Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: An easy way to test life in the slow lane on Seymour Street
KAMLOOPS - THERE'S AN EASY WAY to help sort out the one-way street issue.There many obvious advantages to returning Seymour Street to two-way traffic but one that makes some people hesitate - speed. T...
Sep 05, 2019 Image Credit: Contributed
ROTHENBURGER: School is back, be ready for another teachers’ strike
SCHOOL IS BACK IN and the busy days of September are underway as parents engage in the morning hustle of getting their kids off to class.Looming in the background is another round of contract talks be...
Sep 04, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Gas-price report provides a few answers but no solutions
KAMLOOPS - IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE not to notice that gas prices in Kamloops jumped by a dime just in time for the Labour Day long weekend. According to past wisdom, it was a coincidence.Or was it? The clos...
Sep 03, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Three keys to the election in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo
VETERAN BROADCAST JOURNALIST-turned website scribe Bob Price called to ask me who's going to win Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo in October. He was putting together a look-ahead story for The Orca, the onli...
Aug 31, 2019 (Image Credit: Facebook / Cathy McLeod, Terry Lake)
PETERS: Alex Trebek, and why simple facts are in jeopardy
WHEN I WAS QUITE YOUNG, I loved watching the TV show Jeopardy!I remember rushing from school over to my grandparents' place a block away so I could watch Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! at my grandmoth...
Aug 30, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Parties unveil campaign slogans, voters need one too
KAMLOOPS - "MOVING FORWARD" is, without doubt, the most hackneyed phrase in politics. Every politician utters it at least a dozen times a day.It should be no surprise, then, that politicians can think...
Aug 29, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Shame on Equestrian Canada for not letting Kyra compete
Image Credit: Jim BradburyKAMLOOPS - A BUREAUCRAT is commonly defined as an official who is -as the Oxford dictionary says - "perceived as being concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of...
Aug 28, 2019 Image Credit: Jim Bradbury
ROTHENBURGER: City’s latest video sounds like partisan plug for council
IT'S STILL EARLY IN THE WEEK and everybody has a right to feel a bit crabby early in the week so here's my beef for the day.I happened to come across the latest video from City Hall as I was browsing,...
Aug 27, 2019 Image Credit: City of Kamloops
GINTA: Climate change is everybody's problem
The fact that there are still people who debate whether the environmental (and social) phenomena collectively known as climate change is caused by human activity is, to put it mildly, a head scratcher...
Aug 26, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
ROTHENBURGER: Pride parade was a truly heart-warming community event
KAMLOOPS - A FEW COMMENTS about yesterday's annual Kamloops Pride Parade.Most importantly, it was a true community event. Corporations, unions, social agencies and a number of politicians were there a...
Aug 25, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
