Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Does Christianity need more atheist church ministers?

November 17, 2018 // 1 Comment

WHAT’S ORGANIZED RELIGION coming to? When a minister in the United Church not only is an atheist, but is supported in her atheism by her church, you know times they are [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Tongue-twister name for new trail could be a good thing

November 10, 2018 // 2 Comments

HAVE YOU TRIED OUT the new Xget’tem’ Trail? That’s the name of the multi-use paved path from Sahali to the bottom of Peterson Creek Park. It means Deep Valley in [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – When politicians cry, it doesn’t mean they’re crybabies

November 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

POLITICIANS DON’T CRY, do they? Well, yes they do. It was quite the tear fest during the final meeting of the outgoing Kamloops City council this week. I don’t recall [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Maybe Kamloops should leave arts and culture to Vernon

October 27, 2018 // 6 Comments

VERNON HAS SHOWN Kamloops how it’s done. Again. Last Saturday, Vernon residents voted to build themselves a $40-million multi-purpose cultural facility downtown. Of that, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – There’s no law that says politicians have to listen

October 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

DOES FREEDOM OF SPEECH include the right not to listen? If we refuse to listen to someone, are we violating their right to be heard? And what if we want to speak, but don’t [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Announcing winners of the 2018 ‘Best Civic Election Signs’

October 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

WITH ALL THE ISSUES to talk about in the civic election — parking, businesses taxes, dirty needles, the performing arts centre, housing and so on and so on — we seem to [Continue]

ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Don’t be fooled by the hocus pocus of prop rep math

October 6, 2018 // 11 Comments

THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS wrong with the referendum on proportional representation, it would take as long to cover it all as it would to explain the convoluted and foggy [Continue]

ARMCHAIR MAYOR – It’s time for introverts to throw off our shackles

September 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY, there are only four types of personalities. This flies in the face of previous wisdom that there are eight, or even 16. I can narrow it down even [Continue]

ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Running twice, running in place and not running at all

September 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

SOME CIVIC ELECTION odds and ends to catch up on this week. I’ve recently written about a couple of quirks of our civic election system. One is that people are allowed to [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why it’s okay, and even necessary, to grieve for our dogs

September 1, 2018 // 3 Comments

(Video: Courtesy Kent Simmonds, CFJC-TV) His dog up and died He up and died After twenty years he still grieves — Lyrics, Mr. Bojangles. I’VE ALWAYS MARVELLED at the ease [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A nostalgia tour up Goose Lake Road, post-Ajax mine

August 25, 2018 // 1 Comment

TOOK A NOSTALGIA TOUR this week, driving up Goose Lake Road. It’s different now than when KGHM was busy with pre-development on the Ajax project, but there are relics all [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Warning to candidates: prepare for crap and abuse

August 18, 2018 // 2 Comments

IT’S COMMON SPECULATION that at least 30 people will put their names forward for councillor positions plus several for mayor in the upcoming Kamloops civic election. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How about we tell drop-in politicians to stay home?

August 11, 2018 // 4 Comments

AS LONG AS WE’RE TALKING about electoral reform, how about we do something about drop-in politicians? Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has announced he’ll run in a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – New Hydro levy one more thing to raise our blood pressure

August 4, 2018 // 1 Comment

And why must cats walk in front of us, and why can’t stores put dates on receipts where can see them? OUR FIRST HYDRO bills with the new tax have arrived. The Customer [Continue]