Reid Hamer-Jackson

EDITORIAL – Is the mayor of Kamloops suddenly only allowed to work 9 to 5?

April 21, 2024 // 11 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. UPDATE (Sunday afternoon): Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson phoned back to say he’d found an email notifying him and councillors that access [Continue]

EDITORIAL – How to turn an interview with the mayor into a total gong show

April 14, 2024 // 12 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SOME PEOPLE should never be in the same room together. In the case of Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson and CHNL’s afternoon talker Brett Mineer, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A surprise piece of mail reopens the debate on mayor’s conduct

April 6, 2024 // 15 Comments

THINGS SOMETIMES arrive in unexpected ways. Take the Integrity Group report on an investigation into Mayor Reid-Hamer Jackson’s conduct at City Hall, for example. The [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Please, let’s let the Byron McCorkell episode go away now

April 3, 2024 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BYRON McCORKELL affair is over. Let it stay that way. Acting CAO McCorkell was suspended from his job, then he was re-instated. Let it [Continue]

LETTER – Not surprising McCorkell’s suspension was overturned but…

March 30, 2024 // 9 Comments

It’s not surprising that Kamloops City councillors overturned the mayor’s suspension of acting CAO Byron McCorkell but it’s unfortunate. It also leaves one wondering if [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How the handling of the McCorkell suspension was botched

March 29, 2024 // 8 Comments

I’M STILL PERPLEXED about a few things surrounding the Byron McCorkell saga. Last evening’s announcement by councillors that they had, by a vote of 8-0, re-instated [Continue]