Weighing a sales tax increase, Salt Lake City is asking residents how to pay for cops, roads, housing and buses

(Scott Sommerdorf | Tribune file photo) A car is about to drive over a section of the damaged road in the intersection of 100 South and University in Salt Lake City, Jan. 24, 2018.

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