Rothenburger

EDITORIAL – Fast-food workers need our understanding during COVID

May 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS are tough places to work these days. One would think we’d have worked out our angst over mask wearing by now. Yet incidents of confrontation occur [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A few yoga classes won’t ‘commercialize’ Riverside Park

May 8, 2021 // 2 Comments

ALLOWING THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR into Riverside Park has long been a worry for the denizens of Kamloops. Commercialization of the city’s gem must be avoided at all costs, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Bungled messaging on AstraZeneca will hurt vaccine rollout

May 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CANADIANS CAN BE FORGIVEN for feeling exasperated over the advice they’re getting on COVID-19 vaccines. The story is a familiar one. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Conflict rules for City councillors a case of ‘if it ain’t broke’

May 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

CONFLICT OF INTEREST rules are something no politician wants to run afoul of. It can cost them their job. That’s why they tend to be extra-careful, even overly careful, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New travel restrictions easy to break, easy to follow

April 28, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BARK OF TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS in B.C. is a lot worse than their bite.Take camping, for example. British Columbians must go camping in [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Science finally has an answer to those annual dog-poo blues

April 24, 2021 // 2 Comments

SPRING HAS SPRUNG and it’s time to pause for that annual tradition — complaining about other people’s dogs. I know, we’ve heard it all before but there’s a fresh [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Court of public opinion convicted Derek Chauvin long ago

April 21, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DEREK CHAUVIN was found guilty in the court of public opinion long before the judge read the verdicts at the end of his trial yesterday. The [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Living in the path of the Trans Mountain juggernaut

April 17, 2021 // 2 Comments

DRESSED IN THEIR ORANGE and fluorescent vests, they came first with their surveying equipment, distance measuring wheels and magnetic pipeline locators. Then they brought [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New public loos will be pricey, and where to put them?

April 14, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHEN IT COMES to real estate and public washrooms, it’s all about location. Kamloops City council spent an hour on Tuesday talking about [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Who’s most bummed by COVID? It’s not who you might think

April 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

WE ALL KNOW by now that COVID-19 is a bummer. It stresses out even the best of us but if you’re a business owner, teacher, healthcare provider or senior, it’s even [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Kudos to those who are giving us a real shot in the arm

April 7, 2021 // 2 Comments

An editorial to Mel Rothenburger. I GOT THE JAB yesterday. Right in the arm. It was very likely the smartest 45 minutes I’ve spent in more than a year. Kudos to the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – When eateries get shut down, Kamloops steps up and takes out

April 3, 2021 // 1 Comment

WHAT DOES KAMLOOPS DO when Dr. Bonnie Henry pulls another one of her surprise shutdowns? It orders takeout, of course. Here it is, the Easter long weekend, and we can’t go [Continue]

EDITORIAL – AstraZeneca – to jab or not to jab, that is the big question

March 31, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MY SHOT AT THE VACCINE is coming up pretty soon and, frankly, I’m concerned. It’s about this little problem with AstraZeneca. People [Continue]

EDITORIAL – There’s more to the $645,000 toilet than BC Libs are telling

March 30, 2021 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BATHROOMS ARE EXPENSIVE but $645,000 for a toilet? That’s how much the NDP government is spending on a public washroom in Vancouver, much [Continue]