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"In the past, under Rocky Anderson, the sidewalk was washed and cleaned one to two times per week by the central business district. Now it is washed and cleaned one to two times per several months."
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"The retrofit fountain will be smart as well as clean, he added, because the filtration system will recirculate the 4,000 gallons of water. Mayor Rocky Anderson's zero-waste initiative demanded that, Graham said."
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"Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson rallied U.S. mayors Thursday to insist on immediate screening of all checked airline baggage—leading to some verbal fireworks with federal officials who say that just isn't possible right now. 'We screen all carry-on luggage, but we don't screen baggage that is checked. That doesn't make any sense,' Anderson said, adding it could allow the smuggling of bombs or hazardous materials on board.' "
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Surrounding himself with vivid paintings and spiced coffee at the Mestizo art gallery, Anderson caught all manner of curve balls during his first "Saturday morning with the mayor" forum since the Games.
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"[Mayor] Anderson told a large group of public officials Thursday that local politicians need to step up with public funding. There are other communities around the nation that are more than willing to pony up if Utah isn't, he said.
Anderson called the meeting of city, county, state and business leaders to present his Fairpark idea, which replaced his earlier plan that would've put the stadium downtown next to the Grand America Hotel." |
"Anderson said: "I'm pursuing MLS in Utah. I am absolutely committed to doing everything we can to put a deal together."
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The mayor [Rocky Anderson]- who last week asserted "everybody's been deceived," by RSL's efforts to recast its $7.5 million pledge for the sports park - expressed regret for Wednesday's tone. He also denied "smearing" Checketts - before taking some more swipes.
'It's great that we're finally at this point where Real is going to live by their word,' he said, adding if he ever deals with Checketts again, 'I'd like to get it in writing. 'I'm not sure [if he'll come through within 30 days]. If it were two or three months ago, I would have said, absolutely.' . . . Despite the detente, Anderson says the episode 'really saddens me.' 'I've always considered Dave Checketts a friend.' " |
Instead of building a bridge over Main Street, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson wants to close a block of the street to traffic.
Closing the block to vehicle traffic "would be a way to unify the development, encourage pedestrian traffic between both halves of it and enhance the other efforts by the developer to make the mall more permeable to pedestrian traffic while still preserving the view corridor and allowing for more sidewalk activity," [Anderson's spokesman, Patrick Thronson]said. |
"Mayor Rocky Anderson offered another compromise on Monday to resolve the fight over protest rights on the Mormon church's Main Street Plaza — a solution the church appeared to embrace.
The city would give up a sidewalk easement on the church-owned plaza — extinguishing free speech rights there — for 2.17 acres of church-owned land on the city's west side. Bishop David Burton said the mayor's idea represents a "workable solution" that he'll take to leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Anderson said the land gained by the city near the Sorenson Center in Glendale would be used for a community center. Developer James Sorenson has pledged $1 million and the Huntsman and Eccles families another $1 million to build it. The settlement would also require the church to and the city to split all costs and attorney fees." |
" 'We commend the mayor, who's here today, for all that he's done to bring about a resolution to that very difficult and serious problem,' President Hinckley said during a speech at a 10th anniversary celebration for the Joseph Smith Memorial Building."
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"Leadership is about more than choosing sides or stubbornly advocating for a position. Leadership must bring different sides together— and find solutions. With greater understanding of the facts leading to this dispute—and to the solutions I have proposed—this community can now come together in greater peace and harmony, more respectful of our diversity and of each other." - Rocky Anderson
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"Focusing on constructive problem-solving, rather than being solely concerned with enforcement and punishment, we established Crisis Intervention Teams, to ensure mentally ill people receive appropriate care and attention. Our view is that if the conduct is a result of a mental health problem, we should be focused primarily on resolving the mental health problem, not on punishment and retribution. . . " - Rocky Anderson
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"Mayor Anderson, who blames the malls for destroying a once-thriving downtown, said the church should have worked with urban planners and designers to create a blueprint for a genuinely urban streetscape that would evolve organically. Making the city walkable is particularly challenging here, the mayor notes, because each city block occupies a daunting 10 acres. 'We just need to learn from the mistakes of the past,' said the mayor, a former president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. 'There's nothing I've read in any of the literature about downtowns or urban revitalization that says new enclosed malls are the answer.'"
