Armchair Mayor

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]

ROTHENBURGER – Go hard on graffiti vandals, be soft with panhandlers

September 9, 2017 // 8 Comments

WHEN WE’RE making laws, we should think about the consequences and roots of illegal acts before we get all sanctimonious. Laws are created to control behavior, and some [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Kamloops Daily News building had more years to give

September 2, 2017 // 9 Comments

I WATCHED the demolition work at the old Kamloops Daily News building for a couple of minutes the other day. The sign says “Daily News Site – Demolition.” It should [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Dave Gracey was a man who made a big difference

August 28, 2017 // 7 Comments

A LOT OF Dave Gracey’s friends are hoping he’ll put up a post on his Facebook page that news of his death is greatly exaggerated, apologizing for the joke, or saying he [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Has everyone caught a case of by-election fever?

August 26, 2017 // 2 Comments

HAS KAMLOOPS gone mad with civic fervor, or fever, as the case may be? The City puts out a call for applications for a few temporary jobs and gets swamped with people [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Convention centre, marketing southwest area nothing new

August 24, 2017 // 5 Comments

SOMETIMES OLD IDEAS become new again. Sometimes that’s a good thing, sometimes not so much. The idea of a Kamloops convention centre has raised its head. So has the idea of [Continue]