====== Mel Rothenburger ======

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**Mel Rothenburger** is a Canadian writer and politician based in [[canada:british_columbia:Kamloops]], [[canada:British Columbia]]. He is the former mayor of Kamloops as well as former editor of the city's local paper, //The Daily News//.((//Mel Rothenburger.// Armchair Mayor. Retrieved September 7, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220907214019/https://armchairmayor.ca/author/melr/))
===== History =====

==== COVID-19 ====

In September 2022, Rothenburger wrote that "we all know COVID hasn’t gone away but during this past summer it’s almost seemed like it."((Rothenburger, M. (2022, September 6). //ROTHENBURGER: Back to school means the end of summer vacation from COVID.// CFJC Today Kamloops. https://archive.ph/ZnQ3L)) He criticized health authorities' treatment of [[covid-19_public_health_policy:masking]] as a "personal or family choice", and expressed hope that Provincial Health Officer [[Bonnie Henry]] would "ramp up mandates again if needed."
===== Publications =====

  * September 6, 2022: //[[https://archive.ph/ZnQ3L|Back to school means the end of summer vacation from COVID]]//

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