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Matthew Piper

Government reporter

Matthew joined The Tribune in 2012 and has worked as a copy editor, general assignment reporter, University of Utah sports reporter and as a reporter/editor on the web desk. He now covers Salt Lake City.

Rather than loan $4M to a developer, SLC Council votes to buy North Temple motel and hold public bid process

By Matthew Piper | October 25, 2017, 3:19 a.m.

Salt Lake City has $22M to spend on affordable housing. A North Temple motel teardown is first on the mayor’s wish list.

By Matthew Piper | October 24, 2017, 5:49 p.m.

As leaders assess first two months, Operation Rio Grande gets a thumbs up from Utah voters

By Matthew Piper | October 19, 2017, 2:52 p.m.

Operation Rio Grande disrupts drug dealers, but it hasn’t put them out of business

By Matthew Piper | October 18, 2017, 5:25 p.m.

SLC Council approves new airport director to oversee $3B rebuild

By Matthew Piper | October 18, 2017, 3:44 a.m.

Rio Grande Street closure gets SLC Council’s approval

By Matthew Piper | October 18, 2017, 3:25 a.m.

SLC to take a year off Twilight, consider new model in 2019

By Matthew Piper | October 18, 2017, 3:07 a.m.

Leading homelessness expert calls Operation Rio Grande a ‘disaster’

By Matthew Piper | October 12, 2017, 3:11 a.m.

Salt Lake City bids $4M to buy back blighted State Street housing project

By Matthew Piper | October 11, 2017, 3:15 a.m.

Footage ‘tells the truth,’ Utah nurse says after the SLC officer who arrested her was fired

By Luke Ramseth | Pamela Manson | Matthew Piper | October 10, 2017, 11:00 p.m.

Utahns met with Trump’s top man on Medicaid — only to see him resign the next day. What does Price's exit mean for Operation Rio Grande?

By Matthew Piper | October 7, 2017, 1:29 p.m.

From haircuts to housing, one-day event brings array of services to Salt Lake City’s homeless

By Matthew Piper | October 6, 2017, 11:36 p.m.

Salt Lake City Council votes to have Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Columbus Day

By Matthew Piper | October 4, 2017, 4:48 a.m.

Utah-born Kip Thorne wins the Nobel Prize in physics for his role in detecting gravitational waves

By Matthew Piper | October 3, 2017, 10:10 a.m.

Plan to allow a few more 'mother-in-law' apartments sparks outsized controversy in Salt Lake City Council

By Matthew Piper | October 1, 2017, 3:05 p.m.

James Rogers retains Salt Lake City Council seat after opponent withdraws past deadline to change ballots

By Matthew Piper | September 27, 2017, 10:02 p.m.

Two Salt Lake City homeless shelters inch closer to completion, worry nearby business owners

By Matthew Piper | September 27, 2017, 3:28 p.m.

Who is being arrested in Operation Rio Grande? Many have felonies or lengthy records, though few appear to be the promised ‘worst of the worst’

By Matthew Piper | September 18, 2017, 1:06 p.m.

Popular Liberty Park fountain can be reopened for much less than $2M quoted by Salt Lake City, artist’s son says

By Matthew Piper | September 15, 2017, 3:19 a.m.

State builds fence around Rio Grande shelter, even though the SLC Council has yet to sign off

By Matthew Piper | September 12, 2017, 4:19 p.m.