Armchair Archives

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]

This month marks the 200thanniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. The following column was published in The Kamloops News on March 30, 1977, very likely the last time I [Continue]

This column by Mel Rothenburger was published on Dec. 7, 1977: LETTERS TO the editor during the past couple of weeks have brought out into the open what has previously been a [Continue]