Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Eby housing strategy pushes us back to the era of little boxes

November 25, 2023 // 3 Comments

THE MARCH TO TICKY TACKY continues apace. David Eby’s NDP government is determined to run roughshod over the rights of cities to plan how they’ll grow. Maybe Pete [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We don’t have a moral obligation to give drug users free rein

November 18, 2023 // 5 Comments

CHALLENGES TO NEW restrictions on public consumption of illicit drugs show just how far things have gotten out of whack in our society. Increasingly, it seems, those who [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: A visit to Auschwitz and a question – could it happen again?

November 11, 2023 // 9 Comments

SATURDAYS ARE BUSY at Auschwitz. Eighty years ago, people came by freight train. Most never left. Now they come by car or bus for a few hours, reservation tickets in hand. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – If paid parking is forced on Tranquille corridor, it should get the benefit

October 26, 2023 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PAID PARKING on the Tranquille corridor retail strip isn’t something that’s going to get anyone in civic politics votes. In [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why would anybody in their right mind go into journalism?

October 21, 2023 // 7 Comments

STOP ME IF YOU’VE heard this one but, in 1968, I was broke, out of a job, and had a young family to support. I’d been fired from a Prince George newspaper after it [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: If you liked council’s first year, just imagine the next three

October 14, 2023 // 3 Comments

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, it’s been a year since the civic election. On Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, voters went to the polls and made their choices for who would run Kamloops for the [Continue]