Editorials

EDITORIAL – Marg Spina: always ready with a smile, always ready to help

December 18, 2017 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE WEEK short of a year ago, on Christmas eve, Kamloops City councilor Marg Spina broke the news on her Facebook page that [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The mine that divided a community is dead; let healing begin

December 14, 2017 // 10 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THURSDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT that the Ajax project is dead might be the best news for the Kamloops region since the coming [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Pedestrians, drivers, cyclists duke it out on the streets

December 14, 2017 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THIS IS FOR the guy who almost ran me over with his bicycle. I was standing at an intersection waiting for the crosswalk [Continue]

EDITORIAL – 11th-Hour Award goes to KCBIA for nick-of-time parking reprieve

December 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I WANT TO congratulate the Kamloops Central Business Improvement Association for discovering, four years after it was [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Horgan’s reluctant decision to approve Site C was the right call

December 12, 2017 // 5 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO, SITE C is a go. Which leaves about half the people in B.C. happy as clams, and the other half mad as hatters. The [Continue]

EDITORIAL – If Greyhound is so essential, maybe we’ll have to pay for it

December 11, 2017 // 2 Comments

An ArmchairMayorca. editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT’S THIS WORLD coming to? We’re losing our department stores, the post office is in trouble, newspapers are [Continue]