Rothenburger

ROTHENBURGER – What’s so great about being third fastest growing city?

February 24, 2024 // 3 Comments

GROW, GROW, GROW. We can’t stop talking about it. Growth is good. Growth is God. We must go higher, wider, bigger. The growth bug hits Kamloops every once in a while, like [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Free speech versus protecting schools from protests

February 22, 2024 // 5 Comments

THRONE SPEECHES are typically vapid snoozers, and B.C.’s NDP government didn’t let us down this week. The Throne Speech is supposed to give us a general idea of what the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Council should have remembered Wealthy Barber’s advice

February 21, 2024 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FORMER CITY COUNCILLOR Arjun Singh must have been sitting on the edge of his seat Tuesday as the current council considered ways to reduce [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Learning to live without plastic straws and grocery bags

February 20, 2024 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S AMAZING how we’re able to adapt to changes we insisted we’d never be able to adapt to. It took a few decades but we’re weaning [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Who were the ‘divisive’ ones in TNRD rural tax clash?

February 17, 2024 // 2 Comments

THE WORDS ‘DIVISIVE’ and “irresponsible” were liberally tossed around as local-government reps met this week. There was emotion, talk of the need for “teamwork” [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Concerns about indigenous veto on Crown land need more dialogue

February 15, 2024 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LAND ACT CHANGES will either shut down B.C. business or are a natural evolution on the path toward reconciliation, depending which side of [Continue]