Rothenburger

EDITORIAL – Why should flying a flag at City Hall need to involve lawyers?

October 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT SAD TIMES we live in when flying flags and hanging banners becomes a Charter of Rights and Freedoms issue. Without a word of [Continue]

JOURNALISM – ‘We’re in deep shit’ says veteran broadcaster Keith Morrison

October 30, 2018 // 2 Comments

“We’re in deep shit, folks, we really are.” That’s how veteran Canadian-born broadcaster Keith Morrison assessed the state of journalism as he addressed the annual [Continue]

EDITORIAL – There’s nothing hypocritical about enviros using planes

October 30, 2018 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HERE’S SOMETHING that really bugs me about all the rhetoric around the future of the planet. How often do we hear the climate-change [Continue]

EDITORIAL – ‘Free wall’ for street art won’t curb graffiti vandalism

October 29, 2018 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IS KAMLOOPS SETTING itself up for a new graffiti war? Looks like a retaining wall between Seymour Street West and Victoria Street West is [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Maybe Kamloops should leave arts and culture to Vernon

October 27, 2018 // 6 Comments

VERNON HAS SHOWN Kamloops how it’s done. Again. Last Saturday, Vernon residents voted to build themselves a $40-million multi-purpose cultural facility downtown. Of that, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We can’t let everybody else decide the referendum

October 25, 2018 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. OUR REFERENDUM BALLOTS are in the mail, and God and Canada Post willing, they should arrive in our mailboxes any day if they haven’t [Continue]