shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com January 1 2019 • Page 9 The Press & Dakotan Staff Takes A Look At The Year Ahead 100 Predictions For 2019 1. The road construction at Sioux City will finally be completed. (Sorry, man. Just kidding.) 2. You will already start to develop frequent, throbbing headaches as you contemplate the 2020 presidential election. 3. Duke will take the NCAA Division I men’s basketball title in the Twin Cities. 4. Obamacare will survive. 5. The Boston Red Sox will repeat as baseball’s world champions. 6. The Yankton Bucks are going to have a fun winter of basketball — again. 7. All systems will be a go for Mount Marty College’s new fieldhouse. 8. The 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion is going to be so very bittersweet. 9. So, too, will be the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II. 10. Billie Sutton will be rumored for a Senate run against Mike Rounds. 11. The 50th anniversary of Woodstock will be celebrated with a rock festival that will include terrific senior citizen discounts at the gate. 12. Donald Trump will get another Supreme Court pick. 13. Puerto Rico will demand statehood. 14. Democrat Beto O’Rourke will announce he is running for president. 15. No wall. 16. The Rolling Stones are coming to Sioux Falls. 17. President Trump will finally, at long last, say something for which there isn’t an old tweet on his account that directly contradicts what he just said. 18. The economy will slow, with signs of recession starting to emerge at the end of the year. 19. Flooding will be an issue in 2019. 20. A trend toward smaller smartphones will start to emerge. 21. There’s postseason possibilities in store for the USD basketball teams. 22. The New Orleans Saints will beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. 23. Yankton County will get sued. 24. USD will produce a national champion in track. 25. The USD football program will be at a crossroads this fall. 26. The 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 is either going to be a sobering reflection on the passage of time, or just another day for a lot of younger people who have never known a time when man hadn’t landed on the moon. 27. On sort of a related note, you’ll really miss Walter Cronkite. 28. A “bathroom bill” will be introduced in Pierre. 29. California will be burning. Again. 30. Hillary Clinton will announce she won’t run for president in 2020, much to the relief of many people. 31. After the box office success of 2018’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the film about Freddie Mercury and Queen, can the long-awaited biopic on Bachman-Turner Overdrive be far behind? 32. Remember Michael Avenatti’s presidential ambitions? No one else will, either. 33. You still won’t completely understand cryptocurrency. 34. … or, for that matter, Brexit. 35. The fire danger in the Yankton area will be very high in the spring. 36. Yankton’s Matthew Mors will become the school’s all-time basketball scoring leader. 37. There won’t be a school board election in Yankton (again). 38. There will be a City Commission election, however. 39. Hallmark Channel Labor Day movies won’t be a thing. 40. America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia won’t change. Not. One. Drop. 41. Social media will lighten up, with interactions becoming more civil in tone and … oh, forget it. be wrong, and you will groan mightily about how the weather service still can’t get its forecasts right. 67. A weather forecast will be spot-on accurate, and you won’t think twice about it. to Yankton. 50. There won’t be any new chain stores coming to Yankton, at least in 2019. 51. Although their title grip is loosening, the Golden State Warriors will still find a way to repeat as NBA champions. 52. “Thoughts of a Dog” will become the most followed account on Twitter. 53. South Dakota lawmakers won’t go for Medicaid expansion, so a petition effort to take the matter to a public vote, similar to what happened in Nebraska in 2018, will begin. 54. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow will wear black during her show. 55. More South Dakota law enforcement officers will invoke Marsy’s Law due to actions in the line of duty. 56. As a standard part of your transaction, a clerk at a store will ask you for your phone number. You will struggle to remember it … 57. But you’ll clearly remember the lyrics to Tommy Tutone’s “867-5309 Jenny” … 58. With that, you’ll conclude the best way to remember your phone number is to set it to music. You’ll set it to Ariana Grande’s “Thank You, Next” but accidentally substitute your Social Security number for your phone number … 59. Long story short: You’re going to need some serious credit counseling … 60. And you’ll be sued by Ariana Grande. 61. Someone you know will be threatened with deportation. 62. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will merge, renaming themselves the Scouts of America. 63. The Scouts of America will file for Chapter 11. 64. More photos will be taken of Meridian Bridge than of Discovery Bridge. 65. With great power comes great satire: John Thune will be parodied on “Saturday Night Live.” 66. A weather forecast will 68. So, if Christian Bale (who will win the Oscar for Best Actor) plays Vice President Dick Cheney in the movie “Vice,” does that mean that Dick Cheney was Batman? This year may tell us … 69. There will be LOTS of rumors. 70. Amy Klobuchar will announce she will run for the Democratic nomination, and she may prove compelling enough that some people in this area will realize she’s actually a senator from Minnesota. 71. There will be a moment when you’ll discover that the world will finally make complete sense to you … but then you’ll wake up and won’t remember what it was. 72. As it turns out, there really isn’t a better way to make a living. 73. The situation at the southern border will get worse before it gets better. 74. With Yankton now committed to building an aquatic center, a monorail is probably off the table. 75. Laurel and Hardy will enjoy (posthumously, of course) a renaissance in popularity. 76. Hillary Clinton won’t visit Michael Flynn when he’s in jail. 77. It will suddenly occur to you that Elon Musk has way too much time on his hands. 78. During the next Holiday Festival of Lights, the traditional Christmas tree will be replaced with a large aluminum Festivus Pole, sponsored by Yankton Buzz. Yankton resi- 42. CNN and MSNBC will be overly critical of the Trump administration. 43. Fox News will be quite the opposite. 44. You will not have the occasion to utter the phrase, “Wow! That’s the coolest stapler ever!” 45. Marvel Comics will unveil a new “X-Men” character whose special power is extraordinarily good grammar skills. 46. More members of the Trump administration will be indicted. 47. 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Don’t expect the CAFO issue to go away. 80. Remember the “Kingdom of No?” Pepperidge Farm remembers. 81. Another college sports program will be found to be covering up some heinous crimes committed by their players — and get away scot free. 82. Press & Dakotan assistant Sports Editor Jeremy Hoeck will get around to making the music video he promised, like, five years ago. 83. Don’t expect the county roads issue to go away. 84. Some of the people who believe that electing somebody new to a public office magically makes things better are going to be awfully disappointed. 85. Finding no alternatives, the Oakland Raiders will play their 2019 season at the DakotaDome. 86. Stanford will win a national championship in some sport, which it has done in each of the last 42 years. (Seriously) 87. You’ll miss Stan Lee. 88. CNN will feature its “Breaking News” chyron at some point literally every single broadcast day during 2019. 89. As 2019 begins, it’s going to feel really weird not being at least a foot-and-a-half ahead of normal in terms of moisture to date. 90. Bon Homme County commissioners will start a GoFundMe account to help pay for legal fees for prisoners who are going to trial in the wake of a drug bust at Mike Durfee State Prison in 2018. 91. The NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning will bring the Stanley Cup home to Florida — where, in an alternate universe, some people think a hockey title belongs. 92. There’s a nagging feeling that, at some point during the year, it will need to be mentioned that being impeached is not the same as being convicted. 93. There will be lots of buzz around Yankton about Mount Marty basketball this winter. 94. NCAA Football: Roll Tide. 95. … and roll Bison. 96. It will be the 100th anniversary of the infamous “Black Sox” scandal. The Chicago White Sox will not be commemorating it. 97. 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