Editorials

EDITORIAL – Robinson’s exit a necessary cruelty in the business of politics

February 8, 2024 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. POLITICS IS A CRUEL business. You can be in it for all the right reasons. Serve your constituents well for many years. Achieve positive [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Let’s cheer for TRU to ignore council’s ultimatum on overpass

February 7, 2024 // 21 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HARDBALL WAS THE NAME of the game at Tuesday’s City council meeting as council members lambasted TRU over the proposed $10-million [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City-TNRD team approach to PAC challenging but worth exploring

February 6, 2024 // 8 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WITH THE ARTS CENTRE back for discussion, the City, at the prompting of Coun. Dale Bass, wants to talk to the regional district about [Continue]

EDITORIAL – What should Kamloops build as a really ‘iconic structure’?

February 5, 2024 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TOURISM KAMLOOPS wants to build an “iconic structure” for Kamloops. It just doesn’t know what it will be yet. Or where it will go. But [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Let’s go back to naming schools after people instead of places

February 1, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. KAMLOOPS WILL GET a new school a couple of years from now and School District 73 officials are inviting the public to propose names for it. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Coroner is wrong; we shouldn’t live with public drug use

January 31, 2024 // 17 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BC CORONER LISA LAPOINTE effectively though unintentionally articulates pretty much everything that’s wrong with allowing the consumption [Continue]