Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – The other side of the Coun. Denis Walsh vaccination story

October 30, 2021 // 3 Comments

‘We shouldn’t fire people with natural immunity, we should hire them.’ — Bill Maher, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. I WAS SITTING in The Vic this week with a friend — the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Cats should be licensed, fixed and allowed to run free

October 23, 2021 // 1 Comment

IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW, Kamloops has a cat problem. It was ever thus. The SPCA says the town has a cat overpopulation “crisis.” It says 78 per cent of the BC SPCA’s [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Vaccine cards and the sudden switch to ‘fast food’ service

October 16, 2021 // 3 Comments

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER of invention, and some Kamloops restaurants have been getting creative in order to legally skirt B.C.’s vaccine card law. Whether their methodology [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Strip clubs are dead, thanks to attitudes and technology

October 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

STRIP CLUBS, or “peeler bars” as some call them, are, it seems, officially dead in Kamloops. Few will mourn their demise but they were certainly part of an interesting [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Is a return to big institutions the answer to street issues?

October 2, 2021 // 4 Comments

THERE WAS A TIME when the streets weren’t full of homeless, addicted, criminal or mentally ill people. A time when there were no panhandlers, when public washrooms [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City’s loss of a million dollars in funding is a head scratcher

September 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A MILLION DOLLARS is not chump change, especially to taxpayers. City council has been scratching its head over how Kamloops lost out on a [Continue]