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" 'I'm trying to solve the problem on a local and national level,' Anderson said. . .referring to the letter sent to some 50 other mayors and to his office's effort to direct contributions to Centro Civico Mexicano for airport workers' families. 'We're putting together packages of food and toys for five of these families,' he added."
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President Bush and some members of Congress want nuclear waste stored at Nevada's Yucca Mountain, which they say could divert the waste away from the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Tooele County. Reps. Jim Hansen and Chris Cannon, both Utah Republicans, voted to establish Yucca as a permanent site, saying it could save Utah from the dangers associated with radiation.
The Salt Lake mayor, in his signature style mixing passion and documentation, warned otherwise. 'If the Yucca Mountain proposal were approved, huge amounts of nuclear waste would be transported through Salt Lake City every day for many years,' Anderson said in his Senate testimony. 'Salt Lake City will, by all estimations, see more traffic of nuclear waste than any other U.S. city except Las Vegas.' " |
"Almost four months ago, Anderson signed three executive orders: One restricts city workers’ acceptance of gifts. Another encourages managers to consider diversity when hiring. And a third is meant to protect gay city employees from discrimination.
His unilateral action outraged council members. Councilman David Buhler penned an angry letter to Anderson and persuaded his colleagues to ask [City Attorney Roger Cutler] for an opinion defining city government roles." |
"In preparing his veto, Anderson had city attorneys examine state laws that govern redevelopment agencies across Utah. Attorneys discovered that Salt Lake City's bylaws, which give Anderson the ability to veto, ran contrary to state statues governing redevelopment agencies. 'I was prepared to veto the board's action,' Anderson wrote last week to RDA chairman Van Turner. 'However, a review of state statutes has revealed that those who drafted the original bylaws went further in their effort to ensure a system of checks and balances than permitted by state law. State law . . . does not grant a veto power to the chief administrative officer.'"
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"'George [Shaw] is very committed to smart growth," Anderson said. 'We both see this as a great opportunity to pursue progressive urban-planning principles because we both think very much alike.' Shaw said Wednesday he does share the mayor's philosophy that limits sprawl and emphasizes alternative transportation and sustainable development. And he said he already has implemented such designs where he could."
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" 'Imagine being able to relax while someone else drives you to work,' Anderson began. 'Imagine being able to go outside and exercise without worrying about polluted air. Imagine being able to see the mountains year-round.'
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"'There are direct adverse impacts of this on Salt Lake City as a result of Legacy Highway with increased cars and increased pollution.' Anderson said Legacy proponents are engaging in a reckless plan that compromises precious wetlands and ignores the sensibilities of mass transit."
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"Environmental groups and Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson have long denounced the road. They argue that it would not only destroy wetlands, but would perpetuate sprawl and further degrade the Front's already murky air."
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BRIDGE-BUILDING WITH DIVERSE PEOPLE
"And then, as if on Kafka's cue, a yellow-naped Amazonian parrot, perched in the corner of his room, let out a squawk... The strangest thing about Anderson is not that he has a parrot in his office, but that he is in office at all."
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"The Alliance for Unity, the brainchild of two political opposites — industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr., and Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson — brought together community leaders of many faiths, ethnic backgrounds and community interests, including the editor of this newspaper."
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"According to the mayor, diver- sity in practice brings strength to our communities and is not easily accomplished. He says practicing diversity, actually listening and learning from alternative views takes conscious efforts. While difficult to accomplish, diversity builds a society based on respect and equality."
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" 'We both wanted to bring peace to the community over this,' Anderson said. 'He and I would find matters where our viewpoints converged, but there also was some disagreement. Sometimes, there wasn't compromise, but there was a healthy mutual respect, and we approached our disagreements with a healthy sense of humor.' "
“[Rocky] was known nationally and internationally for his environmental, peace and human rights work, while he made sure city services, including policing, were of the highest quality. He also vastly improved our parks, successfully pushed for more public transit, and implemented life-saving bicycle- and pedestrian-safety measures.”
" 'There is sort of a feeding frenzy and I get to be the chum,' [Anderson] says. 'I have never resorted to cheap personal attacks and yet it seems like a lot of legislators are spending a whole lot of time up there doing just that.' "
"Anderson says he has never singled out LDS members, but has rather called for more diversity including religion, race and sexual orientation." Rocky Anderson has spent much of his adult life helping those in need and fighting for the civil and human rights of all. That’s why he received the American Association for Justice’s national In Defense of Civil Liberties Award. His support of equality for the LGBTQ+ community came much earlier than almost anyone in politics. When Rocky supported same sex marriage during his congressional race in 1996, he knew it would probably cost him the election (it did), but his commitment to principled leadership meant more to him than winning an election.
"Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson was honored Friday by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Utah for supporting the state's gay and lesbian community."
"At worst, it would deprive non-English speakers of their rights... Anderson and seven other individuals filed suit against the law just before it went into effect..."
"Anderson drew the association's attention for his advocacy for Utah Hispanics, including opposing English-only laws, supporting immigrant rights in an airport raid in 2001 and opposing deputizing police officers as agents for Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1997."
"Salt Lake City's Mayor is fed up with Utah laws he says are restrictive and ill-conceived. Speaking out today, Rocky Anderson stressed 'Freedom' from public policies he says the Legislature needs to change for the good of the state. Rocky Anderson is taking on the Legislature, calling for change on seven divisive topics he says hurt both the state's image and public safety. Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake City Mayor: 'The image is that this is sort of a whacko repressed place, and that we have all these bizarre laws. We need to get away from that image.' Directly to the point, the mayor wants to boost gun safety, saying state gun laws are inadequate to protect people. He wants to force government contractors to pay a living wage, undoing a law passed at the capitol three years ago. And, he's taking on the alcohol laws again."
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"The city’s energetic mayor, Rocky Anderson, a former Mormon who left the Church at the age of eighteen after what he said was 'an intense period of self-examination,' has made bridging the divide between non-Mormons and Mormons a priority of his administration. 'I believe we’d have a far better community,' he told me, 'if people could break out of their isolation on both sides.' "
"Anderson said he was compelled to agree with the court’s ruling that the city was responsible for controlling conduct on the public sidewalk, not the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which had imposed a long list of forbidden behaviors. The mayor’s statement came after two closed-door meetings with advisors. The mayor said he would like reasonable and constitutional restrictions on the sidewalk, and would take to the City Council recommendations for so-called time, place and manner rules. 'If, hypothetically, they came up with something that was constitutionally suspect, I would veto it. We’ve had enough of this division in the community,' Anderson said. Anderson also issued a plea that visitors to the plaza 'be peaceful, respectful of others and -- most of all -- kind and friendly in our interactions.'"
Instead of building a bridge over Main Street, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson wants to close a block of the street to traffic.
Closing the block to vehicle traffic "would be a way to unify the development, encourage pedestrian traffic between both halves of it and enhance the other efforts by the developer to make the mall more permeable to pedestrian traffic while still preserving the view corridor and allowing for more sidewalk activity," [Anderson's spokesman, Patrick Thronson] said. 
" 'We commend the mayor, who's here today, for all that he's done to bring about a resolution to that very difficult and serious problem,' President Hinckley said during a speech at a 10th anniversary celebration for the Joseph Smith Memorial Building."
" 'This is a time when we can learn more about the challenges facing these families, especially refugee families,' Anderson said."
"We incarcerate a greater percentage of our population every year, spend more money on jails and prisons, and contribute to the destruction of families and individual lives – all without coming anywhere close to winning the 'war on drugs,' clearing gangs out of our cities, or reducing the incidence of domestic violence."
"Cory Stringfellow, 31, was among 35 inmates whose prison sentences were commuted by Clinton during his last hours in office. Utah's two Republican senators also had lobbied on Stringfellow's behalf. But the Salt Lake couple say it was Anderson who waged a personal, and sometimes lonely, crusade for three years against what they describe as unreasonably long prison terms for drug offenders. That campaign continued last week as Anderson went to Washington, D.C., and publicly asked Clinton to grant clemency for Stringfellow and what might be hundreds of nonviolent drug offenders."
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"Two years after his election, Anderson's job performance polls showed he had turned half of his LDS detractors into supporters."
"The goal of the project is to get the community at large involved in thoughtful conversations about how to get along better, in spite of religious differences. The mayor told KSL the long bitter controversy over Salt Lake City's main street plaza is the impetus behind this project. Rocky
Anderson, Mayor of Salt Lake City: 'I was committed to doing whatever I could to never see the kind of meanness that came about, the hostility that rose above the surface based on differences in religious affiliation.' " 
"On numerous occasions, including statements reported in the Deseret News, I have publicly — and consistently — stated that, of course, the LDS Temple is a major landmark in Salt Lake City, which should be one of our city's primary icons seen by people throughout the world during the 2002 Games. The temple not only signifies the fact that Salt Lake City is the world headquarters for the LDS Church, but it symbolizes much of the heritage of our city and state — a heritage I greatly respect.
