Kamloops City council

EDITORIAL – New rules for public inquiries better than nothing but…

March 12, 2025 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE NEW FORMAT for public inquiries at Kamloops City council meetings is better than nothing but the council shouldn’t be patting itself [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Pettiness continues around the City council horseshoe

March 4, 2025 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE PETTINESS around the Kamloops City council horseshoe knows, it seems, no bounds. When the council meets today (March 4, 2025) for its [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – What all of Kamloops was talking about in 1975

January 31, 2025 // 0 Comments

Ever wonder what Kamloopsians were talking about in 1975? The following Mel Rothenburger column was published in The Kamloops News on Jan. 30, 1976. Some of those mentioned [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Conflict of interest issue is about both reality and perception

January 30, 2025 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CONFLICT OF INTEREST is in the news again, this time involving donations to three Kamloops City councillors by individuals associated with a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Secret tape ‘didn’t work out the way I had planned’

January 18, 2025 // 12 Comments

WHEN COUN. BILL SARAI secretly taped an argument with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson in January 2023, he didn’t know the tape would be subject to a Freedom of Information [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Public inquiries may yet be saved, but it sure ain’t simple

January 15, 2025 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE GOOD NEWS IS, public enquiries at Kamloops City council meetings aren’t quite dead. But, goodness, given a choice of keeping things [Continue]