Kamloops City council

EDITORIAL – Shhh, you may not talk at committee of the whole meetings

November 29, 2023 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE TAX INCREASE was on the agenda for discussion at a City council committee-of-the-whole meeting yesterday. But if you’d been hoping to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Councillors keep trying to legislate each other’s behaviour

November 22, 2023 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE TALE OF THE TAPE came to its conclusion yesterday as Kamloops City council approved a new policy prohibiting its members from recording [Continue]

WALSH – Has fiscal responsibility gone out of style at the City council table?

November 11, 2023 // 9 Comments

IF YOU OWNED a piece of land you weren’t using, would you sell it at a 75 per cent discount so your neighbour could add it to their property, then subdivide for profit? Our [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – City councillors are at it again with their latest media release

November 10, 2023 // 4 Comments

By BRONWEN SCOTT Guest Columnist OUR CITY COUNCILLORS seem to be at it again. The councillors announced in a media release Nov. 9 that they will hold a future closed meeting [Continue]

PETERS – Strategic Plan the key to a productive term for this council

October 21, 2023 // 1 Comment

IF YOU’VE EVER WORKED in a fractious workplace with a coworker or two you can’t stand, you know there’s only one tried and true way to keep your sanity — and that’s [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: If you liked council’s first year, just imagine the next three

October 14, 2023 // 3 Comments

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, it’s been a year since the civic election. On Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, voters went to the polls and made their choices for who would run Kamloops for the [Continue]