Rothenburger

EDITORIAL – City manager deserves medal for debunking the 2% fallacy

December 16, 2016 // 2 Comments

SURELY, VERY FEW people feel as passionately about their community as Kelowna City manager Ron Mattiussi. As he defended his staff’s proposal for a tax increase of 4.4 per [Continue]

EDITORIAL – B.C.’s liquor law reforms just keep getting dumb and dumber

December 15, 2016 // 4 Comments

JUST GREAT. Now we can look forward to riding the hotel elevator with a drunk guy sucking back a gin and tonic. John Yap, the Parliamentary Secretary for Liquor Policy [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Shouldn’t our MLAs live in ridings they represent?

December 14, 2016 // 3 Comments

ALL THE CANDIDATES in the Kamloops-North Thompson riding so far have one thing in common — none of them lives there. Dan Hines, Peter Kerek, Peter Milobar and Barb Nederpel [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Finally, an enlightened strategy on drug over-dose deaths

December 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE LAST BARRIERS to drug harm-reduction sites are falling, thanks to a drug-overdose crisis and some enlightened action by [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Is it too much to ask for a single parking-payment system?

December 12, 2016 // 5 Comments

An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PARKING IN KAMLOOPS is a lot like that drawer full of tangled-up electronics wires we all fight with every time we want to [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The seasonal curse of sappy TV Christmas movies

December 11, 2016 // 6 Comments

ONE OF THE CURSES of this holiday season is the annual onslaught of what we, in our house, call “sappy Christmas movies.” You know the ones — made for TV, plot in which [Continue]