Armchair Mayor

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]

ROTHENBURGER – Why it’s okay, and even necessary, to grieve for our dogs

September 1, 2018 // 3 Comments

(Video: Courtesy Kent Simmonds, CFJC-TV) His dog up and died He up and died After twenty years he still grieves — Lyrics, Mr. Bojangles. I’VE ALWAYS MARVELLED at the ease [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A nostalgia tour up Goose Lake Road, post-Ajax mine

August 25, 2018 // 1 Comment

TOOK A NOSTALGIA TOUR this week, driving up Goose Lake Road. It’s different now than when KGHM was busy with pre-development on the Ajax project, but there are relics all [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Warning to candidates: prepare for crap and abuse

August 18, 2018 // 2 Comments

IT’S COMMON SPECULATION that at least 30 people will put their names forward for councillor positions plus several for mayor in the upcoming Kamloops civic election. [Continue]