18.05.12
I f I was any manner of a prognosticator, I likely would be in a forward-looking business such as stock make available analysis or horse race handicapping. Instead, I have toiled in the fields of journalism for most of my moving spirit now, forever looking back at the rows I have plowed rather than looking ahead at untilled dirt.
Journalism, for better or worse, focuses on what has happened rather than what will or might come to be, so I longing for forgiveness if the following localized predictions for 2012 end up belonging in the corrections lacuna on page A2. (First, though, I will admit that I am being less than half serious, and that I was inspired by columnist Peter Funt, whose native predictions for 2012 are likely to run on Sunday.)
Politics: The supervisorial chute between Jane Parker and Byrl Smith will become so heated that fisticuffs will commence. No, not between the candidates themselves but between their backers.
Source: Monterey County Herald