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EDITORIAL – Just for you, a straight-forward explanation of tax deadlines

May 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

YOU’VE BEEN HAVING TROUBLE figuring out the new City of Kamloops tax-payment deadlines, right? You’re not alone; the city has tried to explain it several times and [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s time Kamloops got a larger public gallery in its city hall

September 11, 2019 // 1 Comment

AS WE LAUNCH into the 43rd election for the federal government, we shouldn’t forget that democracy is not just about the day we vote for who we want in power. It’s also [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Once upon a time there was a plan for a new City Hall

January 17, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LET ME TELL YOU a story. Fifteen years ago, a committee of City council was formed to identify possible sites for a new City Hall. It was [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Getting the cold shoulder from City Hall

September 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

LOOKING BACK at past columns and thinking about trends in the comments, messages and emails, I’ve noticed how a number of them seem to come down to issues of accountability [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Will party politics make a return to Kamloops City Hall?

July 30, 2018 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IS IT TIME to party — so to speak — in Kamloops City Hall? What brings the question to mind in a round-about way is Ontario Premier Doug [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Some things we’ll be hearing from candidates in election

July 24, 2018 // 2 Comments

A QUESTION I’m often asked these days is whether or not I’m again running for mayor or perhaps City councillor. Well, if last year’s by-election taught me anything, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Public inquiries at council meetings are good entertainment

July 10, 2018 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF YOUR SCHEDULE doesn’t allow you the time to take in Music in the Park or other local entertainment, the Public Inquiries section of [Continue]

PETERS – Logic of City Hall restructuring not immediately apparent

March 5, 2018 // 1 Comment

AND THEN there were four. City of Kamloops CAO David Trawin announced last week there would only be four senior managers reporting to him instead of five after David [Continue]

CITY HALL – Corporate services director David Duckworth moving to Calgary

January 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

The City of Kamloops will lose one of its top administrators when David Duckworth leaves for a new job in Calgary. The corporate services and community safety director will [Continue]

McQUARRIE – T’was the night before Christmas and all through City Hall

December 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

WITH MY APOLOGIES to Clement Clarke Moore, I give you my Kamloops version of his poem, The Night Before Christmas. And what better way to take you to Christmas Eve in [Continue]

BY-ELECTION: Candidate Nicholas Adams: a love of community service

September 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Candidates in the Sept. 30 Kamloops civic by-election are invited to make submissions to ArmchairMayor.ca on their platforms, biographical information, contact information or [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Answer to the question, ‘Do politicians have feelings?’

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

TWENTY-SEVEN residents of Kamloops are heading for a whole lot of hurt. For 24 of them, it will hit them hard on Saturday night, Sept. 30. That’s when they’ll receive [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Civic by-election quickly shaping up to be an interesting race

June 1, 2017 // 3 Comments

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO THE RACE is on. Coun. Marg Spina has given written notice of her resignation, Peter Milobar will do likewise with his [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – By-election to fill the mayor’s chair is just crazy talk

December 3, 2016 // 4 Comments

EXCUSE the locker-room talk but this idea of holding a mayoral by-election is just nuts. Here’s how the chain of events plays out, in simplified form. When the writ is [Continue]