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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]

ROTHENBURGER – One word scrawled on page 1 renders verdict in JWR case

March 2, 2019 // 9 Comments

THE NEWSPAPER IN THE COFFEE SHOP Friday morning said all there is to know about the scandal involving former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould. The story was, of course, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The dangers of not being careful with what we say

February 23, 2019 // 1 Comment

CLERK OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL Michael Wernick said Thursday what everybody else has been thinking but hasn’t wanted to say. “I’m worried that somebody is going to be shot [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The Pinantan chicken and other tales of being grounded in the polar vortex

February 16, 2019 // 1 Comment

WHEN EVEN winter-hardened veterans from our neck of the woods complain about the weather, you know things aren’t normal. I haven’t heard this much bitching since Tim [Continue]