(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall at the groundbreaking for The Other Side Village on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Mendenhall called the village of tiny homes one of her most significant achievements in her battle against homelessness.
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.