Retailers on Revere Street have suffered major losses in revenues as a result of the lengthy reconstruction of the Revere Street bridge. Retailers on the street to a person have all bemoaned their fate.

Said the owner of Fiore’s Market: “No one seems to care about us. My business has been hurt. The beach people have stopped coming during the week as often as they used to. Now we’re being told the bridge won’t done until Christmas.”

It is certain that when present city council president John Powers comes to the end of his term, either city councillor at large Dan Rizzo or George Colella will be the next council president.

Colella hasn’t been lobbying his colleagues for votes, and it was expected that Rizzo would be next. In a recent meeting between the two, Rizzo said he was hoping to receive Colella’s vote but would step aside if Colella made his intentions known.

It is doubtful Colella will be actively running for the council presidency.

Rumors from a variety of sources persist about Mayor Ambrosino readying himself for a new position. No one can say with any certainty what that position might be, except to say, it will cause him to ultimately give up his mayor’s seat here - leaving Revere with a temporary mayor and a special election at some point.

Persistent talk among most of the city’s political power brokers centers around the ambitions of Mayor Thomas Ambrosino. The mayor does not have a candidate to challenge him for re-election. He is home free for another term. However there is the belief that he is leaving for another position, and soon.

The mayor will say nothing about his plans. He tends to hold everything close to his vest. Not even his closest friends and advisors have any idea what he is planning, except to say they know the mayor is planning his next move. Some say he is being considered to permanently head the Mass Turnpike Authority. Others insist he is to be given the eladership role in a non-existent gambling authority position.

The only certainty is that the mayor is leaving. The big questions are these: where is he going and when?

This city’s effort to keep people out by telling potential developers that we can’t accept new housing because the people moving into the city might have children who will need to go the public schools is all wet.

This city cannot survive without growth. On the other hand, the $65 million BJ’s development proposal could stand on its own, without the apartment housing. However the developer wants the right to build housing here.

What are we to do, build a new cemetery where the apartment housing would go. Turn the land into a private storage facility - would that be better? How about making it a parking lot or just keeping it a useless, ugly junk yard. Would that eb better than a $65 million development.

Governor Deval Patrick came to Revere Beach yesterday where he made a policy statement about the state’s future management of the beaches under the control of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

We trust and we hope the governor was serious, and that his visit here wasn’t yet another photo-op with the governor spouting nice phrases that we all want to believe.