BEPPLE – Kamloops loves Twitter, but not for electoral reform
I’VE HAD A TWITTER ACCOUNT since 2011. I started using it even more heavily in 2014 when the Kamloops Daily News shut down. I follow politicians and news sources. [Continue]
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ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Tips for making it in journalism
Editor’s Note: I’m a strong believer in the old saying that if it was good enough to publish once, why not publish it again. Therefore I reprise what I’ll call the [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – The new parking lot, the parking fee hike, and Plan B
I SAT in my old office at The Kamloops Daily News yesterday. Or, rather, I sat in my truck in a parking spot where my old office used to be, thinking about George W. Bush. By [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Rushing to build something on KDN property would be a mistake
An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. NOW THAT all hope of saving the Kamloops Daily News building is lost — the contract has been awarded to demolish it and put [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Another heritage building – yes, heritage building – bites the dust
An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SOMEBODY’S got to say it — City council signed the death warrant Tuesday for yet another heritage building. Yes, the [Continue]
CITY HALL – Council moves ahead with KDN teardown for ‘temporary’ parking
City council moved ahead today (April 25, 2017) with plans to tear down the Kamloops Daily News building and “temporarily” put up a parking lot. After hearing from [Continue]
YOU SAY – A great big, half empty parking lot; way to go City council
A sampling of comments about the City’s decision to tear down the Kamloops Daily News building and put in a parking lot. Gail Paton: A great, a big half empty parking [Continue]
COLLINS – This is the best we can do?
The downtown core badly needs something, and a parking lot isn’t exactly visionary on the part of those in City Hall LET ME MAKE SURE I understand. After years of [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Saga of KDN property not as screwed up as it seems
THE SAGA of the Kamloops Daily News building isn’t City Hall’s finest hour. One might get the impression, in fact, that MBA programs won’t be including it in their [Continue]
CITY HALL – Old newspaper property could be a parking lot by this fall
The Kamloops Daily News building and attached land on the corner of 4th and Seymour could be a big parking lot by this fall. A report going to City council on Tuesday says [Continue]
CITY HALL – Hush-hush search for a ‘better idea’ for Kamloops Daily News site comes up empty-handed
A year-long search for a “better idea” for the former Kamloops Daily News site on the corner of Fourth and Seymour will end with the smack of a wrecking ball, if [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Might be time to put up a parking lot on old KDN site
Almost a year after the deadline for proposals on what to do with the old KDN building, there’s still no word on what the City is thinking An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial [Continue]
HARRISON – What’s City have for its $5-million purchase of KDN building?
THE PEOPLE at Glacier Media must have a stack of thank you cards for the city of Kamloops. After all, the City did the former operator of the Kamloops Daily News an enormous [Continue]
A town without a daily newspaper— it’s less about the news, more about the ritual
When Daily News shut, it deprived residents of their regular routine, but not of journalism To read this story in the Ryerson Review of Journalism, click here. By AIMEE [Continue]
