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ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Heritage Commission ignored out of existence

October 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

The following column was originally published April 20, 2019. The Kamloops Heritage Commission was a different group than the Kamloops Heritage Society that operates St. [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Should parents ask their kids to take sides?

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

A reminder of what things were like during the B.C. teachers’ strike of 2014. The following editorial by Mel Rothenburger was published on ArmchairMayor.ca on Sept. 2, [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Traffic plan should return Seymour to two-way

August 16, 2019 // 1 Comment

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger first published May 24, 2018. KAMLOOPS CITY HALL is in the last days of its public-input phase for a new transportation [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – B.C. Day sure seemed like a good idea at the time

August 2, 2019 // 1 Comment

The following column was first posted on Aug. 3, 2014. THIS IS THE B.C. DAY long weekend. It’s B.C. Day on Monday, though nobody knows why. Mostly, it seemed like a good [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The stuff the school board talks about in secret

March 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

This column was originally published in the Kamloops News on March 1, 1978: THIS WEEK WAS THE FIRST in which local news media received in advance the background [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The loneliness of the civic-election candidate

October 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

Campaigning is stressful, and there’s no more stressful time than the home stretch. At the same time, there’s a sort of relief that it will soon be over. I wrote [Continue]