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IN THE LEDGE – Where’s the money for government’s housing promises?

October 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

An exchange in the B.C. Legislature on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 between interim Leader of the Opposition Rich Coleman and Municipal Affairs Minister Selina Robinson on housing. [Continue]

GINTA – Kamloops is still a good place to be

October 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

THERE’S THIS curious phenomenon that happens to many of our family’s out-of-town guests when they come for a visit: they fall in love with Kamloops. Sure, for most of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Terrorism is getting closer and closer to home

October 3, 2017 // 8 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WITH EVERY passing day, terrorism and mass killings seem to be getting closer to home. The horrible mass shooting in Las [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Things we learned from the Kamloops by-election

October 2, 2017 // 2 Comments

An AmrchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO, WHAT did we learn from the by-election? Well, for one thing, even though the turnout was diaphanously better than most [Continue]

BEING MAYOR – Life at City Hall, Chapter 9: Reality Check

October 2, 2017 // 3 Comments

This is the ninth in a series of articles about my years as the mayor of Kamloops between 1999 and 2005. By MEL ROTHENBURGER ‘You are not in charge around here; we are.” [Continue]

COLLINS – Voter turnout in civic by-election was less than hoped for

October 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

HOPE SPRINGS eternal- except in elections. In the advance voting leading up to Saturday’s byelection, there were hopes that the turnout would be reasonably good, even [Continue]