BY DAN VALENTI This Week in Jonathan Levine’s Pittsfield Gazette Check out Jonathan Levine’s Pittsfield Gazette this week for the best and most complete coverage on the marathon City Council meeting last night (Tuesday, May 10). At the meeting, Melissa Mazzeo done whipped the boys on the issue of “acting appointments.” Kevin Sherman got in […]
BY DAN VALENTI The Planet is NOT in the business of Kingmaking (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, May 10, 2011) — The e-mail came in late last night, thanking The Planet for our endorsement of Dave Roche and citing that as a strong “contributing factor” in his decisive win in the Lenox select board race. The Planet […]
BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, May 9, 2011) — Decision Day in Lenox today, as voters go to the polls. Incumbents Kim Flynn and John McNinch are facing challengers David Roche and Eric Vincelette for two seats on the select board. The Planet has endorsed Roche and Vincelette. We will point out that endorsements […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET ISSUES ENDORSEMENTS IN LENOX (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, May 7, 2011) — Thinking ahead to Monday’s town election in Lenox, The Planet issues our endorsements. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Two incumbents — Kim Flynn and John McNinch — are competing against two challengers — Eric Vincelette […]
BY DAN VALENTI ADD ONE, 5/6/11 TOXICOLOGY IN LENOXOLOGY; BOARD INCUMBENTS FLYNN, McNINCH SUPPORT COLOSSAL WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY The town of Lenox, in a 4-to-1 vote by the select board, approved the horrendous marketing slogan developed for the town at a reported cost of anywhere between $58,000 and $300,000 by a Big, Important, NYC […]
BY DAN VALENTI Campaign Capers (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MAY 4, 2011) — With each new year and each new campaign season, The Planet notes more urgency and edge. The electorate bears more anger. Candidates seems more pressed — for time, for money, for differentiation, for a lot of things. The zeitgeist, not to get all […]
BY DAN VALENTI Candidates Grilled, Well Done, Tonight at 7 (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MAY 3, 2011) — Come one, come all, to The Planet’s Amazing Beer Hall Chat, held in the guise of a debate, at 7 p.m. at the Lenox Public Library tonight. Produced and sponsored by the recently formed political action committee, Berkshire […]
BY DAN VALENTI Angelo Makes a Sale (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, May 2, 2011) — Hear ye, Hear ye, be advised, all present, that late last week, disgraced ex-CEO Angelo Stracuzzi sold his house on Stonehedge Road. His wife, Rosanne, is listed on the sale document as a co-seller or grantor. The purchasers are listed as […]
BY DAN VALENTI More Testimony from Three Cops, from the Inside The ugly head of SteroidsGate has broken the surface again in Pittsfield choppy law enforcement and public safety waters. And just when you thought it was safe again to wade in up to your navel. The Planet is just removed from our latest face-to-faces […]
BY DAN VALENTI ‘He Gone Find Ray Charles’ (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 29, 2011) — The great comic Flip Wilson used to have a routine about Christopher Columbus’ journey to America in 1492. As Flip relates it, Columbus got on that boat not in search of continents but in search of soul. As Flip put […]
BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 28, ADD 1) — Beware of folks who have no sense of humor, who constantly rail in anger, who sees darkness lurking in the words and actions of everyone that disagrees with them. They think they’re wearing hair shirts but to the rest of us they look like […]
BY DAN VALENTI Medium Rare Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done. Nonetheless, The Planet will sit under the McDonald French Fry studio lights of PCTV today and answer questions from, gasp, Republicans. Yes, the Berkshire County Republican Association will host The Planet for an hour’s grilling at the studios. […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
