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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]

‘Citizen satisfaction’ among committees

December 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ CITY HALL — The two new City councillors have received some key committee appointments, including one to a new “citizen satisfaction committee.” Those are [Continue]