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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Salt Lake County Council asks its cities whether it should raise taxes to boost transportation funding

By Bill Dentzer | April 25, 2018, 1:51 a.m.

Cemeteries are known for perpetual care. Salt Lake City’s cemetery needs some.

By Bill Dentzer | April 23, 2018, 3:43 p.m.

Salt Lake City might add fewer police than planned and put more money toward better transit

By Bill Dentzer | April 19, 2018, 3:04 a.m.

Salt Lake City Council will postpone vote on sales tax hike for two weeks

By Bill Dentzer | April 17, 2018, 12:51 a.m.

Mayor Biskupski: Salt Lake City tax, spending proposals for roads, police, housing and transit have 70 percent public support

By Bill Dentzer | April 13, 2018, 1:54 p.m.

With less snow and spring runoff, Salt Lake City will cut back on water use and urge residents to do the same

By Bill Dentzer | April 11, 2018, 4:44 a.m.

Salt Lake City would stop some Airbnb-style renting in mother-in-law apartments, but the dwellings would be OK citywide

By Bill Dentzer | April 11, 2018, 5:54 p.m.

Bob Farrington, urban planner who championed Salt Lake City’s downtown, dies

By Bill Dentzer | April 10, 2018, 4:05 a.m.

Utahns with large families could be paying a lot more in state taxes next year

By Bill Dentzer | April 10, 2018, 2:08 p.m.

Those eligible for cleaning up criminal records can get legal, financial help Thursday

By Bill Dentzer | April 4, 2018, 9:00 p.m.