Primary showdown for S.L. County Council highlights key question: What is — and isn’t — the county’s business?
Incumbent Steve DeBry points to a list of accomplishments; challenger Sheldon Stewart wants county out of land use affairs.
Salt Lake County Council member Steve DeBry, left, and Riverton City Council member Sheldon Stewart, Republican primary candidates for District 5 on the Salt Lake County Council.
Blake joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government before becoming an editor in 2024. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.