ROTHENBURGER – The ‘It’s not who I am’ excuse doesn’t work anymore
THERE’S AN OLD saying in business, “It’s better to ask forgiveness than permission.” Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. There’s a new saying when [Continue]
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EDITORIAL – City at least half right with proposal for McIsland golf property
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WELL, IT LOOKS like the City is on the right track with the question of what to do with the McArthur Island mini-golf [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – City’s newest public art piece should have good wheels
I CAN HARDLY WAIT for the unveiling of our next major piece of public art, a monument to the volunteers of the 2017 wildfires. Public art in Kamloops is always like opening a [Continue]
ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Handling of parkade incompetent or brilliant?
The following Armchair Mayor column was published Oct. 12, 2011 as the proposal for a parkade in the Heritage House parking lot came to a conclusion: AS THE COUNTING gets [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Suzuki row shows risk of relying on corporate funding
If corporate donations are going to be clawed back over something as unimportant as an honorary doctorate to an unpopular environmentalist, what will happen when something [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Running a big university is not an easy gig
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of Thompson Rivers University’s new president had scarcely been made before word got around about a high-profile incident he’d been involved in at his [Continue]
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