We would be making a huge mistake not to show the world the LDS Temple, as it is one of the defining cultural icons of our city. In a Nov. 4, 1999, Deseret News article ("Rocky Not Easing Off"), I was quoted as saying, 'Hey, this is the headquarters of the LDS Church. The temple is the largest tourist attraction in the city. We're not proselytizing. (To hide the temple from view would be) like going to Rome and saying we're not going to show you the Vatican.' " - Rocky Anderson 
"Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson called Hinckley "one of those rare people who exuded such tremendous warmth, wit and goodwill, with people of all kinds. 'In my dealings with President Hinckley, he was always incredibly gracious and strove in every way to bring people together while respecting their differences.' Anderson said he always walked away from his interactions with Hinckley 'feeling uplifted and even energized. He had enormous energy and drive, even at a very advanced age and seemed remarkably sharp, always.' "
"Mayor Rocky Anderson, who has been working on ways to tie University events into Downtown, is excited by the collaboration between downtown businesses, Salt Lake City, and the University. 'These tailgate parties will add a whole new dimension to enjoying Ute games,' said Anderson. 'We all want Downtown and the Utes to succeed. These parties are one more way for everyone to get behind the team and for football fans to get behind Downtown. With the TRAX light rail line to take fans to Rice-Eccles Stadium in just minutes, there’s no better place to tailgate than the Gallivan Center or The Gateway.' "
"Mayor of Salt Lake City, Rocky Anderson was integral to convening 46 US Mayors at the Sundance Summit to address climate change in 2005. Here he talks to The Climate Group about how Salt Lake City is reducing its emissions and why cities have a crucial role to play in climate change mitigation."
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In July, state Sen. Nate Blouin, D-Salt Lake City, authored an email paid for and distributed by Erin Mendenhall's mayoral reelection campaign. "The constructive tone Erin has set has finally created a real partnership in confronting the statewide homelessness crisis," he said.
The idea of "partnership" between the incumbent Salt Lake City mayor and state legislators obscures the statistics of Utah's 2023 Annual Data Report on Homelessness. The Deseret News reported that it "showed a 96% increase in people experiencing chronic homelessness since 2019 and a 10% jump, year over year, to 8,637 people experiencing homelessness for the first time."
Square these numbers with a recent re-election ad by Mendenhall, boasting that Salt Lake City's two homeless centers can increase capacity by 50 beds apiece, plus another 200 beds during "Code Blue" events when temperatures are 15 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. The majority of overflow beds aren't even in Salt Lake City, but other places throughout the county.
Paucities. Out-of-city solutions. Arbitrariness.
Anything below 32 degrees is freezing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that extreme cold varies, meaning we can experience it at temperatures above freezing. Fifteen degrees—well below freezing—is an odd number that appears to mean something.
I invite Mayor Mendenhall or state homeless coordinator Wayne Niederhauser to spend a couple nights outside this winter and report back to the public. What is the difference between 15 and 17 degrees? Or between 17 and 20?
Last winter, unhoused SLC residents died at unprecedented rates. Richard Markosian of Utah Stories reported that the city's count is likely low, and The Salt Lake Tribune revealed that at least a dozen people had died due to exposure. Winter descends, and Mendenhall touts a long-term strategy. But, as reported by the Deseret News, she now lacks funding.
A strategy without funding? At best, this is wishful thinking. And at worst? Another winter with our incumbent as mayor.
Instead of ideating and enacting solutions, Mendenhall is on record saying that sanctioned encampments aren't the city's responsibility. Mendenhall ultimately flip-flopped on the topic, changing her campaign message. "[M]y administration and staff ... are working daily ... on a safe, structured sanctioned campground," she now claims, while continuing to condone raids on the houseless.
Of the abatements, Mendenhall said in June: "We participate in those because it's inhumane for a city to allow [unhoused residents to live in] public spaces that were never fit for human habitation." This is a classic example of punishing the victim.
Sen. Blouin claims that Mendenhall's work has "resulted in direct investment in reducing the impacts of homelessness." Huh? I've deliberated over what his words, when cobbled together, mean. A deconstruction of the sentence reveals it describes nothing.
