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SLC group takes upbeat approach to apocalypse prep

It might be the end of the world, but Transition Salt Lake feels fine

By Eric S. Peterson
POSTED // Nov 28,2012 - In a small and comfy east-side Salt Lake City home, the steering committee of Transition Salt Lake has gathered over cups of peppermint tea to discuss the end of the world.

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No Labor Support

Democrats losing union support to Republicans

By Eric S. Peterson
POSTED // Nov 21,2012 - Before Utah’s legendary union boss and Democratic Party Vice Chair Jim Judd passed away in August, West Valley state House candidate Liz Muniz recalls, he placed a hand on her shoulder ...

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Lane Heaps: Long Goodbye

Death of ex-cop points to need for services

By Stephen Dark
POSTED // Nov 14,2012 - When Lane Heaps was a graveyard patrol cop, he found an elderly transient crying under the freeway. An unidentified assailant had sliced her cheeks so deeply that “you could see her tonsils.”

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SLC Councilman Plans Blight Ban

Possible fines for decrepit buildings

By Eric S. Peterson
POSTED // Nov 7,2012 - All it takes to ruin the fun for all the developers in town is for one company to kick tenants to the curb, knock down an iconic block of Salt Lake City and then fill the crater only with empty promises.

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Election Profile: Ben McAdams

Popular Dem. senator wants to lead

By Eric S. Peterson
POSTED // Oct 24,2012 - Under the pavilion, McAdams also unflinchingly takes one of his least-favorite campaign questions from a mother, with babe in arms, who admits she comes from a Republican family.

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Tar-Sands Battle

First hearing to be held Oct. 24

By Eric S. Peterson
POSTED // Oct 17,2012 - In 2011, the Utah Division of Water Quality green-lighted a water permit for what could be the first tar-sands mine not only in Utah but the country.

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Election Profile: Mark Crockett

Mitt-Lite or “Rocky of the Right”?

By Eric S. Peterson
POSTED // Oct 10,2012 - In running for Salt Lake County mayor, Republican Mark Crockett can bank on his years as a consultant, advising businesses away from the precipices of bankruptcy and back into the money.

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I Watched Him Die

A firsthand account of the Main Street standoff

By Eric S. Peterson
POSTED // Oct 2,2012 - On Thursday night, I watched Anthony Mayhew die. From my second-story desk window at the City Weekly office at 248 S. Main, I watched a standoff unfold between police and Mayhew, who’d threatened to blow himself up along with the Gallivan Plaza TRAX station in front of our offices. He was 40 feet away from me when police shot him.

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Rocky's Lonesome Road

Justice Party struggles to get on ballots

By Eric S. Peterson
POSTED // Sep 26,2012 - Local firebrand and former Democratic Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson threw down the gauntlet against the political establishment by helping found the Justice Party in late 2011 and agreeing to run as its 2012 candidate for president.

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The Battle for Millcreek

Incorporation discussion gets heated

By Stephen Dark
POSTED // Sep 19,2012 - Tempers are running high in Millcreek’s usually peaceful, tree-lined, unincorporated 46 square miles in east-central Salt Lake Valley. Its population of 63,500 has found itself in the middle of an escalating war
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