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ROTHENBURGER – When will healthcare system wake up to the sleep crisis?

December 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

“YOU HAVE INSOMNIA,” the doctor told me as she scrolled through screen after screen of charts, graphs, notations and squiggly lines, the results of my night at the sleep [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Charge for overnight parking downtown? What’s next?

December 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

Not all ideas amount to anything, but without them nothing ever gets done THERE ARE HOPEFUL SIGNS from City council chambers. Rookies are sometimes afflicted by a bad case of [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – News media need a new business model, not handouts

November 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

THE NEWS MEDIA are about to get help from the taxpayer — it’s help they neither deserve nor need. Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau this week announced $600 million [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Does Christianity need more atheist church ministers?

November 17, 2018 // 1 Comment

WHAT’S ORGANIZED RELIGION coming to? When a minister in the United Church not only is an atheist, but is supported in her atheism by her church, you know times they are [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Tongue-twister name for new trail could be a good thing

November 10, 2018 // 2 Comments

HAVE YOU TRIED OUT the new Xget’tem’ Trail? That’s the name of the multi-use paved path from Sahali to the bottom of Peterson Creek Park. It means Deep Valley in [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – When politicians cry, it doesn’t mean they’re crybabies

November 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

POLITICIANS DON’T CRY, do they? Well, yes they do. It was quite the tear fest during the final meeting of the outgoing Kamloops City council this week. I don’t recall [Continue]