ROTHENBURGER – No sign of a wave coming to help out candidates
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]
Armchair Mayor
ROTHENBURGER – We’ve now crossed the line of incivility into death threats
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
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?
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
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
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]
ROTHENBURGER – Encylopedia of old gets no respect, but people still read
ALMOST FIVE YEARS AGO, I began reading my pristine 1968 edition of The American People’s Encyclopedia. I bought it from a door-to-door salesman after I got my first [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Coffee shop democracy is always the best kind
IT’S 20 AFTER 4 on Thursday afternoon at the Moustache and Go coffee shop on Tranquille Road. The Moustache and Go has only been open a couple of weeks and its sign [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Plastic bags – remember the shoe commercial
THERE’S A SLOGAN in a running-shoe commercial that says, “Just do it.” Kamloops City councillors should remember it when they talk about banning plastic bags. A notice [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – What, exactly, is this ‘middle class’ everyone’s talking about?
WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE CLASS. Come on in. It’s a pretty big tent, this middle class, but our government — pick one; doesn’t matter which government — is there [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – The world decides not to play the killer’s game
AS SURELY AS IF by referendum in every country, in every city and every house on every street and country road, the world made a decision on Friday. It was the right [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – We’ve got to talk about suicide, but how do we do it?
A YEAR AGO on Thursday, my daughter Edyn killed herself. She was 38. A year before that, in the same month, her son, my grandson Mykel, killed himself. He was 16. We need to [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – One word scrawled on page 1 renders verdict in JWR case
THE NEWSPAPER IN THE COFFEE SHOP Friday morning said all there is to know about the scandal involving former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould. The story was, of course, [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – The dangers of not being careful with what we say
CLERK OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL Michael Wernick said Thursday what everybody else has been thinking but hasn’t wanted to say. “I’m worried that somebody is going to be shot [Continue]