Moreover, our streets showcase the opposite of Blouin's sloganeering.
People are forced from one unlawful camp to the next because there's nowhere to go. These folks require shelter, hospitalization and/or rehabilitation. Instead of meaningful reform, Mendenhall humanizes the cyclical abuse of government-sanctioned abatements—a mean-spirited act that includes stealing from the poorest among us.
In a KSL NewsRadio report, Rocky Anderson—former two-term mayor and candidate for reelection this November—talked about the previous winter: "We had people on our streets dying of the freezing cold, getting frostbite and having their fingers and their toes amputated," he said. "That is an absolute crisis, and it was ignored."
What do meaningful political partnerships really look like? They look like Anderson's relationship with Latter-day Saints and non-LDS communities, his positive associations with Republicans and his forthright engagement with the media, Capitol Hill and the public.
Anderson is transparent. He's empathetic. This past winter, he personally drove a frostbitten victim to the emergency room. Between The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News, there exist many articles that report on his commitment to bipartisanship.
Following the 2002 Winter Olympics, Anderson endorsed now-Utah Sen. Mitt Romney for Massachusetts governor, and Romney in turn endorsed Anderson's reelection campaign. As reported by the Deseret News, the Alliance for Unity was a "brainchild of two political opposites, industrialist Jon Huntsman Sr. and Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson." The program brought together civic, business and religious leaders of all faiths and political backgrounds to bridge divides in the community.
A 2003 Deseret News article about the Joseph Smith Memorial Building's 10th anniversary quotes Gordon B. Hinkley—the late president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—praising then-Mayor Anderson's leadership. Anderson also received the 2019 Leonard Weinglass in Defense of Civil Liberties Award from the American Association for Justice.
Humane results through dialogue, constructive collaboration, partnerships unrestricted by political or religious affiliation as well as humor, sensitivity, transparency and seriousness. These rank among the man's documented strengths as a public servant.
Our collective humanity deserves solutions for our city's houseless—not senatorial marketing puffery in "Paid for by Mendenhall" advertisements. We need representation that understands the difference between brinkmanship and positive change.
I'm disenchanted with Sen. Nate Blouin and the other supporters of Mayor Erin Mendenhall, not because they don't see what I see—but because what they describe isn't what I see.
Calvin Jolley lives in Salt Lake's Central City neighborhood. His credits include The American Book Review, MAYDAY Magazine by New American Press, Context South, 15 Bytes, Otis Nebula, and The Salt Lake Tribune. He is an issue voter who has no formal political affiliation with Rocky Anderson's campaign for mayor.
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"Inclusiveness and the valuing of diversity was core to virtually everything we did when I was mayor."- Rocky Anderson
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"The mayor [Rocky Anderson], who says he has made great efforts to diversify the city's staff, was offended that the council would cut the Equal Employment Opportunity coordinator and an inspector's job in Community and Economic Development, especially because the two employees were ethnic minorities."
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"According to [Rocky], diversity in practice brings strength to our communities and is not easily accomplished. He says practicing diversity, actually listening and learning from alternative views takes conscious efforts. While difficult to accomplish, diversity builds a society based on respect and equality."
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"His letters to community members are mailed in at least three languages. And he always has a Spanish translator on hand at his roving 'Saturday Morning With the Mayor' events. If Anderson were prohibited from such actions by Utah's so-called English-Only Law, he says his constituents would be at a loss."
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"How ironic that Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson is being criticized for not appointing more women to Salt Lake City's Airport Authority Board. Ironic, and unfair. Anderson has a reputation as a champion of diversity. He has appointed what is believed to be the first woman chief of staff in the city's history."
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"At worst, it would deprive non-English speakers of their rights... Anderson and seven other individuals filed suit against the law just before it went into effect..."
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"Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson calls it 'blatantly racist.' "
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"The Utah House of Representatives on Thursday defeated an initiative that would have made English the official language of Utah. So in Utah, for now, many state-sponsored informational pamphlets will still be available in English, Spanish and various other languages."
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"If elected, Ibarra said he would address homelessness, help businesses develop and stay at the table through difficult negotiations with other leaders."
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"With a dozen members of Utah's gay and lesbian community looking on, [Rocky] Anderson signed an executive order giving city employees the opportunity to have their unmarried partners sign up for health-care benefits. 'It's done,' the mayor said, dropping his pen. But for some conservative politicians the fight has just begun. They reject the gay community's view of the city's order, saying it's part of a broader effort to one day elevate gay marriage to an equal footing with traditional marriage."
