Rothenburger

OPEN LETTER – A challenge to Fair Vote Kamloops on the prop rep referendum

October 12, 2018 // 5 Comments

AN OPEN LETTER TO FAIR VOTE KAMLOOPS: The upcoming referendum on electoral change is one of the most important decisions British Columbians will make for a long time to come. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Give amnesty to those with old pot possession convictions

October 11, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE FIRST TIME I HEARD about the movement to wipe the record clean for people convicted of old charges of marijuana possession I thought, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – ‘ Our kids are more important than potholes’

October 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT WAS AN ENCOURAGING turnout at Tuesday night’s school board election forum. That is, if you consider 50 or 60 people out of a population [Continue]

EDITORIAL – It will be a sad day when we have to pay people to vote

October 9, 2018 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SPECULATION CONTINUES that the turnout for this civic election will be somewhere between lousy and dismal. Kamloops council candidate Gerald [Continue]

ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Don’t be fooled by the hocus pocus of prop rep math

October 6, 2018 // 11 Comments

THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS wrong with the referendum on proportional representation, it would take as long to cover it all as it would to explain the convoluted and foggy [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Why Good Samaritans are an endangered breed

October 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

This column was originally posed on Oct. 1, 2010. IF YOU SAW SOMEONE in obvious distress, would you stop to help? Or would you pass by? Many people would stop. Most [Continue]