EDITORIAL – Dress-code controversy a pain in the gluteal fold
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I LEARNED something new this past week. You and I have a gluteal fold. Two, actually. As best I can tell — and I’ve [Continue]
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EDITORIAL – Mayoral by-election looks like a zero-sum game so far
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHEN VOTERS elect a mayor, how much of what he or she says can they expect to come about? How valid, in other words, are [Continue]
BEING MAYOR – Life at City Hall, Chapter 5
By MEL ROTHENBURGER This is the fifth in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005. I offer it for the interest of anyone who cares about civic [Continue]
TRUMP TWEETS OF THE WEEK – ‘Sometimes you need protest to heal’
Heading back to Washington after working hard and watching some of the worst and most dishonest Fake News reporting I have ever seen! — Donald J. Trump [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Media have lost all objectivity in reporting on Trump
ALMOST EVERYTHING Donald Trump says and does is so utterly loathsome to me that I fear I’ve lost all sense of objectivity about the man. And that is clearly what has [Continue]
EDITORIAL – City Hall is mad as hell
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AN EXCITING THING happened in Kamloops City council chambers yesterday. After years of being oh-so-properly-neutral on [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Kudos to NDP for putting an end to the grizzly bear trophy hunt
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TERMINATING the grizzly bear trophy hunt, as announced Monday by Forests Minister Doug Donaldson, is worthy of a round of [Continue]
BEING MAYOR – Life At City Hall, Chapter 4
This is the fourth in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005. I offer it for the interest of anyone who cares about civic politics and their [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Getting more comfortable with death
DEATH HAS been much on my mind this week. Not just the fact that it’s the end of life, but what it’s really all about. You’d think we’d be more at ease with something [Continue]
EDITORIAL: Has anybody been listening to us on Ajax?
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE’S ENOUGH in the joint federal-provincial report on Ajax to make you wonder whether anybody in senior [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Political arithmetic of pipeline, dam and Ajax is worrisome
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IS ANYONE ELSE feeling a little nervous about a possible unfortunate connection between the Trans Mountain pipeline, Site C [Continue]
EDITORIAL – How much booze should the designated driver consume?
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE CONCERNS by restaurateurs over a federal proposal to lower the blood-alcohol limit for impaired drivers from .08 to .05 [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Where, oh where, is that one good man or woman to lead city?
There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Does wildfire volunteer effort need to get a second wind?
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. YOU COULD call it volunteer fatigue, or maybe volunteer dropout. After a few weeks of high-energy response to the wildfire [Continue]