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" 'A radical compassionate, and compassionately radical,' pithily surmised former mayor and international human rights activist Rocky Anderson"
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" 'The search for a highly competent, dignified, principled running mate has been arduous,' Rocky stated. 'Luis exceeds any expectations I had. He will inform, uplift, and motivate in this campaign, just as he does every day in his inspirational work.' "
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YOUTH PROGRAMS & COLLABORATING WITH YOUNG PEOPLE
"Wolf and Anderson received word that Congress had earmarked $1.2 million for Salt Lake City's after-school activities for youth ages 11 to 17 — by far the largest piece of funding the nearly 2-year-old YouthCity program has received."
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" 'I hope you know how welcome you are in our community and the strength you bring to it,' Anderson told the refugees from more than five countries. "Bringing different stories to us opens such amazing windows in our own lives.' "
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"Anderson saw for himself the plight of young girls when he attended a Global Warming Conference in New Delhi, India last October. Anderson presented a slide show preceding the premiere which included photographs of sections of G.B. Road, a red light district in New Delhi."
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"We represent a group of 28 West High students who were able to participate in a job internship program last summer. The program was run in partnership with Mayor Rocky Anderson's YouthCity Employment Program."
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"The YouthCity Program provides fun, enriching activities for young people during time spent out of school. Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson created the program after taking office in 2000 as a way to provide more after-school programs for local youths."
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"About 50 students greeted Mayor Rocky Anderson at the Union's Crimson Underground for a speech...on the importance of getting involved in the political process, and volunteering."
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"Good after-school and summer programs reduce adolescent crime and keep young people from getting on a destructive criminal track. Because of these programs, we have a safer community—and we help build better lives and better families." - Rocky Anderson, Catalyst Magazine
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" 'The city has really neglected its human infrastructure: our kids,' [Mayor Rocky Anderson] told the Deseret News. . . 'The stars are all aligned,' Anderson said, since Salt Lake City just accepted $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Education to expand YouthCity, its 2-year-old package of programs for children and teens. Now, with the Olympic money, 'this is a no-brainer,' at least to the mayor, to lock YouthCity in for the long term."
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"The net result has been lost and ruined lives, many of which could have been saved through the utilization of effective drug prevention programs. I’m not simply against D.A.R.E.; I’m for effective programs." — Rocky Anderson
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"In a long-awaited announcement, Anderson laid out the city's plan to turn its old library building into the Utah Science Center and headquarters for Global Artways, the Center for Documentary Arts and the Center for Communities and Culture, a cooperative of ethnic and arts organizations. Many CCC groups have spent years looking for exhibit and performance space; they range from the International Children's Choir to La Alianza Latina para el Progresso."
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"Some 4,000 Salt Lake children and teenagers take part in the city's youth programs — but many more miss out. And that, Mayor Rocky Anderson says, poses a danger to the whole community. 'There's a huge, gaping hole waiting for about 80 percent of our kids,' he said, adding that young people with nothing to do after school 'are prone to the temptations of drugs, sex and crime,' along with too many hours of 'violent, mind-numbing' TV."
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Children are out of school for 80% of their waking hours each year. Most of that time is unstructured. That time offers both tremendous risks and remarkable opporutnities–too often, wasted opportunities." Rocky Anderson, Catalyst Magazine, August 2022
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wEST SIDE SALT LAKE CITY
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"Rocky vigorously opposes the Inland Port and opposes the current proposal for the warehouse district in the Northwest Quadrant of Salt Lake City. '"Such a horrible idea on so many levels" — former SLC Mayor Rocky Anderson rails against inland port' Salt Lake Tribune, March 7, 2022"
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"'It’s outrageous that Salt Lake City is proposing another warehouse district, which will further degrade our air quality with polluting warehouse development, when dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is increasingly threatening to human health,' Stop the Polluting Port Coalition and Great Salt Lake Audubon wrote in call-to-action emails sent this week."
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"...Anderson believes neighborhood business and walkable neighborhoods would reduce dependence on cars and would be more appropriate for the future of West Side development. We will also talk with Mayor Anderson, existing community leaders, and emerging leaders in the neighborhood and ethnic business community about their ideas for the future of Salt lake City’s West Side."
