A debate over Salt Lake County’s debt load has emerged in the opinion pages of The Salt Lake Tribune, with outgoing County Mayor Peter Corroon writing an op-ed accusing Mark Crockett, the Republican candidate hoping to replace him as mayor, of distorting the facts. Crockett responded with his own op-ed over the weekend, saying Corroon is missing the point about reducing county spending.
Democratic Salt Lake County Mayor Candidate Ben McAdams got some help with fundraising Monday from former President Bill Clinton. While making a short stop in Salt Lake City with former President George W. Bush, Clinton met with McAdams and a small group of his supporters, bringing in $110,000 for the campaign. “He had read how…
Salt Lake County is one step closer to getting more parks and park improvements. Tuesday, the County Council unanimously approved placing a $47 million parks bond proposal requested by Mayor Peter Corroon on the November ballot.
After his last parks bond was rejected by Republicans on the county council, Salt Lake County Mayor Corroon is proposing a new bond measure, still hoping to fix up existing parks and develop new ones in fast-growing areas of the valley. Salt Lake County Community Services Director Erin Litvack says the new proposal is a little over one third of the cost of the bond voted down in June.
Salt Lake City is seeing a large number of Latino candidates running for seats in state legislative races. A total of eight Latinos are running, and six of them are women. KCPW’s Charlotte Duren finds out what’s behind the push from the Latino community to get involved in local and statewide politics.
Depending on which person you ask, the American Legislative Exchange Council is a useful tool for state lawmakers to learn how to promote limited government and free markets, or a secretive, closed-door group where corporate lobbyists have premium access to politicians and get to write their legislation for them.
Eight Republican leaders from across Salt Lake County are throwing their support behind State Senator Ben McAdams, the Democratic nominee for County Mayor. This morning, Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan, Salt Lake City Councilman Carlton Christensen and others announced the formation of a group called “Republicans for Ben McAdams.” The group was created by Taylorsville Mayor Russ Wall, who was supporting Mike Winder’s campaign until he was eliminated in the GOP primary election.
There are many critical issues on the table this election year in Salt Lake County, like canyons development, SkiLink, human services and incorporation, to name a few. And today, we talked with two candidates running for the county council about those topics.
With the debate over the controversial SkiLink proposal and proposed wilderness protections in the background, Mayor Ralph Becker took his push to protect the Wasatch Canyons to Washington this week, meeting with officials from a White House council and Utah’s congressional delegation. KCPW’s Jeff Robinson spoke with Becker about his meetings and what he hopes comes out this process.
Mark Crockett is officially the Republican nominee for Salt Lake County Mayor. After beating West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder by only 239 votes on primary election night, the former county councilman’s lead increased to 1,019 votes Tuesday after the final count, including absentee ballots and mail-in votes, was released by the clerk’s office. Crockett says his GOP opponent ran an amazingly good race.
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