BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTR$ESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 21-3, 2025) — When Mayor Lumpy and city treasurer Kufflinks Kerwood soft-shoed their preliminary remarks on Bitchfield’s finances, they claimed that during the most recent five years, the city tax rate had DECREASED 6.8%. The hilarious part of the joke […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 14-6, 2025) — Hang on to your wallets. Both hands. The wannabes running the city have begun noodling on the budget, which has ballooned to $215 million and counting. You would probably join the Kapanskis and THE PLANET in thinking […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 14-6, 2025) —THE PLANET welcomes you to the weekend by wishing you a Happy Valentine’s Day. Remember, you can’t spell “Valentine” without “Valenti.” The happy news: Jumpin’ Joe Curtis has announced his resignation. Talk about rats leaving the sinking ship! […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY FEB. 11, 2025) — THE PLANET commends the office of Berkshire County District Attorney Tim Shagrue for its leading role in bringing down what was a major drug operation. Sources tell THE PLANET that the bad actors were planning even bigger infiltration of […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY FEB. 10, 2025) — Only in Bitchfield. How many times have you said or thought that as the city makes another bonehead decision? Truly, what else can Mary Jane and Joe Kapanski expect from the substandard quality of “leadership” they have in so […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY FEB. 3, 2025) — THE PLANET will be carrying out routine platform and security updates this weekend, something our tech guys so pleasantly reminded us about and that we so Fred McMurray-like forgot. Seems we need a little Flubber in our dashboards, a […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JAN. 31-February. 2, 2025) — On the subject of debt, the city of Bitchfield is an expert. THE PLANET has the figures to prove it. Mayor Lumpy and the Profiles in Courage on the city council have quite a pickle on […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY JAN. 29, 2025) — Eight minutes. 480 seconds. That’s all it took for the Gutless Wonders on the city council to meet and adjourn. President Peter White, aka Voltron the Porkchop, got the meeting off to a flying start when he brought the […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JAN. 27, 2025) — THE PLANET extends congratulations to Emily Escalon-Brizuela from Reid Middle School for winning this year’s Jonathan Levine Middle School Spelling Bee. Same to second-placed Averi Olds from Herberg and all the young scholars who competed. Spelling bees were standard […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY JAN. 22, 2025) — The recent news that former Berkshire Bank CEO Mike Daly came out of retirement to head Pittsfield Cooperative Bank is good news for the local institution. It’s a move THE PLANET applauds. Daly is a proven entity, taking Berkshire […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, TRUMP INAUGURATION DAY, 2025) — For those who may not have attended mayor Peter Marchetti’s state-of-the-city speech, THE PLANET presents this copy. It has been notarized as “true to form” by the accounting firm that annually examines the city’s books, so you know […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY ADD 1 JAN 17 p.m. — THE PLANET received this from the office of D.A. Tim Shugrue. It illustrates the state of the state in Pittsfield. The action took place on King Street, behind Robbins and Dewey avenues, and John Street. Password is: Laquan. Good work by […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JAN. 13, 2025) — The funniest part of the Pedofield School Committee’s meeting last week had to be when His Rotundness, mayor Peter Marchetti, blew kisses to the students who spoke. That the kids were “coaxed” (not “bribed,” mind you) to do this THE […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JAN. 10-2, 2025) — Once again, THE PLANET called it, and we have the witnesses to prove it in any kangaroo court. Prior to Wednesday’s Pittsfield School Committee meeting, we predicted that supt. Jumpin’ Joe Curtis, with his bag lady PHS […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY ADD 1 WEDNESDAY JAN 8 — THE PLANET has received this from the office of Tim Shugrue, Berkshire County District Attorney: On Tuesday, January 7th, Alex Kemp (19 years old: New Jersey) was pronounced deceased at Baystate Medical Center following a ski accident. The incident occurred on […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JAN. 3-5, 2025) — On Dec. 27, 2024, THE PLANET contacted Bill Cameron, chairman of the Pittsfield School Committee with questions pertaining to the hiring of the Springfield law firm of Bulkley Richardson Gelinas to conduct an “independent investigation” into the […]