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"'We want to see an economic development plan for the West Side that helps bring in more mixed housing, including affordable housing, along with neighborhood retail that will bring more diversity and convenience to neighborhoods,' Anderson said."
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"Mayor Anderson proposed trading the city’s easement on the plaza in return for the 2.17 acres and the promise to build a community facility and provide programs for the 'underserved'."
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"But will the infusion of new faces create the “big changes” Wright expects and hopes for? After all, it’s not as if Democrats didn’t have fiery progressives before now. Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson represented that strong-worded wing of the party but had few companions in his party known for their tough talk."
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"The judges also said the sale was 'reasonable' because the city received $5 million for an easement valued at $500,000. The millions will build a center in the west-side community of Glendale."
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"Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson's effort to evict the Union Pacific Railroad from the Poplar Grove and Glendale neighborhoods has been foiled in federal court, for now."
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"...the mitigation plan forbids Union Pacific from traveling faster than 30 mph in the neighborhood and would not allow the railroad to take high-level radioactive waste through the 900 South corridor."
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"...I think he has learned from the hard issues he has faced this past four years. I therefore support the re-election of Rocky Anderson as Salt Lake City mayor." - Edie Trimmer
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" 'Within the next year or two we will be able to reconfigure the Grant Tower tracks and remove the 9th South Union Pacific line from 900 South forever,' Anderson said."
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"[A] major effort that relates to transportation, the environment, open spaces, and quality of life is...Union Pacific taking its trains off the 900 South line..."
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"The battle over renovations at Pioneer Park has pitted Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson against the City Council for years, and now the administration is taking its case to the people."
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" 'We used to have rail lines running through here,' Mayor Anderson said, 'and it served as an effective barrier between the east and west sides of our city. This is now stunning open space.' "
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" 'We're thrilled with the results,' Anderson said. 'There's been a very positive trend for the past several years in terms of overall satisfaction by residents of city services and also the perception of safety in the community.' "
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"For a lot of people, Pioneer Park's best features are overshadowed by a seedy reputation. Changing that image will be tough and Mayor Rocky Anderson is taking on a plan he says both he and citizens want. Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake City Mayor: 'Cities, to a very large extent, can be defined by the kinds of parks and open space that they have.' "
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" 'This new precinct is the embodiment of our community's resolve to stop crime,' Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson told a group of officers, city officials and neighborhood residents attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony."
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"Anderson touts public safety improvements on the city's west side over the past four years. The city recently opened Fire Station No. 9 near the airport and earlier this month opened the Pioneer Police Precinct, 1040 West 700 South."
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"[Archie Archuletta] worked as the administrative assistant for minority affairs as part of former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson’s administration."
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ROCKY'S LETTER TO ARCHIE ARCHULETA AND REMINISCENCES ABOUT THEIR FIGHTS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
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OLYMPIAN EFFORT TO HANDLE HOMELESS
"The opening of the shelter—financed with city, county and state funds—stands in contrast to Atlanta, where in advance of the 1996 Summer Olympics, police arrested 10,000 homeless people....Salt Lake City instead is putting out the welcome mat. 'We respect the human and civil rights of everyone, including the homeless, during these Olympics,' said Mayor Rocky Anderson, a former attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. 'We won’t be doing roundups or anything like that. This community is very caring toward the homeless.' "
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" 'I think a lot of people would look at (the Olympic funding deal) and say it was a minor miracle,' SLOC President Mitt Romney said. 'He was instrumental, key, in reaching a solution.' "
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"Following the drama of the Olympic Torch Relay announcement, Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson will kick off a party in the Gallivan Center.
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"Loosening the city’s alcohol restrictions during the Games was an idea touted by Mayor Rocky Anderson, who says he wants to create a festive atmosphere downtown during the Olympics.
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"Part of this image is propelled by the fact that Romney and several other high-ranking Olympic officials are practicing Mormons, but Salt Lake City's energetic mayor, Rocky Anderson, is not, and he has dedicated the next year to making sure his city is portrayed as a fun, interesting vacation destination, especially for skiers."
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"We will be presenting our proposal at the Copenhagen Congress's session on the theme 'Good governance and ethics,' under which it was filed, on October 4. Among the early supporters of our proposal is Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City when this city hosted the 2002 Winter Games."
