Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER: Will council’s ‘bold move’ usher in a new era of planning?

July 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

‘BOLD LEADERSHIP’ has been a self-described aspiration of Kamloops City council since it took office almost three years ago. “Bold leadership for a strong, inclusive, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Planting a memorial tree shouldn’t be nearly this difficult

July 17, 2021 // 1 Comment

THE NARROW STREET that winds through 1950 Braeview Place is lined with trees and bushes. In front of each townhouse, a Saskatoon, hawthorn, cedar or red crabapple lends shade [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Unfounded rumours are spreading like wildfire these says

July 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE RUMOUR MILL doesn’t need much encouragement to start churning, especially when people are nervous and uncertain about what’s going on around them. What’s going on [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Wildfire beast may be coming to the street where you live

July 3, 2021 // 0 Comments

A MOST UNWELCOME GUEST is coming to town, and its name is Wildfire. A few hours before his community was leveled this week, Lytton Mayor Jan Polderman was talking to local [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Canceling Canada Day won’t solve what ails our country

June 26, 2021 // 1 Comment

EACH JULY 1, we traditionally celebrate the diversity of our community and of our country. The usual celebrations at Riverside Park won’t happen this year, cancelled again [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Fist bumps and other things from the pandemic we should keep

June 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

PHASE TWO, WEEK ONE and things are looking fairly rosy as far as getting through the pandemic goes, assuming that SOB Delta variant doesn’t get a foothold in B.C. So, a few [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – ‘I could write a book’ about working security on Victoria West

June 12, 2021 // 1 Comment

THREE MONTHS AGO, Rick Eldridge was working in a job he loved. After 35 years as a chef, he’d moved to Kamloops from Bella Coola and gotten certification as a security [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Man who ran down family with his truck doesn’t deserve notoriety

June 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A DESPICABLE YOUNG MAN jumped his pickup truck onto a sidewalk in London, Ont. last weekend and killed four members of an extended family. A [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Canada Day Ray ’90 per cent’ ready to kick off run for mayor

June 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

IT MIGHT SEEM EARLY to start talking about next year’s civic election but, not really. That’s because there’s already a mayoralty race in the making. Nobody is going to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Finding somewhere for the street folks to go isn’t easy

June 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED, as you drive up from Victoria Street West onto Seymour, there’s usually a half dozen street folks hanging out at the honking big utilities box [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Discovery of gravesites highlights the tragedy of Indian residential schools

May 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE GRIM DISCOVERY of the apparent gravesites of 215 children will undoubtedly change some thinking about what went on at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in the almost [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – More on the park decision and high-risk takedowns

May 22, 2021 // 0 Comments

SOME FURTHER DETAILS need to be laid out to fully understand how an extremely effective lobby from within the business community quickly worked its way up through the City [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Remembering Capt. Jenn Casey one year after Snowbirds tragedy

May 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

NOTE: Today, May 17, 2021 is the one-year anniversary of the Snowbirds’ crash in Kamloops and the tragic death of Capt. Jenn Casey. The following column was originally [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – ‘They really must do something’ about crime but what, and who’s ‘they’?

May 15, 2021 // 1 Comment

THEY REALLY MUST DO SOMETHING. That’s what we usually say when we’re frustrated about the way things are going but have no answers to offer. When we don’t even know who [Continue]