Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Media have lost all objectivity in reporting on Trump

August 19, 2017 // 7 Comments

ALMOST EVERYTHING Donald Trump says and does is so utterly loathsome to me that I fear I’ve lost all sense of objectivity about the man. And that is clearly what has [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Getting more comfortable with death

August 12, 2017 // 6 Comments

DEATH HAS been much on my mind this week. Not just the fact that it’s the end of life, but what it’s really all about. You’d think we’d be more at ease with something [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Is the end of summer on the horizon, or the end of days?

August 5, 2017 // 5 Comments

IS THE END of summer on the horizon, or the end of days? It feels more like the latter. We’ve come to commonly apply the term “Apocalypse” to wildfire season. A sense [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – If only we were this kind to animals all the time

July 29, 2017 // 1 Comment

ONE OF THE most popular places to volunteer during this wildfire summer is — any place with animals. Some days, the agencies that look after evacuated pets have more offers [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why machine politics wins election campaigns

July 22, 2017 // 2 Comments

THE BY-ELECTION for mayor got more interesting Friday, but the outcome more predictable. Dr. Cindy Ross-Friedman, one of the declared mayoralty candidates, sent around a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Five plus one oppose Ajax – council’s position now clear

July 17, 2017 // 9 Comments

THERE’S NOW no question that the City of Kamloops is officially opposed to Ajax. Had the vote been held three weeks ago, it would have been 6-1 against the mine. As it [Continue]