BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY NOV. 15, 2021) — Our recent two-part series drew lots of comment and opened a lot of eyes about the current state of the Pittsfield public schools. We received two letters not posted on THE PLANET but sent privately — freely, unsolicited, and […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OS SOLITUDE, VETERAN’S DAY WEEKEND EDITION, 2021) — THE PLANET is pleased to present this guest column by a former Pittsfield resident who now lives in France. If affords a look at a cemetery that honors the dead from World War I, located in Suresnes, France. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS ANS COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY NOV. 10, 2021) — THE PLANET has heard from exactly no members of the Pittsfield school administration, no members of the school committee, or no new members just elected following Part 1 of this series pulling back the curtain on what passes these […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY [ED. NOTE: THE PLANET encourages any and all members of the PSD administration, any and all members of the Pittsfield school committee, and and all public schools staff, any and all students, any and all parents plus — of course — any and all readers to comment. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION NOV. 5-7, 2021) — The Loon Left just sank the Biden agenda. America should be grateful. Voters just gave a body blow to the extremists on the left, who call themselves “progressive.” Our guess is that “liberal” just isn’t left enough […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY NOV. 3, 2021) — The big news from yesterday’s election came in Ward 2, where independent challenger Charles Kronick, championed by THE PLANET, shocked the Machine-backed candidate by 60-40, in short, a landslide. This results can be read as a mini-referendum on the […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY THE PLANET received this letter late, past “going to press.” Nonetheless, we want to share it with the citizenry in the hopes it will turn out more to the polls citywide but especially in Ward 2. FROM CHARLES IVAR KRONICK: My wife, Ann, wants me to post […]
PLANET VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION OCT. 29-31, 2021) — THE PLANET has heard from two formers mayors, reacting to our comments about the Tyer Administration’s reputed plans to use tens of millions in KOVID KASH (KK) to build a stand-alone “houseless” shelter. Bot expressed the wish that […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY First of Two Parts (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 27, 2021) — What council veep Peter White calls the “houseless” problem has come back to bite. As they say in Jamaica, “Him bite hard.” THE PLANET has learned the 40-bed homeless shelter, slated to open in April […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY OCT. 25, 2021) — Later this week, THE PLANET will share what we’ve learned about the developing situation with the “houseless” shelter at the First Methodist Church on Fenn Street and Renne Avenue in Pittsfield. Looks like we might have another case of […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION OCT. 22-4, 2021) — Do you recall how much Linda Tyer flogged “transparency” when she sashayed into the corner office? “I’m looking through you. Where did you go? / I thought I knew you. What did I know?” — The Beatles. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 20, 2021) — So much information. So many reports from THE PLANET‘s Z Agents in the Secret Squadron. Dealing with the next batch: !PLANET! Banned in Boston !EXCLUSIVE! Well-placed sources tell THE PLANET that the 40-bed “houseless” facility (nod to the council […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY OCT. 17, 2021) — Time to take a whack at the topical weeds that crop-up in the polymath’s garden. Cafe Memini THE PLANET recently had coffee on successive days on two well-known political figures. The politics discussed shall remain off the record, identities […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION OCT. 15-7, 2021) — In 1984, Orwell labelled it “Thought Crime.” Today, we call it Cancel Culture. Differences without distinctions except in degree. Nazi Germany provided impetus for Orwell’s novel. The hysteria over a football coach’s expression of thought fed the […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY OCT. 13, 2021) — Democrats looking to weasel around the national debt ceiling are trying to drum up support for the minting of platinum coins “worth” $1 trillion. You read that right. This isn’t a joke. THE PLANET wishes it was. The minting of […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY Part Two of Two (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, COLUMBUS DAYOCT. 11, 2021) — Today THE PLANET celebrates Columbus Day, not Indigestible People’s Day, an apt time to conclude our Fearless Election Roundup (FER). Our FER will never be politically correct, only correct politically. On the hot seat: city clerk […]
