(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A man experiencing homelessness pulls his belongings over the railroad tracks near 800 West and South Temple on Thursday, June 8, 2023. Salt Lake City's fiscal 2024 budget includes funding for sanctioned homeless camps.
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.