What does my crystal ball show for next year? Here are some educated guestimates…
(1) Mayor TJ Monroe will run for a second term in May, even at the advanced Biden-like age of 74. If she DOESN’T run, I think Kuehne has aspirations for that particular position. God help us.
(2) Finley will retire and Ryan Ward will take over. I’ve heard that Ward is a “nice guy”. Great. From what I’ve seen he’s not super bright and his ‘solution’ for every problem (both real and imagined) is to spend a ton of money. He has been here only a year and has already implemented several costly programs of questionable necessity.
Naturally, he’ll get ANOTHER raise when he is elevated to this position – despite ALREADY getting TWO raises in his first 9 months of employment here.
(3) Nobody will move into the Business Pork. Our $7.5 million plot of fire hydrants and a road will sit empty another year. Some new “economic director” will tell us they they get “tons of calls” every week from the governor’s office.
(4) S2M2 will fail to build the 22 houses they are supposed to have built by December of 2023. City council will do nothing, despite handing them $185,000 a couple years ago as part of an “agreement” to do so.
(5) The joke company known as “Eco-Strong” and run by con man Mike Cour will FINALLY and spectacularly go out of business. There is no market for $46,000 fences in the middle of a recession and 7% interest rates. The warehouse over there by Brown’s Feed will be abandoned by Cour and he will likely owe a lot of people money in his wake.
(6) Local socialist Clayton Tucker will turn 32 in February and will continue to live with his parents for the entire year. He will not get a job in 2023 and will continue to bitch about “fixing the grid” despite the fact it is the very same unreliable power sources he champions that cause all the problems.
(7) Bruce Haywood will stay fat, stupid and annoying all throughout 2023, assuming he doesn’t drop dead of morbid obesity or the vaccine.
(8) The Fed will pussy out and NOT raise rates any further at their February meeting. The top is in for fed funds, imho. Not financial advice.
(9) We will see a well-known business (or two) that have been in Lampasas for YEARS shut their doors due to the shitty Biden economy.
(10) There will be a huge uptick in commercial air accidents, crashes and deaths as the stupidity of DEI diversity hires and of force-vaxxing pilots begin to really be felt.
(11) Within 90 days of the skate park opening, there will be graffiti and vandalism galore. The bathroom there will be vandalized and/or damaged to the point it has to be closed.