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EDITORIAL – Quiet time at the super market just what the doctor ordered

July 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. EVER THINK SHOPPING is just too noisy? Are you getting tired of hearing those hits of the ‘60s over the loud speakers at your super [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Salmon airlift a justified response to Mother Nature

July 22, 2019 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I HAD A RIDE in a helicopter once, or maybe twice. A few thousand or million salmon will get the same opportunity now that officials have [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Imagine if a government told you exactly what it is spending

July 21, 2019 // 1 Comment

IMAGINE, IF JUST FOR A MOMENT, if just for a moment, an op/ed writer beginning a column with a headline that states, Local Politicians Get It Right. Impossible you would [Continue]

PETERS – Apollo astronauts embodied human instinct for exploration

July 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE APOLLO 11 mission that saw humans land on the moon for the first time, it is appropriate that we ask the question, what are we doing in space? [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – More on how we try, and mostly fail, to control panhandling

July 20, 2019 // 4 Comments

SUPPOSE YOU’RE AT THE BANK MACHINE and there’s a panhandler sitting or standing there and he asks you for some spare change. Would you feel comfortable sliding your bank [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Trump’s latest racist tweets are absurd, disgusting

July 18, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS Canada is better at than the U.S. Our air is cleaner, our money is prettier, our comedians are funnier, our health [Continue]