ROTHENBURGER – City needs bylaw to make teens leave home sooner
MOST DAYS, I’m certain that the power of the press is much over-rated. The media get way too much credit for influencing what people think. For that reason, I try not to [Continue]
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ROTHENBURGER – In the end, we’re all just roadkill on the highway of life
THERE WAS a marmot on the road one day as my son and I were driving home from town. It lay there in a small pool of blood, it’s little buck teeth sticking out, its eyes [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – City council – throw the bums out, or steady as she goes?
CITY COUNCILS come in cycles, and Kamloops is about to start a new one. Those cycles consist of long stretches of stability followed by dramatic change. The current stability [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Suck it up and say goodbye to door-to-door mail delivery
A FEW YEARS ago I interviewed a postie about mail service. I told her that when I was a kid, a fresh bottle of milk appeared on our front step every morning. In cold weather, [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Prof. Rothenburger’s intro to By-Elections 101, a pre-requisite
(With apologies to The Paper Chase) GOOD MORNING, class. Welcome to By-Elections 101. You come here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a politician or, at [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Minority and coalition governments aren’t new in B.C., and they don’t work
IT FEELS as though B.C. is entering brand new political territory, but this won’t be the first time the province has been governed by a minority government. And if we end [Continue]
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