Category Archives: Column
BEING MAYOR, Intermission – Anatomy of a winning campaign
KAMLOOPS - What makes for a winning election campaign? So many things influence a campaign that there's no guaranteed winning formula, but there are some fundamentals. With the Being Mayor series now ...
Sep 11, 2017
Go hard on graffiti vandals, be soft with panhandlers
KAMLOOPS - When we're making laws, we should think about the consequences and roots of illegal acts before we get all sanctimonious. Laws are created to control behavior, and some behavior is worse th...
Sep 09, 2017
A Liberal Speaker- who would have thunk it
KAMLOOPS - The election of B.C. Liberal MLA Darryl Plecas as Speaker of the Legislature Friday was interesting on so many fronts. First of all, it certainly got around the NDP/Green coalition problem ...
Sep 08, 2017
Future of Westsyde Pool now in the hands of residents
KAMLOOPS - Despite the recommendations of several in the City Hall hierarchy, Council voted over two years ago to shut down the Westsyde Pool, refurbish it with a new roof, a new aquatic climbing wall...
Sep 08, 2017
Public safety ignored in Schoenborn decision
KAMLOOPS - When the justice system deals with someone like Allan Schoenborn, public safety must be its number one concern. The system has already decided to treat the man who killed his three children...
Sep 08, 2017
Liberals’ tax plan is well-intended, poorly executed
KAMLOOPS - For a man who is so media savvy, Justin Trudeau's ham-handed handling of tax reforms is surprising. He faces a major popularity crisis with his plan to restrict so-called "tax sprinkling" -...
Sep 07, 2017
Help fentanyl labs make a safer drug
KAMLOOPS - Illegal fentanyl lab operators don't intend to kill users. They would prefer to have return customers. The problem, I suspect, is that the fentanyl used is so concentrated that it's hard to...
Sep 07, 2017
Photo radar and other questions about auto insurance rates
KAMLOOPS - Auto insurance is going up yet again - about $130 a year including both basic and optional insurance, according to an ICBC announcement yesterday. The insurer blames it on more crashes, mor...
Sep 06, 2017
BEING MAYOR: Chapter 7 – ‘A Desire for Change’
KAMLOOPS - This is the seventh in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005. By MEL ROTHENBURGER "Well, so much for barbershop polls." - Election speech, Nov. 20, 1999. Nei...
Sep 04, 2017
Why we ought to take another look at our water consumption habits
KAMLOOPS - If your summer fun includes going to the beach, on the shores of either the South or North Thompson Rivers, you likely noticed the receding water line over the last few weeks, more so on th...
Sep 04, 2017
