‘Trib Talk’: Salt Lake City will elect a mayor while the rest of Utah braces for 2020
(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) Candidates for Salt Lake City Mayor talk about issues at Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City on Tuesday July 9, 2019. Emerald Project in partnership with the SLCC Thayne Center hosted the event with, from left, Erin Mendenhall, David Ibarra, David Garbett, Luz Escamilla, Stan Penfold, and Jim Dabakis.
This year’s hottest political contest is the Salt Lake City mayor’s race, with eight hopefuls competing to fill an open seat and lead Utah’s capital city.
But elsewhere in the state, 2020 is rapidly approaching as candidates, campaigns and activists position themselves ahead of elections for president, Congress, governor, the Legislature, ballot initiatives and a potential shakeup in the government of Utah’s second-largest county.
On this week’s episode of “Trib Talk,” Tribune government reporters Benjamin Wood, Bethany Rodgers and Taylor Stevens, joined by Tribune columnist Robert Gehrke, sort through the different political questions facing Utah voters in 2019 and beyond.
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