Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Council should just say no to Ajax, minus ifs, ands or buts

July 15, 2017 // 7 Comments

KAMLOOPS City council has a big decision to make Monday, and it’s not as cut and dried as it seems. True, the council will vote no on Ajax, because at least four out of the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Proof of God’s existence is on the streets of Kamloops

July 8, 2017 // 5 Comments

ALL MY LIFE, I’ve been skeptical about the existence of a supreme being. I was raised an atheist, but drifted toward agnosticism quite some time ago. I dabbled in studying [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – I forgive you, my big, beautiful, wonderful Canada

July 1, 2017 // 4 Comments

CANADA, you’re not everything I’d like you to be. You’re flawed. Like an uncertain child, you stumble from time to time. You make poor choices now and then, but I’m [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Goodbye, Sears – mourning the end of the Wish Book era

June 24, 2017 // 1 Comment

THIS THING with Sears marks the end of an era, and the ending of eras is almost always sad. Fifty-nine stores closing, 2,900 jobs lost. It’s called [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – City needs bylaw to make teens leave home sooner

June 17, 2017 // 2 Comments

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]

ROTHENBURGER – In the end, we’re all just roadkill on the highway of life

June 10, 2017 // 1 Comment

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]