Anybody care to make any bold predictions for The Garden City for the coming year? Any municipal election upsets on the horizon? Or dark horse candidates surfacing to oppose Setti Warren for the city’s top seat?
I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb with any of these but I predict:
All three override questions will pass with a reasonable margin.
On the Board of Aldermen: Scott Lennon and Jay Ciccone will switch seats (Jay will run for the ward seat and Scott will run at-large). Neither will be opposed.
Ken Parker will try to make a political comeback on the School Committee and run for the seat currently held by Chair Claire Sokoloff.
Setti Warren will coast into his second term.
I’ve got more but I’ll give somebody else a chance.
MyBig predictiofor 2013 is….we’ll have two new Senators this year. What are the odds of that happening?
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1.] I predict the Newton School Committee will continue decades of uninterrupted failure toward reestablishing our school system’s long lost greatness. These folks can’t even manage to change the ridiculously early start times of our high schools, despite a majority of members voicing support for that change prior to their election. If the SC was in charge of the “fiscal cliff” we’d all be sitting in a burned out heap at the bottom of it… Likely because they shoved us over the edge.
2.] I predict Setti Warren will kiss Steve Grossman’s ass, while failing to challenge the Treasurer’s rule requiring separate overrides for each school project. [Oops, I meant to predict that for 2012]. I also predict at least one of the overrides fails.
3.] I predict Wegmans will be such an enormous success that most post-pubecent, pre-menopausal Newtonites will achieve spontaneous orgasm upon entering the store, and that a video-clip of this phenomenon will set a new record for hits on You Tube.
Scott Brown will not be a US Senator in 2013 (not counting, of course, today or tomorrow).
Ward 5 At Large will have one new alderman.
There will be four new school committee members elected in November.
Charlie Shapiro will run for something. Tom Sheff won’t.
Chloe Gotsis will be offered a new job.
There will be progress on Needham Street.
Bob Burke will finally take me up on my standing offer to become a Village 14 blogger.
Kim will not call anyone a clown during the 3rd week of July.
Village 14 will reach 10,000 comments by March 15 (we have 7,078 right now).
@Greg: Are you saying that Chloe Gotsis is running for U.S. Senate or Ward 5 alderman?
I believe the real estate market will be very strong. Prices should rise around 3% and hopefully many of the sellers who postponed listing their home will step forward and sell…at the right price! Inventory has never been lower in Newton, interest rates are at historic lows and should stay in the mid 3% range for the 1st quarter. Most importantly, banks are lending.
I predict Greg is already wrong with a minimum of one of his predictions.
@Charlie: So you’re NOT training for the marathon?
But, I predict Greg is right on one of his other predictions.
I will take Greg up on his offer. I just learned how to transport pictures to emails and blog postings. The only prediction I will make is that construction of the Upper Falls Greenway will be underway this year.