Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Interior Health ducks, weaves, obfuscates on parking

November 28, 2020 // 3 Comments

INTERIOR HEALTH HAS A PROBLEM it doesn’t want to talk about — a shortage of proper parking for Royal Inland Hospital staff. This might not seem like a big deal unless [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Here’s one party host who didn’t play his cards right

November 21, 2020 // 4 Comments

SOME GUY IN PINEVIEW VALLEY is more than three thousand dollars poorer today and I don’t feel at all sorry for him. For those who missed the story yesterday, police were [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Two years in, how are council newbies performing?

November 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

TWO NOVEMBERS AGO, a new Kamloops City council was sworn in. They took an oath to “truly, faithfully and impartially” carry out their duties. Four of the nine members of [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Trump’s blessed defeat, Noble Creek, and poppies in food stores

November 7, 2020 // 2 Comments

IT’S A SAFE BET Donald Trump has never heard of Kamloops. If he had, he’d probably mispronounce it, then make fun of it. But we know him. I can’t think of a single way [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The Armchair strikes back on Columbia West housing issue

October 31, 2020 // 3 Comments

‘SO PRAY TELL US MEL, what neighbourhood would be good for social housing? Let me guess… the North Shore right?” That’s what Gail Paton thought of my editorial this [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Protests and arrests were played out in a familiar script

October 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

THE DRAMA THAT PLAYED OUT at Trans Mountain work sites in Kamloops the past week and a half could have been written in advance. Same plot, same story line, same pictures as [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The many benefits of a snap election during the pandemic

October 17, 2020 // 1 Comment

FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING (including my own) about holding an election during the pandemic, things have gone quite nicely. With only a week to go until election day, everyone [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Following the herd and riding COVID-free on BC Ferries

October 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

AS WE SPEAK, I’m on Deck 4 of the MV Coastal Renaissance between Vancouver Island and the Mainland, her 21,000-horsepower diesel engines powering us across the strait at 23 [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Parties complete their slates; let the campaign begin

October 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT’S THE DAY BEFORE deadline day for nominating candidates. A few minutes before 10 a.m., former NDP candidate and current riding association secretary Tom Friedman herds a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – City Gardens housing project presents a Hobson’s Choice

September 26, 2020 // 3 Comments

TWENTY HERITAGE HOMES will be bulldozed if a major new downtown development goes ahead, which it probably will. The Kelson Group unveiled plans this week for a $140-million, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – John Horgan’s election temptation is in the numbers

September 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

THURSDAY CAME AND WENT and Premier John Horgan didn’t call an election. That was the day he unveiled his “Stronger B.C.” economic recovery plan, which was supposedly [Continue]

KNOX – Tiny rural schools look good during the pandemic

September 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

SAANICH POLICE caught a drunk driver doing more than twice the speed limit outside Campus View elementary on the first day of school. For real, they picked off the truck [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Wouldn’t it be nice if politicians knew what they were doing?

September 12, 2020 // 2 Comments

The notion that politicians should be experts only sounds good until we consider the concept more thoroughly POLITICIANS HAVE BEEN GETTING NEW JOBS from their bosses lately. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Time to stop being complacent about the threat of Ajax

September 5, 2020 // 5 Comments

JUST LIKE THAT, Ajax is back in the news. Abacus Mining and Exploration Corp. announced this week that KGHM, its senior partner in Ajax, has hired a new superintendent [Continue]