City Hall

Surely to God this city is not so bereft of leadership that it cannot generate a single candidate beyond the mayoral incumbent for the upcoming civic election. The highest [Continue]

Brian Cassell’s job is to chase trouble. Sometimes trouble turns around and bites him. Cassell, a City of Kamloops bylaws supervisor, has a way of making news. There was, [Continue]

In the midst of dreary debate about permissive tax exemptions and traffic bylaws and open-pit mines, it’s good to know our civic lawmakers are able to cut through to the [Continue]

I haven’t talked to anyone who wasn’t surprised at Denis Walsh’s decision not to run for another term. In hindsight, maybe the signs were there. When I [Continue]

By MEL ROTHENBURGER/ The Armchair Mayor And so, a new season begins. Yes, the unofficial end of summer is succeeded by the unofficial start to the civic election campaign. [Continue]

By MEL ROTHENBURGER/ The Armchair Mayor “You got me into this,” Henry Pejril joked at a Western Canada Summer Games do this week. Pejril, who’s president of the Games, [Continue]

City council members got an email the other day, one I doubt they were smiling about as they read it. The source was Chris Ortner, president of the Kamloops Voters Society. [Continue]

Will Denis Walsh, arguably the most popular politician in Kamloops at the moment, run for mayor in November? No, he won’t. There are two reasons for that, says Walsh. The [Continue]

City Hall has a problem. Its name is the Kamloops Voters Society. What began as a coffee klatch has emerged into a community force that has already set the agenda for this [Continue]

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS — LIFE AT CITY HALL   Chapter 9 — Reality Check   This is the ninth in a series of articles written for this blog about my years as the mayor of [Continue]

Mayor Peter Milobar cheesed me off when he held his first economic task force meeting in secret. He cheesed me off even more when he held the City council strategic planning [Continue]

  This is the eighth in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005. I offer it for the interest of anyone who cares about civic politics and our [Continue]

This is the seventh in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005. I offer it for the interest of anyone who cares about civic politics and our [Continue]

  This is the sixth in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005. I offer it for the interest of anyone who cares about civic politics and our [Continue]