Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – A few yoga classes won’t ‘commercialize’ Riverside Park

May 8, 2021 // 2 Comments

ALLOWING THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR into Riverside Park has long been a worry for the denizens of Kamloops. Commercialization of the city’s gem must be avoided at all costs, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Conflict rules for City councillors a case of ‘if it ain’t broke’

May 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

CONFLICT OF INTEREST rules are something no politician wants to run afoul of. It can cost them their job. That’s why they tend to be extra-careful, even overly careful, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Science finally has an answer to those annual dog-poo blues

April 24, 2021 // 2 Comments

SPRING HAS SPRUNG and it’s time to pause for that annual tradition — complaining about other people’s dogs. I know, we’ve heard it all before but there’s a fresh [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Living in the path of the Trans Mountain juggernaut

April 17, 2021 // 2 Comments

DRESSED IN THEIR ORANGE and fluorescent vests, they came first with their surveying equipment, distance measuring wheels and magnetic pipeline locators. Then they brought [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Who’s most bummed by COVID? It’s not who you might think

April 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

WE ALL KNOW by now that COVID-19 is a bummer. It stresses out even the best of us but if you’re a business owner, teacher, healthcare provider or senior, it’s even [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – When eateries get shut down, Kamloops steps up and takes out

April 3, 2021 // 1 Comment

WHAT DOES KAMLOOPS DO when Dr. Bonnie Henry pulls another one of her surprise shutdowns? It orders takeout, of course. Here it is, the Easter long weekend, and we can’t go [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: The ‘broken trust’ between City Hall and Rose Hill

March 27, 2021 // 4 Comments

THE TOP OF ROSE HILL is very different from what you might have seen the last time you drove up there. The area immediately south of the original subdivision — at the point [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Tournament Capital needs a fresh look at herbicide use

March 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

THERE ARE TWO THINGS I think of whenever I see a picture or news story originating in St. John’s, Newfoundland. One is the beautiful multi-color paint jobs on the City’s [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Is there no end to the cruelty we visit upon wild animals?

March 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE WAR ON WILD ANIMALS continues. We’ve become very accomplished at terminating them with extreme prejudice. The BC SPCA is calling for a national ban on a trio of [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Crackdown against KFS shows science isn’t everything

March 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE. That’s been the mantra of those in charge of the strategy to defeat COVID-19 and it’s a good one. Too many people don’t get that. They refuse to [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – School dress codes are needed but they’re hard to get right

February 27, 2021 // 4 Comments

NOTHING LIKE A DRESS CODE to make for a good controversy, especially if it’s got to do with schools. As the Kamloops-Thompson School District mulls over changes to its [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Nothing like a night in ER to make us appreciate health care

February 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

IF YOU HAPPENED to spend the night on a gurney in the Emergency Department hallway recently, you would have gotten a pretty good idea of the challenges faced by our [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Solution to disappearing shopping carts remains elusive

February 13, 2021 // 2 Comments

GOING ON FOUR YEARS after shopping carts became a high-profile issue, there’s still no solution. In 2017, RCMP embarked on a crackdown on shopping-cart theft, seizing carts [Continue]

EDITORIAL: We should vaccinate for one Olympics and boycott the other

February 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HERE’S A TALE of two Olympics. If all goes well, Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Games later this year. Not far away, Beijing is preparing [Continue]