(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Sarah Young, chief of staff at the Utah State Board of Education, addresses the Salt Lake City Council at City Hall on Thursday, July 13, 2023. The council appointed Young to fill the District 7 seat vacated this month by Amy Fowler.
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.