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ROTHENBURGER – Walk-in clinics and a very ‘chilling’ first week of the year

January 7, 2017 // 2 Comments

I don’t want to hear one more person say, “It’s positively balmy” every time the temperature creeps above minus 20. But there’s nothing like a prolonged period of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Woe is me, whatever will happen to Kamloops City council?

January 4, 2017 // 2 Comments

I DON’T remember when Kamloops City council has been in such a state of functional uncertainty as it is now. There have been times in its history, to be sure, when [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Pearls of wisdom about life and death in 2016

December 31, 2016 // 1 Comment

MOSTLY, 2016 sucked. The weather was awful, politics was a mess, and a lot of good people died. We all look at the past through our own filters. Here are some abbreviated [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Cenotaph vandalism both reprehensible and misguided

December 29, 2016 // 2 Comments

THE GRAFFITI VANDALISM at the Kamloops cenotaph that occurred over the holiday season is disturbing on two fronts. First, the desecration of a revered community monument is [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Kamloops has a history of gutsy female City councillors

December 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. OUR GOVERNMENTS have a shortage of representation from women — that’s nothing new. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Frootloops City council makes its Christmas wish list

December 24, 2016 // 3 Comments

IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE, and the Frootloops Council is holding its AGM in the former Kamloops Daily Snooze building — they have to use it for something, after all — to tidy [Continue]