Rothenburger

EDITORIAL – What did the CSO arbitration cost Kamloops taxpayers?

April 10, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger IT WAS GOOD NEWS when the City announced that all the problems have been ironed out with the Canadian Union of Public Employees over the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A surprise piece of mail reopens the debate on mayor’s conduct

April 6, 2024 // 15 Comments

THINGS SOMETIMES arrive in unexpected ways. Take the Integrity Group report on an investigation into Mayor Reid-Hamer Jackson’s conduct at City Hall, for example. The [Continue]

EDITOR – Tax exemptions for developers won’t solve housing crunch

April 4, 2024 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DEVELOPMENT COST CHARGES don’t make for exciting reading. In fact, a lot of people probably don’t even know what they are, but they go [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Please, let’s let the Byron McCorkell episode go away now

April 3, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BYRON McCORKELL affair is over. Let it stay that way. Acting CAO McCorkell was suspended from his job, then he was re-instated. Let it [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why I won’t be in any convoys protesting the carbon tax

March 30, 2024 // 6 Comments

THE CARBON TAX hasn’t changed my life. I don’t drive less because of it. Yet, I support this tax because I’m an environmentalist at heart and worry about climate [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How the handling of the McCorkell suspension was botched

March 29, 2024 // 8 Comments

I’M STILL PERPLEXED about a few things surrounding the Byron McCorkell saga. Last evening’s announcement by councillors that they had, by a vote of 8-0, re-instated [Continue]