ROTHENBURGER – Pearls of wisdom about life and death in 2016
MOSTLY, 2016 sucked. The weather was awful, politics was a mess, and a lot of good people died. We all look at the past through our own filters. Here are some abbreviated [Continue]
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EDITORIAL – Cenotaph vandalism both reprehensible and misguided
THE GRAFFITI VANDALISM at the Kamloops cenotaph that occurred over the holiday season is disturbing on two fronts. First, the desecration of a revered community monument is [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Kamloops has a history of gutsy female City councillors
An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. OUR GOVERNMENTS have a shortage of representation from women — that’s nothing new. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Frootloops City council makes its Christmas wish list
IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE, and the Frootloops Council is holding its AGM in the former Kamloops Daily Snooze building — they have to use it for something, after all — to tidy [Continue]
EDITORIAL – B.C. Liberal government’s good-news machine finely tuned
(BC Govt photo) An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S NOT HARD to find fault with the BC Liberals on a lot of stuff but I think there’s one thing on [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Santa Claus and other fake news: how do we know what’s real?
THERE IS no Santa Claus. We know that statement is a bald-faced lie. It is fake news. Newspaper editor Francis Pharcellus Church of the New York Sun fact-checked it in 1897 [Continue]
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