The Jazz claimed no involvement in plans to get homeless Utahns off the streets for the All-Star Game. Emails show otherwise.
Team President Jim Olson spoke with Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson about plans to get more unsheltered Utahns off the streets during the big event.
(Robin Pendergrast) A person experiencing homelessness uses a discarded All-Star Game banner as part of their shelter as Salt Lake City police patrol the area around 500 West in Salt Lake City, Thursday, March 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.