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Fearless 2015 Predictions

Here are my fearless predictions for the coming year. Remember the rules. These can be things that I don’t want to see happen and so I hope to put the whammy on them by predicting them. They can also be things that I do want to happen, so I predict them in order to help make them happen. Then, there are those predictions that I really do think will happen. I leave it to you, dear readers, to figure out which is which.

Hillary Clinton will announce that she is running for President. This time she’ll end up getting the nomination.

Hillary will call Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and beg him to be her running mate. He’ll reluctantly agree.

Elizabeth Warren will announce once and for all that she is not running and she won’t. She’ll say, “Hillary is our best chance for taking back the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives and I’m not going to screw that up.”

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will announce a run for the nation’s highest office. He’ll say again, “This is just to keep Hillary honest.”

The baby boom will continue at WAMC despite the huffing and puffing of some people who think that this is all about them.

Two new signal-expanding nodes will finally be put in western Massachusetts. Folks in the Amherst and Northhampton areas will jump for joy.

Several loyal and grateful WAMC listeners and members will leave substantial bequests to the station. One of them will never have made a previous contribution.

A WAMC front office and wonderful person will play the ukulele on our air and sock everyone with her prowess.

Two WAMC women will announce their engagements.

A top official in New York will try to do damage to the radio station. He’ll privately tell people that ever since the radio station put a new frequency up in his hometown, it has caused consternation in his family.

The next WAMC fund drive will be a record breaker. The pre-drive locked box will overtake the on-air portion of the fund drive.

One generous donor will call offering the largest challenge ever.

The ratings people will tell that more people are listening than ever before.

Ichiban will install a large painting of me. It will say, “The man who pays the mortgage.”

Alan and the new President of NPR will verbally duke it out.

WAMC will win several top awards in the broadcasting industry. Having already filled three walls, we’ll have to find another wall on which to hang them.

A former WAMC executive will make an unprecedented contribution to the radio station. He’ll say, “Just paying back for all the wonderful things the station has done for me.”

A foolish man will sue WAMC for towing his car out of the employees’ parking lot.

The time allotted for the panel discussion on The Roundtable will be slightly expanded.

Vice President Patrick Cooney will fire a major station contractor for lack of performance.

The best actress in the United States will sit for a WAMC conversation.

The company President will raise considerable ire when he flatly tells employees that they have to move away from the front door while smoking. He will get people really crazy when he says, “It is expressly forbidden to bring chocolate chip cookies into the building. They’re killing me,” he will moan.

WAMC will win an award for the best use of social media among public radio stations in the United States.

A regional newspaper will have its chief executive arrested for not paying into FICA funds.

News Director Ian Pickus will receive the highest award the horse racing industry can bestow. It will read, “He sure can pick them.”

The Linda, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, will be recognized by the Mayor of Albany as the place closest to the heart of the city. She’ll say, “Enough of this downtown stuff. This is where the action is.”

Things will go very, very badly in Sherwood Forest.

You, dear listeners will have a happy, healthy and productive New Year.

Dr. Alan Chartock is professor emeritus at the University at Albany. He hosts the weekly Capitol Connection series, heard on public radio stations around New York. The program, for almost 12 years, highlighted interviews with Governor Mario Cuomo and now continues with conversations with state political leaders. Dr. Chartock also appears each week on The Media Project and The Roundtable and offers commentary on Morning Edition, weekdays at 7:40 a.m.
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