ROTHENBURGER – There’s a proven option to warehousing the homeless
‘HOMELESSNESS IS CAUSED by poverty, so we have to tackle poverty by creating more housing. ‘Once we get everybody housed, the crime-addictions-mental illness [Continue]
Armchair Mayor
ROTHENBURGER – Frootloops council stars in its own sappy Christmas movie
FROOTLOOPS COUNCIL gathers around the horseshoe for a secret meeting on Christmas Eve to discuss matters of importance. Mayor Jackhammer is in the chair. MAYOR JACKHAMMER: [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Thin red line leads, eventually, to emergency department
A THIN RED LINE runs from the front of Royal Inland Hospital all the way to the back. It has nothing to do with Rudyard Kipling or the Sean Penn movie. It’s a literal thin [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Undaunted, the mayor carries on after a very busy week
IT’S BEEN A BUSY WEEK for Mayor RHJ, and not in a good way. But in the midst of the chaos, he found an hour for coffee with the Armchair Mayor to talk about it. He was [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Back alleys could be people places if we gave them a chance
THE BACK ALLEYS of Kamloops aren’t anywhere you want to spend a lot of time in. They’re stark, grungy places with busted up concrete, graffiti vandalism everywhere, [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Annual Black Friday frenzy just isn’t what it used to be
I WENT IN SEARCH of Black Friday yesterday. Couldn’t find it anywhere. There were lots of signs, just no people. Some announced simply, “Black Friday Sale Now On,” [Continue]
