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ROTHENBURGER – Politicians should be allowed to tell bad jokes once in awhile

February 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

WE’VE LOST our sense of humour. I recently made a joke about Prince George in an editorial and received a heated rebuke from a reader. I fully expected to get the same [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Every move you make, ‘they’ are watching you

February 3, 2018 // 3 Comments

Big Brother is upon us, and he looks like a teenager living in his parents’ basement in Slovenia, buying malware from the dark web and infecting every detail of our lives. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Giving animals the benefit of the precautionary principle

January 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

ONE SNOWY evening two winters ago, I happened to look out a window towards our hay shed, a couple of hundred steps from the house. A motion-sensor light on the shed suddenly [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How 107 downtown employees scored $55,000 parking stalls

January 20, 2018 // 3 Comments

Meanwhile, our very own ‘backbench cheerleader” squares off with BC Green party leader Andrew Weaver on ‘bringing down the government’ ITEM: City of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Please spare us from an Oprah-Donald contest in 2020

January 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

January 13, 2018 // 3 Comments

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]