Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER: The eternal question – what should be taught in school?

September 24, 2022 // 6 Comments

I LEARNED A LOT of useless stuff (or, as Paul Simon put it, “crap”) in high school. More accurately, my teachers tried to teach me; sometimes I didn’t learn much of it. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Is cutting off the ‘lolly’ a way of saying NDP is out of ideas?

September 17, 2022 // 1 Comment

LOWERING EXPECTATIONS seems to be the strategy of the John Horgan government this week. He chose the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler to do it. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Get rid of the monarchy? We may as well get rid of hockey

September 10, 2022 // 1 Comment

‘I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER — Good voices being lost at Kamloops City council table

September 3, 2022 // 2 Comments

CHANGE IS COMING to Kamloops City council — more than half the current office-holders will be gone after the Oct. 15 civic election. Folks who have been crying “Throw the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Lisa LaFlamme, the media and drawing our own conclusions

August 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

MOST EVENINGS for the past several years, our TV set has been tuned to the CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme (but not before the local news, of course). LaFlamme is, or [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Warning signs are everywhere, and we should heed them

August 13, 2022 // 2 Comments

SIGNS ARE EVERYWHERE. Literally. I mean the physical ones, the kind we can read. We rely on them to tell us where to go, where not to go, what to do and…. what not to do. [Continue]