Rothenburger

EDITORIAL – Bring the public back into City council’s Code of Conduct process

January 29, 2024 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A WHOLE LOT of investigating has been going on in City Hall, resulting from City council’s code of conduct regulations. The City says [Continue]

EDITORIAL – After parties agree on cellphones, maybe Yellowhead is next

January 29, 2024 // 1 Comment

BEING A MEMBER of the Opposition must be frustrating these days. Just when you come up with a good idea, the NDP government takes it from you. There was, for example, BC [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Saying farewell to John DeCicco, the Barber of Main Street

January 27, 2024 // 2 Comments

THE BARBER OF MAIN STREET, John DeCicco, died this week. He was a friend of mine. Besides cutting hair, John was a former City councillor. I knew him for some 30 years, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Performing arts centre must include adequate parking nearby

January 25, 2024 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE DOWNTOWN PARKING PROBLEM won’t go away just because we want it to. The official line from City Hall a few years ago was that more [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Decision on Emergencies Act doesn’t validate ‘Freedom Convoy’

January 24, 2024 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. QUITE THE BOMBSHELL yesterday with a Federal Court ruling that the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act against the so-called [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Mourning the loss of the city’s daily newspaper 10 years ago

January 23, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TEN YEARS AGO, in January 2014, Kamloops lost its daily newspaper. I don’t think the city has fully recovered. The Kamloops Daily News [Continue]