Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: How easy it is to spend taxpayers’ money and delay decisions
KAMLOOPS - IN POLITICS, IT'S SO VERY EASY to put things off, and so easy to spend taxpayers' money. A couple of unrelated items caught my eye during Tuesday's City council meeting. One of them was a p...
Mar 27, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Charging a user fee at boat launches makes perfect sense
THE ICE IS MOSTLY OFF our rivers and the thoughts of boaters are turning to sunny days out on the water. Should they pay for the privilege? Charging boaters for using City-maintained launch sites make...
Mar 26, 2019
GINTA: For the love of trees
DID YOU KNOW that March 21st is the International Day of Forests? It was established back in 2012 by the United Nations General Assembly. Not many people know that because it is not highly publicized;...
Mar 25, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Chamber has serious egg on its face over hiring controversy
KAMLOOPS - THE KAMLOOPS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE is one of the most respected business organizations in the country. It has a reputation for innovation and leadership - many of its ideas have been adopted ...
Mar 25, 2019
NEUSTAETER: One Week or Two – the Great Spring Break Debate Lives On
Right now School Districts 73 and 54 are the only school districts in the province of British Columbia that have a one week Spring Break. The length of Spring Break has been an ongoing and contentious...
Mar 24, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: What, exactly, is this ‘middle class’ everyone’s talking about?
WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE CLASS. Come on in. It's a pretty big tent, this middle class, but our government - pick one; doesn't matter which government - is there for us. In recent years, governments at al...
Mar 23, 2019
PETERS: Parents should be wary of Fraser Institute's school ranking system
THE FRASER INSTITUTE’S annual rankings of BC elementary schools was released earlier this month, and Kamloops schools didn’t do so hot. Nearly 1,000 B.C. schools are rated by the right win...
Mar 22, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: A renewed call for a study of traffic safety on Westsyde Road
KAMLOOPS - THE REOPENING OF Westsyde elementary in September could have benefits that go beyond education. One of the concerns raised by parents when the Kamloops school board was considering the issu...
Mar 21, 2019
CHARBONNEAU: We've evolved to move
HERMAN PONTZER’S DISCOVERY defied common sense. He found that exercise doesn't result in weight loss, Defying logic, upsetting the plans of many to lose weight through exercise, and threatening ...
Mar 20, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: All the noise in Ottawa drowns out substance of 2019 budget
KAMLOOPS - IS THERE SOME SORT of contest going on in Ottawa over which party can make us more disgusted with politics? There must be, judging by yesterday's Kindergarten-level scrapping in the halls o...
Mar 20, 2019
