City Hall

LETTER – Power struggle going on in Kamloops City Hall is obvious

May 4, 2024 // 7 Comments

Only days ago I read in this space, “Acting CAO Byron McCorkell and civic operations director Jen Fretz had said banning access by council members after hours was necessary [Continue]

CITY HALL – The mayor of Kamloops gets his office back

May 2, 2024 // 4 Comments

Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson can once again work in his City Hall office whenever he wants. The mayor confirmed today (May 2, 2024) that he has been given round-the-clock access [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A short visit to SILGA in quest of the ‘bullying’ resolution

May 1, 2024 // 8 Comments

RESOLUTION 39 would be kind of funny if it wasn’t so sad. The resolution, titled ‘Bullying and harassment by local elected officials’ was debated today (May 1, 2024) at [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How governments self-promote instead of inform

April 27, 2024 // 5 Comments

ARE OUR PUBLIC BODIES in the information business, or the propaganda business? The answer might seem obvious but their way of going about it can be annoying. Every time one [Continue]

CITY HALL – Police called in to look into ‘unpleasant’ bag of something

April 21, 2024 // 2 Comments

Some might say a lot of you-know-what comes out of City Hall but somebody apparently turned the tables and delivered some of it back. Persons unknown entered the building and [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Is the mayor of Kamloops suddenly only allowed to work 9 to 5?

April 21, 2024 // 11 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. UPDATE (Sunday afternoon): Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson phoned back to say he’d found an email notifying him and councillors that access [Continue]