Armchair Archives

Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since tolls were taken off the Coquihalla. Here’s what I wrote about it on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008 in the Kamloops Daily News [Continue]

This column from the archives was first published on July 10, 2013. I WAS 16 when I got my first speeding ticket. Your first ticket is one of those rites of passage you [Continue]

A column by Kamloops News editor Mel Rothenburger published May 21, 1985. I WAS ACCUSED in a letter to the editor the other day of writing an editorial based on ignorance. A [Continue]

An Armchair Mayor column by Mel Rothenburger published in The Kamloops Daily News on Sept. 8, 2012. EACH WEEKDAY MORNING, university students exit the apartment buildings [Continue]

As mayor I wrote a column called City Hallways. Here’s the one published in 2004 on the occasion of Canada Day. IT WAS ANOTHER great Canada Day in Kamloops. With your [Continue]

What was Kamloops thinking about in February of 1988? Running bulls down Victoria Street and celebrating our Western heritage. This “Editor’s Notes” column was [Continue]

Today, we revisit the 1987 referendum on the proposed $50-million Waterfront Centre that would have included a convention centre, sports coliseum, museum and performing arts [Continue]