Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – How governments self-promote instead of inform

April 27, 2024 // 5 Comments

ARE OUR PUBLIC BODIES in the information business, or the propaganda business? The answer might seem obvious but their way of going about it can be annoying. Every time one [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A modest proposal for a better citizen satisfaction survey

April 20, 2024 // 6 Comments

IT WILL SOON BE TIME for the Kamloops citizen satisfaction survey, when taxpayers will have an opportunity to say what they think of their city. The survey will be carried [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – In days of old, before Kamloops City Hall became a fortress…

April 13, 2024 // 8 Comments

CONTRARY TO PREVAILING public opinion, City Hall has not always been a place of discontent between councils and administrators. While there have been times when [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A surprise piece of mail reopens the debate on mayor’s conduct

April 6, 2024 // 15 Comments

THINGS SOMETIMES arrive in unexpected ways. Take the Integrity Group report on an investigation into Mayor Reid-Hamer Jackson’s conduct at City Hall, for example. The [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why I won’t be in any convoys protesting the carbon tax

March 30, 2024 // 6 Comments

THE CARBON TAX hasn’t changed my life. I don’t drive less because of it. Yet, I support this tax because I’m an environmentalist at heart and worry about climate [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How the handling of the McCorkell suspension was botched

March 29, 2024 // 8 Comments

I’M STILL PERPLEXED about a few things surrounding the Byron McCorkell saga. Last evening’s announcement by councillors that they had, by a vote of 8-0, re-instated [Continue]