PETERS – What qualities do you want to see in our next mayor?
WE HAVE A COUPLE OF OPTIONS out there, so let’s talk about it: who do we want to be the next mayor of Kamloops? By October when this term ends, Ken Christian will have [Continue]
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MEL’S NOTES – Jab #2, the homeowner grant, and tailgating on the TC
Armchair Mayor column in the works for tomorrow on Rick Eldridge, the popular security guard who lost his job over a videotaped scuffle with a street person on Victoria [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Arjun Singh’s valiant, short-lived plan to get something done
THERE ARE ALWAYS GOOD REASONS not to do something. Coun. Arjun Singh heard a lot about that this week. Singh put together a notice of motion asking City staff to look into [Continue]
FORSETH – Wherever we live, isn’t one Kent State enough for a lifetime?
YESTERDAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, I posted a story from Kamloops This Week, in which Kamloops City Councillor Arjun Singh was quoted. According to the story, Singh criticized U.S. [Continue]
KNOX – Honeymooners in India scrambled to get home to Canada
THEY’RE NOT A STEREOTYPICAL COUPLE, so it stands to reason that they wouldn’t have a stereotypical honeymoon. Archdeacon Alastair McCollum is the English-born, [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – City council’s toughest choice – green or growth
SELDOM HAS AN ISSUE been so starkly defined within the walls of Kamloops City Hall as during council’s climate change debate. And never before have we heard Coun. Arjun [Continue]
EDITORIAL – UBCM delegates should boycott Chinese gov’t’s hospitality
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE UNION OF B.C. MUNICIPALITIES is under fire from some of its own members this week over a reception put on for delegates to its annual [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Flag debate – making the world a more complicated place
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]
McQUARRIE – Are politicians at any level working for the public?
AM I BEING an irrational cynic when I say that with few exceptions, I can’t think of a politician, at any level of government, that I trust or know with certainty they [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Are those overseas trips really just paid vacations for politicians?
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger WHETHER IT’S provincial and federal politicians on trade missions, or City councillors teaching overseas countries [Continue]
PETERS – Creative media discussion positive, but well of ideas drying up
COUNCILLOR ARJUN SINGH weighed in on the state of local media in Kamloops This Week this week, and of course, like everyone, we’re more than happy to hear ideas on how [Continue]
McQUARRIE – We need to change our thinking on the war on drugs
LET’S TALK about crime, drugs, shootings, sex and Kamloops. Actually, forget the sex part as I just tossed that into the mix to get your attention. You see, we had [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Some thoughts about the good job done by the interim mayor
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A NEW MAYOR and two new Kamloops City councillors were sworn into office at a small invitation-only ceremony last night and [Continue]
CITY COUNCIL – Singh steps in for ‘audition’ as mayor; Spina to resign
Coun. Arjun Singh has stepped into the mayor’s chair, but for how long? Peter Milobar, now that he’s an MLA-elect, tried to clarify in a letter to City council today May [Continue]
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