Bill Dentzer

Government reporter

Bill joined The Tribune in November 2017 from the Idaho Statesman in Boise, where he covered state government and politics. He earlier reported on city and state government and politics in New York for 13 years.

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Andrew Gerbus tees off on #11 at Bonneville Golf Course, Friday, May 11, 2018.

Salt Lake City’s public golf needs subsidies to get by; council to review its handicap

By Bill Dentzer | May 14, 2018, 1:19 a.m.

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Salt Lake City revenues from parking tickets are way down and officials say one reason is the lack of staff after firings of ticket-writers involved in a pizza-for-parking scheme discovered last year. This photo is from March 3, 2015.

Salt Lake City parking fines down $1.2M for year, with 40,000 fewer tickets written. The pizza-for-parking scheme is mostly to blame.

By Bill Dentzer | May 11, 2018, 2:52 a.m.

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Stadler company officers and Utah leaders tour one of Stadler's new TEXRail trains. The company broke ground for a new Stadler plant at 100 S. 5600 West in Salt Lake City, Oct. 13, 2017. Stadler US is an affiliate of a Swiss rail-car-manufacturing company. The project has received a tax incentive from the Governor's Office of Economic Development, which anticipates it will result in the creation of dozens of new, high-paying jobs.

Salt Lake City gives rail-car firm 20-year, $9.6 million development deal to create 1,000 jobs, amid worries that inland port plan could take the money

By Bill Dentzer | May 11, 2018, 2:52 a.m.

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dignitaries turn a shovel of dirt during groundbreaking ceremony for the 200-bed, 60,000-square-foot Geraldine E. King Women's Resource Center at 131 E. 700 South in Salt Lake City, Monday, May 7, 2018. Shelter the Homeless is in the process of developing three new Homeless Resource Centers: two in Salt Lake City and one in South Salt Lake. Scheduled to open in July 2019, these resource centers are part of a broader change to how the current homeless service system helps individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The resource center model is designed to serve clients in a way that helps individuals move quickly out of emergency shelter, toward housing stabilization and independence. Each resource center is designed to serve a specific population, such as single women or single men.

Construction starts on Utah’s first new homeless shelter — a resource center for women in Salt Lake City

By Bill Dentzer | May 8, 2018, 3:36 a.m.

(Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) In this 2015 file photo, the Utah Health Policy Project organized a rally attended by hundreds in support of a Medicaid expansion plan being pushed in the Legislature at that time.

Organizers say Utah’s Medicaid expansion initiative has enough signatures to be on the ballot

By Bill Dentzer | May 4, 2018, 7:16 p.m.

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Ben McAdams and his family celebrate just after it was announced that he had won his race at the Utah Democratic Convention, Saturday, April 28, 2018. McAdams' son Isaac McAdams raises his fist in victory as James and Julie McAdams react.

Love campaign says if Dems win, so does Pelosi, but McAdams says he wouldn’t support the minority leader

By Bill Dentzer | May 3, 2018, 11:23 p.m.

Salt Lake City Council approves half-penny sales-tax hike to bolster police, roads; 7.35% rate begins in October

By Bill Dentzer | May 2, 2018, 4:21 a.m.

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Mayor Jackie Biskupski outlines next year's city budget at a press conference in Salt Lake City Monday April 30. She requested more money for more more street repairs and maintenance and more police officers on the street.

Biskupski budget — with more money for roads, cops, homes and buses — now awaits council action on sales tax

By Bill Dentzer | April 30, 2018, 10:27 p.m.

Mayor Biskupski to release proposed Salt Lake City budget Monday with stand-alone plan for sales-tax increase

By Bill Dentzer | April 28, 2018, 3:01 p.m.

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l-r Carol Evans of Taylorsville and Jan Ferre of Salt Lake City cast their ballots for candidates at the Salt Lake County Democratic convention, Saturday, April 12, 2014, at West Jordan Middle School.

Ben McAdams, Jenny Wilson will each have to defeat 3 Democratic challengers to move on to face Republican rivals

By Bill Dentzer | Taylor W. Anderson | April 29, 2018, 4:38 a.m.