Rothenburger

EDITORIAL – City Hall agenda debate Part 2 – Politics is not nine to five

June 29, 2018 // 3 Comments

CIVIC POLITICS is not a nine-to-five job either for elected representatives or for the people who work for them. They know that, but they struggled with it this week. In Part [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The time has come to be proud of all things Canadian

June 29, 2018 // 1 Comment

As mayor I wrote a column called City Hallways. Here’s the one published in 2004 on the occasion of Canada Day. IT WAS ANOTHER great Canada Day in Kamloops. With your [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City taxpayers shouldn’t pay for TRU’s pedestrian overpass

June 28, 2018 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I CAN’T THINK of a worse place to spend a few million dollars worth of City taxpayers’ money than building a pedestrian overpass across [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Flag debate – making the world a more complicated place

June 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S TRUE THE WORLD is more complicated than it used to be but that’s because we make it that way. In the old days, a community group [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Public might have to be more involved in collecting sharps

June 26, 2018 // 8 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BY ALL ACCOUNTS, things are getting worse instead of better in the fight to clean up dirty needles in Kamloops. While back allies are a [Continue]

EDITORIAL: Who’s in charge at City Hall: council or staff?

June 25, 2018 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S A QUESTION often asked by taxpayers but not nearly often enough by politicians — who’s in charge, the people we elect or the [Continue]