ROTHENBURGER – How 107 downtown employees scored $55,000 parking stalls
Meanwhile, our very own ‘backbench cheerleader” squares off with BC Green party leader Andrew Weaver on ‘bringing down the government’ ITEM: City of [Continue]
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EDITORIAL – Please spare us from an Oprah-Donald contest in 2020
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S COINCIDENTAL that Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration, and that the [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Political hopefuls could learn a lot from Pat Wallace
PAT WALLACE hasn’t been on Kamloops City council forever. It just seems like it, in a good way. When I arrived in Kamloops in 1970, it was the time of Mayor Peter Wing and [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – To Donald Trump, from all those shithole countries
U.S. President Donald Trump complained about immigration from “shithole countries” Thursday. The Washington Post, based on sources who were present at the time, [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Urban winter wussies need to count their blessings
I WAS STANDING at the kitchen window Friday morning, enjoying my first jolt of caffeine, gazing out at the frozen river. It’s always frozen this time of year. In the [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – We live in an age of exaggeration, and we aren’t listening
IN ANTICIPATION of the new year, I will get my almost-annual rant about how we abuse the English language off my chest. This time, my gripe is with our impulse to make [Continue]
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