] Mike, despite being contradicted by yesterday’s news, thinks Barbara Haller won’t run for re-election in 2011, but an anointed successor will take her place.

] Mike prediction: The City Hall skate rink won’t be operational.

] Mike prediction: Stone Soup will be rebuilt.

] Mike prediction: Worcester will get Google Fiber.

] Mike prediction: Marty Lamb will appear on 508.

] Brendan prediction: Not much will change.

] We revisit the 2009 predictions.

] Brendan won’t say if Mayor O’Brien will be re-elected.

] There’s a Youth Poetry Slam on Saturday, 4pm at Clark.

] There’s an Aldi being built.

] Brendan wonders why Worcester has so many more supermarkets these days.

] T&G: Police arrest 24 Assumption students at off-campus party:

] Some City Councilors want to increase property taxes on apartment buildings.

] Mike had a good time at “The Next Big Thing” at the Palladium. Brendan thinks “pay for play” events in Worcester have tended to be among the better ones.

] Bruce will be a Wise Man in the Christmas pageant at Pleasant Street Baptist Church, 5pm Sunday.

] Brendan explains the coming widespread vehicular surveillance of Worcester drivers.