Utah’s plan for the unhoused during the NBA All-Star Game: dinner and a show at homeless shelters
Watch parties are part of a state-funded plan to bolster homeless resources when the national spotlight turns to Salt Lake City.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) People camping along 500 West pack up their belongings before Salt Lake City's Rapid Intervention Team moves in to clean the area, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023.
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.