Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: When municipal politicians think they’re worth more than they are
HOW MUCH IS a municipal politician worth?A common answer among taxpayers is likely to be, less than they're getting.It's a serious question, though, and a challenging one. Councils have the unenviable...
Jan 25, 2020 Image: Revelstoke council votes on its pay raise (City of Revelstoke)
PETERS: Needle cleanup in Kamloops is still more complicated than it needs to be
KARI RUBEL DIDN'T KNOW WHO TO CALL.The program director for People in Motion had just found a bunch of used needles in front of the agency's office on Tranquille Road. The needles had been left among ...
Jan 24, 2020 Image Credit: Contributed / Kari Rubel
CHARBONNEAU: Look to the sea for the internet, not the clouds
OUR CONNECTION TO THE INTERNET seems so ethereal - it's as though data materializes out of thin air. This illusion is a result of the final hop of our connection to the internet.I find the illusion co...
Jan 23, 2020 Image Credit: Burgstedt / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: PAC opponents, come out, come out, wherever you are
KAMLOOPS - IN CASE YOU WERE wondering if anybody was going to form an opposition to the performing arts centre, there is one.Well, sort of. A Facebook page called No PAC Kamloops has emerged, but whoe...
Jan 23, 2020 Image supplied
ROTHENBURGER: Loosening reins on committee meetings a good step for council
KAMLOOPS - KAMLOOPS CITY COUNCIL took a tentative step toward greater transparency and engagement Tuesday.At a committee of the whole meeting, council received a report from staff on Mayor Ken Christi...
Jan 22, 2020 City Livestream
ROTHENBURGER: The case for naming a mountain after ‘a white dude’
KAMLOOPS - WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT honouring people who have contributed to the development of the province would become so controversial?A mountain on the edge of Wells Gray Park is in need of a name, and...
Jan 21, 2020 Image Credit: Contributed
GINTA: How about that pub night?
NEWS TRAVELS FAST. The controversial stories even faster, more so when they have a risqu edge. Such was the case of the story hailing from our very own 'small town/big city' as I like to affectionally...
Jan 20, 2020 Image Credit: Facebook / Cactus Jacks Nightclub
ROTHENBURGER: Parking shuffle at RIH raises issue of shortage of spaces
KAMLOOPS - PARKING AT ROYAL INLAND HOSPITAL is going to be a bit of a schmozzle until the end of the month with Clinical Services Building elevators out of commission. But what else is new?At any time...
Jan 20, 2020 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: ‘Just plain evil’ columnist contemplates his fan mail
MY FRIEND Jack Knox, a best-selling author and award-winning newspaper columnist, has a January tradition of collecting some of his favourite insults from among those directed at him by his faithful r...
Jan 18, 2020 (Image from Pixabay.com )
PETERS: With Out of the Cold needing a space, where are the churches?
CHURCHES IN KAMLOOPS, as in most communities in BC, are eligible to be exempt from paying property taxes. In that way, they are in the same category as property belonging to non-profit organizations a...
Jan 17, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
