Posts Tagged ‘July 09’

Mile 91.1 – I don’t know, maybe it’s to commemorate the touchdown of Salt Lake City’s 1999 tornado or perhaps it is a bronze protest against alien abductions……Then again it may just be a mother playfully swinging her child. That’s the problem with art, I just never get it.

July 2, 2009 – Forbes.com published a list this week that puts Salt Lake City in its top ten most family-friendly cities in America. This may seem like quite an impressive honor; however Baltimore Maryland and Detroit Michigan also made the list of top ten most family-friendly cities. Having spent a bit of time in both Baltimore and Detroit I can’t help but think that Forbes might want to reconsider its metric for measuring family-friendliness.

July 2009 Map

Mile 86.5 – Washington Square, upon which the City County building sits, is a spot where political and social theater often takes place.   From parades to protests, rallies to Rocky Anderson, Washington Square has hosted them all.

This summer there has been a bit of daily drama to behold as Salt Lake City police officers make their mid-morning rounds through Washington Square and wake the vagrants who are sleeping there.

July 1, 2009 – The highly publicized and hotly debated Immigration Bill SB81 goes into effect today. One of the bill’s more contentious points is the provision that allows local law enforcement agencies to be involved in immigration enforcement. Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank has publicly made it known on several occasions that the Salt Lake City Police Department will not enforce SB81.

July 2009 Map