EDITORIAL – ‘ Our kids are more important than potholes’
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]
Rothenburger
EDITORIAL – It will be a sad day when we have to pay people to vote
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
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
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]
EDITORIAL – What about a Kamloops arts and convention centre?
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY are doomed to repeat it. How many times have we heard that? It came to mind when I heard Tourism Kamloops CEO [Continue]
EDITORIAL – The new international trade agreement – wines and whines
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE CANADIANS have a lot of excellent traits. Honestly, though, we can be such whiners at times. Led by the media, we’ve been whining away [Continue]
ArmchairMayor.ca 