BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION MARCH 3-5, 2023) — This week, a PLANETEER suggested the implementation of a new award. THE PLANET took it up with our Board of Directors, and the proposal won unanimous approval. Unlike Our Right Honorable Good Friends on the city council, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 1, 2023) — It came in like Lippy the Lion and will go out like Hardy Har Har, thus THE PLANET speaketh of March. Now on to our Right Honorable Good Friends on the city council, now officially dubbed “the cast of […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, FEB. 27, 2023) — THE PLANET presents this guest column to shine indirect light on the current state of war across the globe, primarily the one raging between Russia and Ukraine but including countless forgotten, anonymous, or unknown battlegrounds such as Papua, Angola, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 24-6, 2023) — You recall earlier when THE PLANET took a month to research an ad vs. subscription model to provide funding to offset the costs of running this site. Unlike your officials, we sought your opinion, did our research, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY FEB. 22, 2023) — Seems that while THE PLANET and everyone else were all asleep Sunday-into-Monday, Syracuse Joe hopped a freight train and snuck over to Kiev, Ukraine, where he met with fellow comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “That’s two “z”s, as Buddy Sorrell used […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY FEB. 20, 2023) — THE PLANET was the first of anyone, anywhere to publicly call it, definitively, that is. Once again, when we print it, and “it” lies in the future, “it” usually occurs. ———- ooo ———- How lame can a lame duck […]
PLANET VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 17-9, 2023) — The reconstitution of a council meeting involves water and spoon — water because these meetings arrive freeze-dried and in need of stirring. This Tuesday, the council took up the usual mix of pabulum and steak. in the first […]
PLANET VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY FEB. 15, 2023) — This just in. The Pentagon has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time at 20,000 feet directly over city hall in Pittsfield. Defense Department sources, speaking off the record, tell THE PLANET that the object was “car-sized, vacuous, without […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY [ED. NOTE: Those who tied Tuesday morning until about 1 p.m. to access and post comments on THE PLANET could not do so because of a systemwide server problem. The IT guys corrected that. Access and commenting should now be good to go.] ———- ooo ———- (FORTRESS […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 10-2, 20230 — First things first, for all those who want to make some quick, easy money. Put all you have on the Eagles, straight up. Deys gun put the Hurts on the Chiefs. Final score Iggles 27, Thieves 20. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY FEB. 8, 2023) — Biden had a balloon. Pittsfield has a buffoon. Many, in fact. THE PLANET speaks of just one today, the meddling Nick Russo, who, after being used by the city as a poster child for those useless bike lanes, now […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY FEB. 6, 2023) — The United States would have us believe they shot down a Chinese high-altitude balloon because it was a spy satellite. China, irate, claimed the craft was a weather balloon. THE PLANET, in its never-ending quest for truth, justice, and […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 3-5, 2023) — Pittsfield’s sitting on a load of money taller than Hill 78, that Everest of Toxicity bequeathed by GE, with Pittsfield’s OK, directly next to a grammar school. THE PLANET refers to “free” cash. Of course, we know […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY FEB. 1, 2023) — February already! Where does the time go? In official Pittsfield, it goes into the clutches of the Cyclopian “visionaries” of local government who continue to run the city into the ground. Shows you what a lofty position Shire City […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JAN. 30, 2013) — Over the past two weeks, THE PLANET spent time with presumed mayoral candidates Peter Marchetti and John Krol. We met each over coffee, and each meeting went a couple hours. The specifics of the conversations — each of which […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANT VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JAN. 27-9, 2023) — “Do something, then see what happens.” It was one of Napoleon’s favorite sayings. Ward 2 councilor Charles Kronick might have used that with his now-(in)famous petition, #18 on this past Tuesday’s agenda, requesting that a sign be […]
