Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – City’s nuisance properties bylaw is proving its worth

December 12, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT’S A BIT RICH, to say the least, that the Kamloops Accommodation Association is grouching about the City’s crackdown on nuisance motels on Columbia Street West. That [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Complaining about COVID rules shouldn’t cost you your job

December 8, 2020 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE GUY WHO SINGS for the Vancouver Canucks is out of a job. His name is Mark Donnelly and, up until last weekend, he was employed by the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We’ve got to suck it up and obey the rules even if it hurts

December 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

I WAS STRUCK THIS WEEK by the story of Kamloops dance instructor Krista Faraday. One day, she wasn’t sure if she’d have a business left. The next, her studio was filled [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Interior Health ducks, weaves, obfuscates on parking

November 28, 2020 // 3 Comments

INTERIOR HEALTH HAS A PROBLEM it doesn’t want to talk about — a shortage of proper parking for Royal Inland Hospital staff. This might not seem like a big deal unless [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Here’s one party host who didn’t play his cards right

November 21, 2020 // 4 Comments

SOME GUY IN PINEVIEW VALLEY is more than three thousand dollars poorer today and I don’t feel at all sorry for him. For those who missed the story yesterday, police were [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Two years in, how are council newbies performing?

November 14, 2020 // 1 Comment

TWO NOVEMBERS AGO, a new Kamloops City council was sworn in. They took an oath to “truly, faithfully and impartially” carry out their duties. Four of the nine members of [Continue]