF WYNN RESPONDS, MORE QUESTIONS on STEROIDsGATE, and THE PLANET CHALLENGES TIM FARKAS TO A BOXING MATCH

BY DAN VALENTI ‘Phony Bastard’ Apparel, Items: A Sensation Waiting to be Born (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 20, 2001) — SECOND ADD — We have slapped a copyright (C) on “Phony Bastard,” and have our second fortune lined up with PB T-Shirts, Mugs, Keychains, and the like. There will be a Phony Bastard float in […]

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BASEBALL, GOD, & OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, plus, BUSSING, A FORTUNE IN T-SHIRTS, AND STEROIDsGATE ‘THE GRANGER MEMO,’ PT 2

BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 19, 2011) — Four things out of the gate. Baseball, God, and Other Non-Sequiturs (1) Tomorrow night, The Planet hosts and produces “Baseball, God, and Other Non-Sequiturs,” a celebration of these two metaphysical topics as part of the city of Pittsfield’s observance of National Poetry Month. City cultural […]

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The SEARCH for TRUTH, THE GRANGER MEMO, plus, TOUCHDOWN, PPD OFFICER SOURCE, SCORES FOR WE THE PEOPLE in STEROIDsGATE

BY DAN VALENTI ADD 2, April 18, 2011: A call is placed. (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE) — We can share this brief update. The Planet called Chief Wynn this afternoon. His secretary did not pick up nor did the chief, so the call kicked into voice mail. I left the message that if Chief Michael Wynn […]

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BUS BROUHAHA: SCHOOL DEPARTMENT DOUBLE CROSSES TAXPAYERS ON FLEET REPLACEMENT, AND LOTHROP, THE SWINE, CARRIES THE POISONED WATER

BY DAN VALENTI First Add, April 16 into 17th, 2011 Briving a Dus, and Other Kramden-isms (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, April 16, 2011) — Busses, busses, who’s got the busses? And who’s going to pay for them. The bus story below is EXACTLY the kind of nonsense that must stop in the city of Pittsfield. The […]

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PARONTO, PRONTO, for COLONIALS; MAYOR GERRY LEE: WILL IT HAPPEN IN JULY? and, YES, YOU GUESSED IT, STEROIDsGATE. MORE ON THE MEMO

BY DAN VALENTI Where Have We Been? Busy, That’s Where It has been a bee-busy morning and afternoon on The Planet, replete with laughs, love, and lucidity. The laughs came in part to several “rumors” that hit us about our lack of a post this morning by noon. Rumor 1: The Planet pulled the plug […]

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A GOOD MORNING ON “GOOD MORNING PITTSFIELD,” STANLEY KUBRICK, AND THE STORY THAT KEEPS GIVING: STEROIDsGATE, THE MEMO

BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, April 14, 2011) — As we always do when we appear on “Good Morning, Pittsfield,” The Planet enjoyed our repartee with host John Krol in the first half. In the second half,we experienced pure fun talking about Stanley Kubrick with Jack Rubin of the new Berkshire Film Club. Certs […]

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The RIGGED FLAG ‘COMPETITION’ PRODUCES A ‘WINNER’; ONLY THE PLANET HAS THE TRUTH, plus The “PHONY BASTARDS” FIRESTORM: MUCH HEAT, MUCH SUPPORT, & a WARD BOND

BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD, APRIL 13, 2011 Flagging Down the Truth (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 13, 2011) — On March 25, The Planet posted the exclusive expose on cheating in the City Flag Competition. Today, The Boring Broadsheet wrote the scintillating (NOT!) of the winner. Here’s what we wrote, as a refresher. No one […]

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!! ADD 1: EVIDENCE OF AN OT SCAM IN PPD? !! LATEST IN STEROIDsGATE: KIRCHNER CASES DROPPED, TAXPAYERS OUT A SMALL FORTUNE, PLUS, HISTORY KEEPS REPEATING ITSELF IN PITTSFIELD, UNFORTUNATELY, and CITY COUNCIL MATTERS (WE THINK)

BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD, April 12, 2011 The Planet has what we judge to be good, reliable information from  informants within the Pittsfield Police Department. We are trying to vet as best we can prior to presenting this material, but the information does raise a number of interesting and plausible questions. A few days […]

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FIRST ADD IS IN, WITH A QUESTION … & YES-NO-YES-NO: Why the CITY OF PITTSFIELD IS KEEPING BUSINESS AWAY, plus, PART 2 of “STEROID USE AND ABUSE BY POLICE OFFICERS,” as our CONTINUING COVERAGE of STEROIDsGATE ADVANCES

BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD, APRIL 11, LATER THAN EXPECTED A Quick Question for Our Readers The Planet has been experimenting with a “1-Star,” or our Early Edition, posted for the next day the night before. Is that something you want to see? We think (though not entirely decided) that we can accommodate such a […]

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$1 BUYS a $17.5 MILLION PROPERTY: ONLY IN PITTSFIELD, plus, MORE ON STEROIDsGATE: ARTICLE REVEALS SHOCKING TRUTH OF STEROIDS USE BY COPS; THERE’s GOLD IN THEN THAR SQUAD CARS, PLUS, WE THE PEOPLE DEMAND: RANDOM DRUG TESTING NOW!

BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD, 4/9/11, 3:44 p.m. (Ted Williams’ lifetime batting average) (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 9) — Do you remember Patrick Sheehan, the mysterious owner of the building on outer East Street that the city wanted to purchase for a DPW garage? He of the seemingly countless LLCs and corporations? Uncovered by sleuths […]

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SOME NOT-SO-RANDOM THOUGHTS ON A FRIDAY MORNING & AFTERNOON. YES, STEROIDsGATE IS MENTIONED, and SO is SOMETHING SHOCKING ABOUT MOSQUITOGATE. LEARN THE DEEP, DARK SECRETS OF A PROGRAM THAT COST THE CITY SIX FIGURES, ALL OF IT WASTE

BY DAN VALENTI The Planet, in the middle of an extremely busy and productive morning picking hundreds off the money tree, offers a few quick though not-so-random thoughts on matters that have come out way in the past 24 hours: — SURE TO HAPPEN: Before he leaves office in early January, 2012, assuming the world […]

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