Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – We need to laugh more about parking tickets and colonoscopies

October 21, 2017 // 4 Comments

“JACK KNOX is a friend of mine,” I told the mayor of one of the infinite number of municipalities that make up Greater Victoria. I say this every time I run into [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The line between curiosity and invasion of privacy

October 14, 2017 // 2 Comments

PRIVACY is hard to come by these days. The world has become a place without filters, where the best and the worst in us have full range of expression, and where lives can be [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Retirement is OK, after work and on weekends

October 7, 2017 // 3 Comments

RETIREMENT is hard work. Five years ago I wrote a column on my first day of official retirement. I reflected on what it was like not going to work that day, attending to all [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A topsy-turvy week of politics in B.C.

September 30, 2017 // 7 Comments

After-hours talk at UBCM convention was about the Kamloops by-election, and the BC Liberal leadership race IT SHOULD COME as no surprise that, when politicians get together, [Continue]

ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Key civic by-election issue is about the money

September 23, 2017 // 2 Comments

THE KAMLOOPS civic by-election is a week away, and it’s coming down to money. Public money, that is. Tax money. The poster child, er, building, is the deceased Kamloops [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Answer to the question, ‘Do politicians have feelings?’

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

TWENTY-SEVEN residents of Kamloops are heading for a whole lot of hurt. For 24 of them, it will hit them hard on Saturday night, Sept. 30. That’s when they’ll receive [Continue]