Ask Mr. Bumble: the law really is an ass sometimes
There’s a passage in Charles’ Dickens’ Oliver Twist in which Mr. Bumble is accused of stealing some jewelry. Mr. Bumble, not a particularly sympathetic character, [Continue]
Politics
Such a deal for candidates — you scratch our back, we’ll put you on our website
Right about now, civic election candidates must feel like noodles at a spaghetti-pulling factory. Not only do they have to fill out media questionnaires and attend a packed [Continue]
Forum answers make one despair for future of Kamloops, but…
Some of the answers, or non-answers, provided by candidates at election forums make me squirm — they are so vacuous or based on not the slightest fundamental understanding [Continue]
Election signs that work, election signs that don’t
For those who haven’t seen them for themselves, here are some of the signs I wrote about a few days ago. The Messmer Mess, as you can see, takes some solid fundamentals [Continue]
Occupy Kamloops biffy issue nothing but a tempest in a pee pot
Being a member of City council is never easy, but it seldom gets dull. Today, at its weekly meeting, council will deal with a road closure, a liquor licence application, [Continue]
Farmers’ Market forum questions better than the answers
Saturday’s election forum at the Kamloops Farmers’ Market was more interesting for its questions than for the answers. Most but not all of the candidates in the [Continue]
