Top row, from left: candidates for the Davis County Commission: Lorene Miner Kamalu; Mark Shepherd; Bob Stevenson and Luke Elijah Brooks. Top row, from left: candidates for the Utah County Commission: Bill Lee; Brandon Gordon; Amelia Powers Gardner and Renee Tribe.
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.