Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER: Conflict rules for City councillors a case of ‘if it ain’t broke’

May 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

CONFLICT OF INTEREST rules are something no politician wants to run afoul of. It can cost them their job. That’s why they tend to be extra-careful, even overly careful, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Science finally has an answer to those annual dog-poo blues

April 24, 2021 // 2 Comments

SPRING HAS SPRUNG and it’s time to pause for that annual tradition — complaining about other people’s dogs. I know, we’ve heard it all before but there’s a fresh [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Living in the path of the Trans Mountain juggernaut

April 17, 2021 // 2 Comments

DRESSED IN THEIR ORANGE and fluorescent vests, they came first with their surveying equipment, distance measuring wheels and magnetic pipeline locators. Then they brought [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Who’s most bummed by COVID? It’s not who you might think

April 10, 2021 // 0 Comments

WE ALL KNOW by now that COVID-19 is a bummer. It stresses out even the best of us but if you’re a business owner, teacher, healthcare provider or senior, it’s even [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – When eateries get shut down, Kamloops steps up and takes out

April 3, 2021 // 1 Comment

WHAT DOES KAMLOOPS DO when Dr. Bonnie Henry pulls another one of her surprise shutdowns? It orders takeout, of course. Here it is, the Easter long weekend, and we can’t go [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: The ‘broken trust’ between City Hall and Rose Hill

March 27, 2021 // 4 Comments

THE TOP OF ROSE HILL is very different from what you might have seen the last time you drove up there. The area immediately south of the original subdivision — at the point [Continue]