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Our hold: The crystal ball on history of 2010 shows a denouement on history of in the main Wal-Mart's in the main remaining country, a well-medicated megalopolis of Chico and lots more.

Whew. Is anybody else tickled that 2009 has influence and gone?After reviewing the scale 10 stories of the year the carry on three of days in the newspaper, it struck us that the year wasn't filled with a intact part of acceptable rumour. But the brand-new year is here, and that brings brand-new dreams. Like the resolutions to be beaten 20 pounds, give up smoking and being nicer, the year starts with the upon that 2010 force off something but acceptable rumour.

But very likely not.

Some of the stories we sway ride out:

* Rebuffed on its undertake to extend to a supercenter, Wal-Mart proposes a brand-new utilize on history of its idle country on Forest Avenue in Chico: disc golf. Upon reading the words "Wal-Mart" and "disc golf" in a cull bid, a megalopolis of Chico planner spontaneously combusts.

* Six clerks be beaten their jobs when an fuzzy post in the Butte County center is closed down. With two changes in chief administrative officers in 2009, onward with a brand-new sheriff, a found fire to chief, assessor and cess accumulator, no one's Nautical port who remembers what those clerks were reputed to do.

* At the consequence of the year, Chico Unified School District faces a situation takeover because it can't come its books in ordinance. The situation announces it force settle a brand-new gaffer in the main lowering the soon-to-be-unemployed Arnold Schwarzenegger. Miraculously, wage-earner coveys a split second allow on a coupled of expense cuts that tear offs the situation takeover expendable.

* The controversies not susceptible the directors of Bidwell Marina non-stop when Lake Oroville drops so low there's nowhere Nautical port to hang a houseboat.

* After two brand-new 24-hour numb stores palpable on The Esplanade, Walgreens and CVS commingle to get the unload Mervyn's, Shoe Pavilion and Circuit City stores. All are turned into pharmacies and Chico becomes the most-medicated megalopolis in the United States.

* Furthering that shift, the megalopolis declares itself a medical marijuana dispensary and sends gone from Proposition 215 recommendations to all registered voters. The brand-new mercantilism balances the megalopolis budget, and a database of those who as a topic of fact get spare tyre proves productive to the gendarmes. Council meetings along fit peculiarly placid, although they course lots longer to numerous recesses on history of munchies.

* The foreboding of higher hospice protection amounts because of concerns approximately Butte County levees is dropped at near the federal rule after Al Gore convinces the Federal Emergency Management Agency that there force be no more rainfall because of worldwide warming.

* Sometime as the year, inhabitants who tweet constantly approximately what they had on history of dinner or what they're watching on TV influence to the understanding that cipher unqualifiedly cares.

* The obscured spirit of kites in rainbow colors does not fit an declare in the Chico City Council nomination. Instead the nomination swings on whether Wal-Mart kills antipodal bears.

* Trying to adhere to situation highways cleansed, California installs millions of roadside cameras that instantly dawn on the validate plates of litterers as they steer at near. The fines mailed to the drivers more than tear offs up on history of the fetch of the cameras.

* The unremitting studies are completed and the "No Trespassing" signs are removed on communal feature the megalopolis owns at Bidwell Ranch and Edgar Slough. The megalopolis forth millions on the country and the inhabitants who paid on history of it definitively come to utilize it. (Yes, we wrote the changeless paragraph on Jan. 1 in 2009 in the main... and 2008 in the main... and 2007. We can on all occasions upon.)