Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – City council – throw the bums out, or steady as she goes?

June 3, 2017 // 4 Comments

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

May 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

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

May 20, 2017 // 2 Comments

(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

May 13, 2017 // 1 Comment

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]

ROTHENBURGER – How the Greens will win Kamloops for the BC Liberals

May 6, 2017 // 9 Comments

WOULD YOU like to know who’s going to win the election? Of course you would, so I’ll tell you. The pollsters are calling it a horse race, too close to call. “It’s [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – If we’re going to insult politicians with nicknames, let’s at least make them good ones

April 29, 2017 // 2 Comments

MAYBE IT’S election fatigue and I’m just feeling grouchy, but could someone clue me in on what’s so funny about calling the premier of our province “Krusty” [Continue]