ROTHENBURGER – When municipal politicians think they’re worth too much
HOW MUCH IS a municipal politician worth? A common answer among taxpayers is likely to be, less than they’re getting. It’s a serious question, though, and a [Continue]
Armchair Mayor
ROTHENBURGER: ‘Just plain evil’ columnist contemplates his fan mail
MY FRIEND Jack Knox, a best-selling author and award-winning newspaper columnist, has a January tradition of collecting some of his favourite insults from among those [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Crapstorm blowing in City Hall over Westsyde pipeline issue
HERE’S A straight-forward question. Supposing, five or 10 years from now, the oil pipeline that runs through Westsyde splits a seam or whatever it is pipeiines do when they [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Let’s stand up and say what we mean, not just sort of
THE FOLLOWING QUOTE, not a word of a lie, is verbatim from an on-air media interview in which a guest is being asked about a political issue: “So, you know, can sort of [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Five important things Kamloops must get done in 2020
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS have never been much of a thing with me. I tend to make them as easy as possible in order to avoid failure. In 2020, for example, I will vow to pay [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Frootloops council looks ahead to a brand new decade
FROOTLOOPS COUNCIL gathers for its last meeting of the decade. His Wordship Mayor Ken Kringle bangs his gavel. MAYOR KRINGLE: I call the meeting to order. May I first [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER: Tank the cat and other stories of Kamloops’ generosity
IS IT ANY SURPRISE that Kamloops is the most generous city in Canada? According to GoFundMe, Tournament Capital residents gave more per capita through the fundraising [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER: Door still open a crack to friendly resolution on St. Andrew’s
HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL in the St. Andrew’s on the Square case. Just when you think the ship had sailed (to use Coun. Dieter Dudy’s description), new possibilities emerge. [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – What we need in this country is a special racism court
ANOTHER PERSONALITY LOST his job Friday over racist remarks. The latest offender is Calgary Flames head coach Bill Peters, who resigned after revelations he used racist slurs [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Say a prayer for our politicians, as long as it’s the right kind
WHEN THE B.C. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY resumes sitting Monday morning, one of its members will recite a prayer, as usual. Some people don’t like those prayers. They don’t [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – A city’s history of failure in dealing with parking problem
FOR A CITY SO CODEPENDENT on automobiles, Kamloops has a strange aversion to figuring out where to park them. When my grandfather bought one of Kamloops’ first motorized [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Are the 2015 and 2020 PAC plans really ‘totally different’?
‘THIS ONE IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT.’ You’ve probably heard that line more than once from proponents of the new performing arts centre proposal, and you’ll most certainly [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Would you jump in to stop someone’s racist tirade?
HAVE YOU EVER been in a convenience store or a restaurant and heard people speaking in a foreign language? Did it bother you? It bothers the hell out of some people, [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – From death metal to hip hop – how Daz Tha Punk turned his life around
IT’S BEEN FOUR YEARS since the last time I had coffee with Daz Tha Punk. Back then he was going by the performance name Bloodlust Abominator of Ritual War Incantations — [Continue]
