Planet Valenti

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, OCT. 4, 2011) — Hello. Thanks for checking in. Today, we present various and sundry items that have landed on THE PLANET.  DON’T YOU PAINT AFTER YOU PAVE? Residents of Williams Street have been scratching their heads trying to figure out the city’s […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary FIRST ADD, 10/3/11 SHERMAN RESPONDS, CALLS COMMENTS ‘A LIE OR FABRICATION’ THE PLANET has received a response to our posting about Kevin Sherman and the open meeting laws from my Right Honorable Good Friend Councilor Sherman. We post it the substance of the message as follows. “For […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 2011) — Welcome, my dear friends, to October, when men rake leaves and women are glad they do. Today, we have some quick observations to share, and then we turn the page over to our guest commentator, Francois Arneau. SHERMAN NEXT […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 30, 2011) — Where don’t know where, but the time sure is on a jet plane. We just welcomed summer, it seems, and here we are, doing the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene with September. it has been a good, often soggy, […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 29, 2011) — On Election Day, prelim division, THE PLANET can now reveal: We skipped town for some serious fun and R&R. We got back home late that evening to find an e-mail from our Right Honorable Good Friend, Mike Ward, the […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary A LANDSLIDE FOR APATHY The fact that under 25% of the electorate voted yesterday for the county seat’s most important municipal office illustrates the point THE PLANET has made in the past couple of days, both in writing and speaking: the democratic process is d-e-a-d in Pittsfield. […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, SEPT. 27, 2011) — Today being election day, and with 20 to 25% expected to overwhelm the polls, we might lament the state of our so-called democracy. Rather than do that, though, we light the candle for apathy and place it in the […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, SEPT. 26, 2011) — Second things first, and that’s tomorrow’s preliminary election, where the municipal fields get narrowed down to two candidates. THE PLANET will not and does not issue endorsements for prelims. Endorsements are of little use in any case, but especially […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 2011) — So much to get to and so little time. Ah, the Sophie Tucker lament. You remember Sophie Tucker? She was the Beatles’ favorite group. PLANET HAS THE STORY — We were in weeks ago wit hthe solid information that […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 2011) — Pride does not come before the fall, which we can attest to on this first day of the autumnal equinox. The earth has begun to tilt away from the sun in the Northern Hemisphere. Does that mean the lefty […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, SEPT. 22, 2011) — And so the cynical but successful electoral scam continues on track. The Larkin-to-Larded-to-Sandwich Lady has worked like a charm. The TFB end of Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance around-the-horn twin killing seems poised for victory Oct. 18, the date for the special election. […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 2011) — Odds and ends must be tied, and corsets of corruption loosened, which is one of the things this web site is all about. UP ON TRIPLE CREEK — It wouldn’t be Pittsfield, though we write this FAr from that […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary ADD 1 TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY, SEPT 20-21, 2011 REMAINS OF THREE WERE FOUND IN VACANT LOT IN BECKETT THE PLANET has just learned and it appears confirmed that the three bodies in Pittsfield’s notorious triple murders were dismembered and buried in an empty lot in Beckett. Sharp-eyed […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, SEPT. 19, 2011) — There are several new developments in Pittsfileld’s infamous triple murder case. Only THE PLANET has these exclusive developments, obtained from various sources connected with the investigation. This information was obtained off the record, and therefore cannot be considered  official. […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, 2011) — No one has been digging into the muddied situation surrounding the fate of the Pittsfield Colonials and professional baseball in Pittsfield the way THE PLANET has. And NO ONE has the story that we do. Finally, Some Answers: THE […]

By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 2011) — For the openers today, we start off with this comment from Ray Ovac, also known as BAT(erry) MAN. Ray gets to the essence of why the Boring Broadsheet is covering like a quivering child during a thunderstorm in light […]