Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER: Tank the cat and other stories of Kamloops’ generosity

December 14, 2019 // 1 Comment

IS IT ANY SURPRISE that Kamloops is the most generous city in Canada? According to GoFundMe, Tournament Capital residents gave more per capita through the fundraising [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Door still open a crack to friendly resolution on St. Andrew’s

December 7, 2019 // 1 Comment

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL in the St. Andrew’s on the Square case. Just when you think the ship had sailed (to use Coun. Dieter Dudy’s description), new possibilities emerge. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – What we need in this country is a special racism court

November 30, 2019 // 1 Comment

ANOTHER PERSONALITY LOST his job Friday over racist remarks. The latest offender is Calgary Flames head coach Bill Peters, who resigned after revelations he used racist slurs [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Say a prayer for our politicians, as long as it’s the right kind

November 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

WHEN THE B.C. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY resumes sitting Monday morning, one of its members will recite a prayer, as usual. Some people don’t like those prayers. They don’t [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A city’s history of failure in dealing with parking problem

November 16, 2019 // 4 Comments

FOR A CITY SO CODEPENDENT on automobiles, Kamloops has a strange aversion to figuring out where to park them. When my grandfather bought one of Kamloops’ first motorized [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Are the 2015 and 2020 PAC plans really ‘totally different’?

November 9, 2019 // 8 Comments

‘THIS ONE IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT.’ You’ve probably heard that line more than once from proponents of the new performing arts centre proposal, and you’ll most certainly [Continue]