Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Encylopedia of old gets no respect, but people still read

April 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

ALMOST FIVE YEARS AGO, I began reading my pristine 1968 edition of The American People’s Encyclopedia. I bought it from a door-to-door salesman after I got my first [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Coffee shop democracy is always the best kind

April 6, 2019 // 4 Comments

IT’S 20 AFTER 4 on Thursday afternoon at the Moustache and Go coffee shop on Tranquille Road. The Moustache and Go has only been open a couple of weeks and its sign [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Plastic bags – remember the shoe commercial

March 30, 2019 // 5 Comments

THERE’S A SLOGAN in a running-shoe commercial that says, “Just do it.” Kamloops City councillors should remember it when they talk about banning plastic bags. A notice [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – What, exactly, is this ‘middle class’ everyone’s talking about?

March 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE CLASS. Come on in. It’s a pretty big tent, this middle class, but our government — pick one; doesn’t matter which government — is there [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The world decides not to play the killer’s game

March 16, 2019 // 2 Comments

AS SURELY AS IF by referendum in every country, in every city and every house on every street and country road, the world made a decision on Friday. It was the right [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We’ve got to talk about suicide, but how do we do it?

March 9, 2019 // 9 Comments

A YEAR AGO on Thursday, my daughter Edyn killed herself. She was 38. A year before that, in the same month, her son, my grandson Mykel, killed himself. He was 16. We need to [Continue]