";s:4:"text";s:4748:"There were proposals for a bypass for a better regional transportation system, a downtown mall, children’s museum, and a ballpark stadium, among other ideas that were all shot down. For decades, Pittsfield politics, which is a one political (Democratic) party top down system of government, always said “no” to progress. Capeless & Caccaviello racketeering enterprise has made it to the federal level. You come in from Lenox only to be welcomed by a closed Porn Store, soon to become another Pot Shop. Robert’s net worth has been estimated at over $3 million as of June 2020. Didn’t matter that these braintrust types didn’t have a clue what they would do with the 20,000 square foot building. The interesting part was that it was paid for by Downtown Pittsfield, Inc (DPI), a municipally funded quasi-public agency, promoting the for-profit business enterprise owned by a city council person. Why would students want to listen to him? WHY? He is the most abject,obtrusive, obtuse man I’ve ever heard on the radio. Go back to the Hannity reruns and doze off.President Trump is not a miracle worker, but then neither are the Democrats. Transferring that logic to Beacon Hill State House politicians who voted to raise working class and business taxes tonight (Wednesday, March 4th, 2020; see the 3 news articles below), I believe the State Legislators who voted for all of these tax and fee hikes should lead from the front lines by donating all of their pay and benefits to the general fund to help pay for Massachusetts crumbling infrastructure. It’s worked well for Bernie. IF the parents had an advocate or a clue, the district would be sued by nowIf you know it for a fact, that there are 2 specific disability areas that are NOT being serviced why don’t you post what they are?My remarks would simply fall on deaf ears and you’d probably go blind from the bad grammar. Perhaps if the far left Democrats had spent less time worrying about climate change every waking minute they could have planned for a situation like we now have with the corona virus and offered some intelligent advice.Thank you Lenny! So,at some point Sanders will have to take the high road against for or aganst Obama somewhere, or he will most likely lose to him.Biden’s gaining big mo. With Bernie’s win in California, it comes down to those two: Syracuse Joe or Battling Bernie.The Democrats united around Joe with alacrity. Maybe understaffed and under serviced is a better description. The 9.7 comes from a 2014 grant made by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. The local politicians want us to believe that everything is vibrant so we need to close our eyes to the condition of the city and pretend that everything is just great.Hello Pat, I agree with you, but Trump’s tax cuts were written by Wall Street’s lobbyists. Yet there is only two plays scheduled this summer. Get us the election votes and in return get anything you want.Actually, technical law breaking is literally the definition of criminality.Well he must spend that latest state supplement. All is well. With this Administration, nothing would surprise me! How come theaters like MacHayden can perform 7 to 8 plays a season and their tickets are half the price of the Colonial. Are they doing it again? Bernie to the nut house. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” That is definitely threatening Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.We need to focus on the corruption in our local government. Sold for 6 million dollars – State gets the right to farm & tax …. He gets by in his hipster glasses and janitor keysSo Lovely Linda and her “butt kissing Council” is going to give away $150,000 to someone that has 1.7 million to invest in a brewery. Doesn’t matter if you were not viable financially prior, or your net worth was in the negative numbersSo true. Why did this new brewery place get this money? It’s Rico at governor faker levelHow much money did Lee Ma. There are no living wage jobs for the average worker in Pittsfield, which means that you are either poor or near-poor, or you are a high wage earner in Pittsfield.It is like a “Perfect Storm” where everything went wrong for Pittsfield! Haven’t heard one damn word from the health department. Fox and Sally Field and was about three pet dogs who have to survive in the streets of San Francisco.