Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Would you jump in to stop someone’s racist tirade?

November 2, 2019 // 2 Comments

HAVE YOU EVER been in a convenience store or a restaurant and heard people speaking in a foreign language? Did it bother you? It bothers the hell out of some people, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – From death metal to hip hop – how Daz Tha Punk turned his life around

October 26, 2019 // 2 Comments

IT’S BEEN FOUR YEARS since the last time I had coffee with Daz Tha Punk. Back then he was going by the performance name Bloodlust Abominator of Ritual War Incantations — [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Here’s one City council that won’t stay silent on Bill 21

October 24, 2019 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. KELOWNA CITY COUNCIL made a gutsy decision this week to which other City councils — not to mention federal politicians — should pay [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Don’t worry about the turnout, just think first, then vote

October 19, 2019 // 1 Comment

FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING, I’m going to get up and drive to my designated polling station. It’s a small polling station; very few people vote there so it likely won’t [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Gut instinct might still be the best election poll of all

October 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

WHILE THE REST OF US make election predictions based on the science of gut instinct, idle speculation and wishful thinking, there are actual experts at work using more [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – An update on the St. Andrew’s on the Square disagreement

October 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

I HAD A LONG CONVERSATION yesterday (Oct. 9, 2019) with Byron McCorkell, the City’s Community and Protective Services director, about St. Andrew’s on the Square. I worked [Continue]