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We have a “tradition” in our family of going to the theatre to see a movie on New Year’s Day (there’s some disagreement over whether the tradition is [Continue]

This morning, reporter Michele Young came into my office chuckling about how we narrowly escaped a tiny disaster in today’s edition. She filed a story yesterday on a [Continue]

Today, Christmas Day, I celebrate with family the way I’ve done all my life. I don’t believe in the divinity  of Jesus Christ. I believe he was a special, [Continue]

Bob Egby, on December 24th, 2008 at 1:08 pm  Hello Mel: Glad to see you’re still stirring the pot and running a damned good newspaper. You must have one super-sized wall [Continue]

A look at some of the blogs today would suggest Nancy Greene is a controversial choice for the Senate. This surprises me — I can’t think of anyone better qualified. [Continue]

As I listen to the debate on national radio and TV, and read letters to the editor in The Daily News and other papers, I am truly amazed at how emotion takes over from common [Continue]

Well, OK, not quite. But here’s the thing. When I submitted my predictions to the office pool, I wrote down actual vote counts for the mayoral election. Here’s [Continue]

I’m looking forward to receiving the results of a Mustel Group poll for release tomorrow on the local federal race in Kamloops Thompson Cariboo. Once again The Daily [Continue]

Column for publication in The Kamloops Daily News, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008 Move over, Barry Baker, Chad Moats, Gregg Drinnan and Brian Alexander. Eat your heart out, Arjun [Continue]

It’s getting so I’m afraid to look in the mailbox — you never know what you’ll find in there. Last night, on my way home, I approached our rural mailbox [Continue]