Columns

Armchair Mayor column published in The Daily News, Saturday, Nov. 15.   If you haven’t made up your mind who to vote for, you’d better think fast. Today is election day. [Continue]

Published in The Daily News, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 The idea of creating a ward system for Kamloops elections has been broached during this campaign, and I’m hear to [Continue]

Column published in The Kamloops Daily News, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008 I have high hopes for Cathy McLeod. I say that as a constituent, and as a newspaper editor, and I mean it [Continue]

From a column published in the Kamloops Daily News on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 What a shame that both our local elections will be decided in Ottawa. It may seem absurd to say [Continue]

Armchair Mayor column, The Kamloops Daily News, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008 Have you ever said something so totally stupid you’d like to crawl under a rock for 100 years until [Continue]

Armchair Mayor column published in the Saturday, Sept. 27 edition of The Kamloops Daily News   As pleased as I am that tolls are off the Coquihalla, I can’t help but shake [Continue]

For publication in the Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008 edition of The Daily News. Ideas are good, especially when it comes to candidates for political office. They tell us something [Continue]

For publication in The Daily News on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 I worry about our downtown. I walk it every day, for one reason or another. The other day, as I crossed Fourth [Continue]

For publication in The Kamloops Daily News, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008 Peter Milobar awoke in a cold sweat, muttering, “No, no, let me out, let out!” Mrs. Milobar shook him [Continue]

Armchair Mayor column for publication in The Kamloops Daily News, Saturday, Aug. 23 When Betty Hinton’s first election flyer arrived in my mailbox a couple of weeks ago, I [Continue]

Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008 The buzz this week has been all about the city’s newest hotel. Not a Hilton, not a Ramada, but a Sandman. A Sandman? You mean like those [Continue]