City of Kamloops

BEPPLE – Kamloops zoning bylaws encourage waste of housing space

July 24, 2019 // 4 Comments

EVERY DAY, there’s another story on affordable housing. There was the report this week that a worker in Vancouver needs to earn $35/hour to afford the rent of an average [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Life in a small town can get a bit silly at times

June 15, 2019 // 3 Comments

LIFE IN A SMALL TOWN can get kind of silly, sometimes, can’t it? By small town, I mean, of course, small in the best sense of the word, a place where you can walk down the [Continue]

LETTER – City’s shift in tax burden from industry to homeowners is unfair

May 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

May 10, 2019 RE: Industrial Tax Rate Discussion Dear Kamloops Mayor and Council: The Kamloops Voters Society (KVS) is concerned with the City’s on-going plan to alter [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Drivers are behaving badly in Victoria St. West construction zone

April 18, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. If YOU HAVEN’T HAD the dubious pleasure of running the Victoria Street West gauntlet during rush hour this week, here’s a tip — keep [Continue]

PETERS – Our biosolids, our business – we should all be concerned about it

April 6, 2019 // 1 Comment

HUMANS HAVE NEVER BEEN especially good at dealing with our waste. We like to do silly things with our garbage like toss it out the window of our cars for someone else to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – How much money is being wasted on Victoria Street West project?

March 12, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GET READY TO PRACTICE your zipper merge. Remember 2015, when the Overlanders Bridge was being rehabilitated and we spent eight months [Continue]