City of Kamloops

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]

ROTHENBURGER – The big difference between listening and empowering

February 9, 2019 // 2 Comments

ENGAGEMENT, CONSULTATION AND TRANSPARENCY are big words in governments of all levels right now. Issues like pipeline expansion, electoral reform and First Nations rights come [Continue]

BEPPLE – Open house on secondary suites showed positive side of politics

February 6, 2019 // 2 Comments

SOMETIMES IT’S HARD not to become jaded and pessimistic about politics. After the last two years of watching President Trump lead the U.S. into more and more chaos, [Continue]