Campaign notes: Menino gets big-paper endorsements

A rare two-fer: Both the Globe and the Herald endorse Menino - but caution him against fourth-term backsliding.

Kevin McCrea (you remember him - the motorcycle-ridin' at-large candidate who didn't make the September cut) predicts John Connolly will get onto the council, after seeing some dude in a Lexus pass him on the way to Weston with a "Connolly for Council" bumper sticker:

... I thought, this is why he is going to win. Because he has the money and contacts. Ed Flynn and Matt O'Malley and Felix Arroyo, etc. do not have people from Weston writing $500 checks to help the cause. ...

Kevin of the Herald is running a contest: If you successfully predict the winners in the at-large council race, you could win a Boston sports DVD.

Kathleen O'Toole says Boston doesn't have enough police officers. Bostonians are organizing Crime Watches again.