Rothenburger

EDITORIAL – Everybody should be happy with Wilson-Raybould firing

April 3, 2019 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. NO MATTER WHAT YOUR POLITICS, you’ve got to be pleased Justin Trudeau booted Jody Wilson-Raybould out of the Liberal caucus. If you’re a [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Pointless removal of Land Title records needs to be stopped

April 2, 2019 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SOMETIMES GOVERNMENTS do things for strange reasons. Sometimes they do things for no reason at all. Moving records from the Land Titles [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New Zealand’s fast action on gun control won’t be repeated here

March 31, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. NEW ZEALAND PRIME MINISTER Jacinda Ardern is being hailed as a hero for her fast action in restricting firearms in the wake of the [Continue]

TNRD – Finding a better way to record votes by the board of directors

March 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD People sometimes ask me how the TNRD board voted on a certain issue. While I can always tell them whether something was [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Plastic bags – remember the shoe commercial

March 30, 2019 // 5 Comments

THERE’S A SLOGAN in a running-shoe commercial that says, “Just do it.” Kamloops City councillors should remember it when they talk about banning plastic bags. A notice [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The stuff the school board talks about in secret

March 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

This column was originally published in the Kamloops News on March 1, 1978: THIS WEEK WAS THE FIRST in which local news media received in advance the background [Continue]