Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Why is City Hall keeping letter to Kahlon a big secret?

May 5, 2025 // 3 Comments

LIKE PRECIOUS PENNIES, City Hall carefully guards its information and shares it cautiously. A week and a half ago, local media reported on discussions between Municipal [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How TNRD directors set up their pay raise to avoid a ‘cheese grater’

April 5, 2025 // 2 Comments

WHEN REGIONAL DIRECTORS gave themselves a small raise for the coming year, it was done through a motion that received no debate and a quick vote. That was in February. When [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How curling was ruined by trying to make it better

March 29, 2025 // 2 Comments

CURLING USED TO BE a great sport. Things went wrong along the way. I confess, I love watching curling. I watched as much of the World Women’s Curling Championship as I [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – As we await Sarai probe, Kahlon declines involvement

March 25, 2025 // 5 Comments

AS A CITY HALL investigation into Coun. Bill Sarai’s clandestine taping of a conversation with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson remains a work in progress, Municipal Affairs [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Draining the swamp is nothing new, not in Kamloops

March 21, 2025 // 2 Comments

Long, long ago, before Donald Trump and Elon Musk came along to drain the swamp, take a chainsaw to bureaucracy and seek revenge on political opponents, there was the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Measles is back; what if we don’t know if we’re immune?

March 20, 2025 // 6 Comments

MEASLES IS on the rise. It was supposed to have been eradicated years ago, but relaxation of vaccine programs in some parts of the world, combined with international travel [Continue]