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" 'At the time I felt that it would only benefit a few people economically, and I was concerned about both environmental impacts and about greater numbers of people,' Anderson said. 'A lot of my concerns were obliterated by the way they planned the Olympics.' "
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" 'Rocky took us all over town and showed us that we could get a drink at a Mexican restaurant and at a dance club and he even made a stop where he put on tights and made a walk-on at the opera house in the production of Carmen, which was kind of interesting,' she says."
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"According to Olympic tradition, Salt Lake City leaders had to deliver a message of peace, youth and environment to Torino [Italy]... using environmentally friendly modes of transportation that didn't burn fossil fuels."
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"We have dedicated more police officers at certain buildings where we think there is a greater likelihood of some kind of retaliation from one or the other side. We want to make certain that those in our Muslim community are protected, as well as everybody else in the community."
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"They're the 'patriots,' the 'good citizens' Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson says he admires. They'll take to the streets during the Olympics, presenting sides of the host city that neither locals nor visitors may have seen before. . . The mayor couldn't be prouder of the variety of groups planning Games-time demonstrations. 'I think people will get a real sense of the vitality of public dialogue in this country,' he told a group of foreign journalists last week."
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"Salt Lake City has a new planning director, one who is more in line with Mayor Rocky Anderson's vision for the city [...] artist and Artspace founder Stephen Goldsmith."
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"Rocky Anderson put out a call to artists, to use the sidewalks and parks to perform, display, and sell their art. Sidewalks are just sidewalks. But the Mayor wants them to also be filled with art. He says it will improve the city's vibrancy, culture and creativity."
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"The Rocky Roast, an evening of allegedly good-natured ribbing of Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson, will raise funds for Salt Lake Acting Company."
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"Mayor Rocky Anderson should be lauded for trying to bring artwork to downtown Salt Lake City. He should also be lauded for recognizing that the downtown 'paint the kiosk' project was really a white elephant in disguise."
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"In 2007, then-Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson honored artist, collector and Brushworks Gallery owner Darryl Drage with the Mayor's Artist Award for Service to the Arts."
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"Anderson and some select reporters will trek from art gallery to art gallery Friday night as the mayor attempts to promote the city's art houses. The trek even has a catchy name, 'Rock and Stroll 2003.' "
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"Five years after getting his 'face bashed in,' Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson still wants to lift a restriction on the number of bars allowed on a city block. He said increasing the concentration of bars would boost another big idea of his — a downtown arts district with a new 2,400-seat first-run Broadway theater and a renovated Utah Theatre on Main Street."
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"Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson still has to win the City Council's endorsement of his open-space plan. There will, however, be an amphitheater and other open space around the new Main Library building, which is scheduled to open next January."
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"Members of both bands fondly recall in 2002, when Salt Lake City hosted the Winter Olympics, the gigs were plentiful. They wound up performing at the same party, thrown by then-Mayor Rocky Anderson outside the City-County Building, freezing their behinds off in the February snow."
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"As Mayor of Salt Lake City, and on behalf of our residents, I am pleased to welcome the first Stradivarius International Violin Competition in June 2007. We are delighted that you have chosen our city to host your competition."
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"The piece, titled 'Elementals', was on a best-selling Brubeck album. The whole idea of reviving it came from jazz music fan, Rocky Anderson, Salt Lake Mayor: 'I've had so many people held hostage in my home while I had them listen to this piece. It is a phenomenal work.' "
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"She also kept the mood light, chatting with the crowd about whether she had worn the same skirt during her last visit to Salt Lake City, and even dedicating a song to Mayor Rocky Anderson, a friend-of-a-friend, in 'Hey, Big Shot.' "
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"Anderson said, that 'those communities that are more open and welcoming to all different kinds of people and have more outlets for artistic and cultural expression are doing the best in terms of sustained economic development.' "
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"Taking over Salt Lake City, Mayor Rocky Anderson has said, was like 'turning a ship around.' Helping him steer was Stephen Goldsmith, sculptor, nonprofit housing developer and self-described 'fourth-generation outsider.' "
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"Her works, (Galina Perova), cover the gamut from portraits (she did the official portrait of Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson, and one of a president of the World Bank, among others) to still life to landscape and even abstraction."
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A quick clip from a 2007 interview with Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson.
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"Salt Lake rockers Cory Mon & the Starlight Gospel stopped by to perform on Park City Television. Former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson was also a scheduled guest, and he grabbed a guitar and joined the band on 'The River.' "
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