Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Maybe Kamloops should leave arts and culture to Vernon

October 27, 2018 // 6 Comments

VERNON HAS SHOWN Kamloops how it’s done. Again. Last Saturday, Vernon residents voted to build themselves a $40-million multi-purpose cultural facility downtown. Of that, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – There’s no law that says politicians have to listen

October 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

DOES FREEDOM OF SPEECH include the right not to listen? If we refuse to listen to someone, are we violating their right to be heard? And what if we want to speak, but don’t [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Announcing winners of the 2018 ‘Best Civic Election Signs’

October 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

WITH ALL THE ISSUES to talk about in the civic election — parking, businesses taxes, dirty needles, the performing arts centre, housing and so on and so on — we seem to [Continue]

ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Don’t be fooled by the hocus pocus of prop rep math

October 6, 2018 // 11 Comments

THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS wrong with the referendum on proportional representation, it would take as long to cover it all as it would to explain the convoluted and foggy [Continue]

ARMCHAIR MAYOR – It’s time for introverts to throw off our shackles

September 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY, there are only four types of personalities. This flies in the face of previous wisdom that there are eight, or even 16. I can narrow it down even [Continue]

ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Running twice, running in place and not running at all

September 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

SOME CIVIC ELECTION odds and ends to catch up on this week. I’ve recently written about a couple of quirks of our civic election system. One is that people are allowed to [Continue]