Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Noble Creek irrigation users should jump at City’s offer
NOBLE CREEK IRRIGATION system users should jump at the City's offer to pay part of the cost of getting it in shape.The old system near Dairy Road and Westsyde Road has been a thorn in the side of City...
Nov 02, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: The Armchair strikes back on Columbia West housing
'SO PRAY TELL US MEL, what neighbourhood would be good for social housing? Let me guess... the North Shore right?"That's what Gail Paton thought of my editorial this week in which I contended that the...
Oct 31, 2020
PETERS: Does it matter whether masks are 'expected' or 'required'?
THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION this week after the City of Kamloops released its statement regarding masks in city buildings.The news release said masks would be "expected" in all public facilities operated...
Oct 30, 2020
CHARBONNEAU: I was wrong about the Site C dam
DESPITE WHAT I SAID EARLIER, Site C is a mistake. The massive dam is being built in the Peace River region of northeastern British Columbia.Dams are not a mistake. Hydroelectricity has made B.C. the e...
Oct 29, 2020
ROTHENBURGER – Among all the bad news, some good news is worth celebrating
KAMLOOOPS - THERE'S SO MUCH bad news going around these days that it's a pleasant surprise indeed to read about something really positive. It's even better when it involves a government program that a...
Oct 29, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Now is the time for regulation, not expectation on masks
KAMLOOPS - THE 'EXPECTION' THAT MASKS will be worn in all indoor public places is worth about as much as a pumpkin spice latte if you throw in five bucks.Dr. Bonnie Henry still can't bring herself to ...
Oct 28, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Columbia Street West is no place for social housing
KAMLOOPS - WE OFTEN LIKE TO REFER to street people, the addicted and the down-and-out as mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, aunts and uncles.It's our way of being respectful, of recognizing that they'...
Oct 27, 2020
GINTA: Doing the right thing for the community counts more than ever
THE WEEKDAY 3:00 P.M. UPDATE ON COVID-19 is this weird event that we all dread and yet cannot wait to hear. We are all hoping to see that curve take a downturn or at least flatten rather than hear abo...
Oct 26, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Whither goes Kamloops with Opposition reps in Victoria?
IT'S ALL OVER but the final counting.It will be a couple of weeks until the mail-in ballots are counted but it won't matter much. Ridings like Kamloops-North Thompson and Fraser-Nicola are close but n...
Oct 26, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Protests and arrests were played out in a familiar script
THE DRAMA THAT PLAYED OUT at Trans Mountain work sites in Kamloops the past week and a half could have been written in advance. Same plot, same story line, same pictures as we've seen so many times be...
Oct 24, 2020
