Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Plastic bag fiasco proves need for recall for city councils

July 13, 2019 // 2 Comments

DO YOU EVER WISH there was a way to throw the rascals out without waiting for the next election? There is at the provincial level, but not municipal. Maybe it’s time for an [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – City council’s toughest choice – green or growth

July 6, 2019 // 5 Comments

SELDOM HAS AN ISSUE been so starkly defined within the walls of Kamloops City Hall as during council’s climate change debate. And never before have we heard Coun. Arjun [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – You and I know less about Canada than we think we do

June 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

I CONSIDER MYSELF a good Canadian but, apparently, I’m not as good as I thought. The annual Historica.ca extreme trivia quiz is out. I barely passed it. Then I thought [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We’re making things too easy on our kids, and it’s not fair

June 22, 2019 // 1 Comment

WE’RE RUINING OUR KIDS, turning them into a bunch of confused, pampered wimps. We fight their fights in sports, in their education, in every aspect of their social [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – McLure Ferry’s 100th brings back memories of river tragedy

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE 100th ANNIVERSARY of the McLure Ferry is being celebrated this summer, though it’s actually been in operation almost 20 years longer than that. The date being used as [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Life in a small town can get a bit silly at times

June 15, 2019 // 3 Comments

LIFE IN A SMALL TOWN can get kind of silly, sometimes, can’t it? By small town, I mean, of course, small in the best sense of the word, a place where you can walk down the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We’re better off not knowing the answers to everything

June 8, 2019 // 1 Comment

AS MUCH AS HUMANS constantly pursue the unknown, I’m convinced there’s a part of us that doesn’t want to find the answers to everything. Certain things are best left as [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Busking bylaw was a solution looking for a problem

June 1, 2019 // 1 Comment

It was an attempt to increase the quality of busking, but what about the quality of panhandling? THE ‘STREET PERFORMANCE’ issue appears to finally be put to rest and [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – No sign of a wave coming to help out candidates

May 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

EVERYBODY IN TOWN knows who’s going to win the next federal election. Just ask them. And who will be the next MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo? Just ask them. Here’s a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We’ve now crossed the line of incivility into death threats

May 18, 2019 // 1 Comment

IT KEEPS GETTING TOUGHER and tougher to serve your community in politics. This week, a 52-year-old man was arrested for threatening the life of Kelowna mayor Colin Basran. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – New intersection speed cameras don’t go far enough

May 11, 2019 // 2 Comments

ONCE AGAIN, KAMLOOPS has been left out. Thirty-five B.C. intersections will be monitored with radar cameras to catch drivers who speed through. None will be in Kamloops. The [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Would you buy a used car from a politician?

May 4, 2019 // 1 Comment

I BOUGHT A USED VEHICLE a couple of weeks ago. It reminded me how little I understand about some parts of our tax system. I get the concepts of income taxes and property [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Reflections on having become an old man

April 27, 2019 // 12 Comments

I’M AN OLD MAN. That might not seem like much of an accomplishment to you, but there’ve been times when I thought I might not make it this far. I turned 75 this week and [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – City’s Heritage Commission ignored out of existence

April 20, 2019 // 2 Comments

KAMLOOPS CITY COUNCIL could learn a thing or two from the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral. Within hours of the devastating blaze that destroyed a large part of one of the [Continue]