Tom Merrill
@saltlaketom.bsky.social
Utah health policy | Healthy built environment | former Downtown Community Council | Principal at Redstone
THIS MORNING: EPA regional administrator Cyrus Western and SLC's CRA director, Cara Lindsey announce a new EPA site clean up grant to the University of Utah on one of their Rio Grande area properties. An important step in revitalizing the RG District.
May 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
THIS MORNING: EPA regional administrator Cyrus Western and SLC's CRA director, Cara Lindsey announce a new EPA site clean up grant to the University of Utah on one of their Rio Grande area properties. An important step in revitalizing the RG District.
Join me today so we can pack this room and show that we take care of our own. @protectmedicaidut.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Join me today so we can pack this room and show that we take care of our own. @protectmedicaidut.bsky.social
Me giving the rundown of all the 2025 health tech legislation or me singing Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven?
April 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Me giving the rundown of all the 2025 health tech legislation or me singing Valjean Arrested/Valjean Forgiven?
If I'm a Utah tech executive trying to convince top talent to relocate to or stay in the state, seeing my industry association get distracted by building a film festival is not comforting.
March 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If I'm a Utah tech executive trying to convince top talent to relocate to or stay in the state, seeing my industry association get distracted by building a film festival is not comforting.
Walker Center weather tower
"Solid blue: skies are too, flashing blue: clouds are due, solid red: rain ahead, flashing red: snow instead."
Tonight: solid red
"Solid blue: skies are too, flashing blue: clouds are due, solid red: rain ahead, flashing red: snow instead."
Tonight: solid red
March 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Walker Center weather tower
"Solid blue: skies are too, flashing blue: clouds are due, solid red: rain ahead, flashing red: snow instead."
Tonight: solid red
"Solid blue: skies are too, flashing blue: clouds are due, solid red: rain ahead, flashing red: snow instead."
Tonight: solid red
We get on Trax and some teenagers are playing some hip hop from their phone. Not super loud. Old guy gets on, yells at them to turn it down. Next stop, another guy gets on, hears the music and says, “you gotta turn that up” and then does this:
March 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We get on Trax and some teenagers are playing some hip hop from their phone. Not super loud. Old guy gets on, yells at them to turn it down. Next stop, another guy gets on, hears the music and says, “you gotta turn that up” and then does this:
Should be a Snelgrove’s
March 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Should be a Snelgrove’s
An accurate first hand accounting of last night’s Maloy-Kennedy town hall. Wherein, @dcharrison.bsky.social admits he did some booing.
March 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
An accurate first hand accounting of last night’s Maloy-Kennedy town hall. Wherein, @dcharrison.bsky.social admits he did some booing.
Just got off the phone with Malloy's DC office and apparently the town hall maxed registration within 2 hours of being announced this morning. So yeah, you can imagine how this is going to go for them.
March 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Just got off the phone with Malloy's DC office and apparently the town hall maxed registration within 2 hours of being announced this morning. So yeah, you can imagine how this is going to go for them.
Update #7: line was crazy long. Very impressed with how many people are opting for public transit. We got very lucky in that they doubled up on the buses and we were able to get on our first attempt.
March 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Update #7: line was crazy long. Very impressed with how many people are opting for public transit. We got very lucky in that they doubled up on the buses and we were able to get on our first attempt.
Update #1: off the Blue Line and on the 972 to Solitude/Brighton. Kiddos are locked in. 60 min ride ahead of us.
March 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Update #1: off the Blue Line and on the 972 to Solitude/Brighton. Kiddos are locked in. 60 min ride ahead of us.
My trump-loving suburbanite little brother took his family on the Trax for the first time yesterday. From Draper to the Delta Center for Disney on Ice and they loved it! Some shenanigans took place.
March 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My trump-loving suburbanite little brother took his family on the Trax for the first time yesterday. From Draper to the Delta Center for Disney on Ice and they loved it! Some shenanigans took place.
Another observation: there are a lot of grown ass men in the legislature that are scared of the “big city.”
March 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Another observation: there are a lot of grown ass men in the legislature that are scared of the “big city.”
Morning walk around the Capitol on the last day of the legislative session.
I spent more time up here than in any previous year. I’m not a lobbyist. Nobody pays me to be up here so my observations are my own. (1/3)
I spent more time up here than in any previous year. I’m not a lobbyist. Nobody pays me to be up here so my observations are my own. (1/3)
March 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Morning walk around the Capitol on the last day of the legislative session.
I spent more time up here than in any previous year. I’m not a lobbyist. Nobody pays me to be up here so my observations are my own. (1/3)
I spent more time up here than in any previous year. I’m not a lobbyist. Nobody pays me to be up here so my observations are my own. (1/3)
Utah Democrats using their platform:
February 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Utah Democrats using their platform:
Active day up on the hill.
February 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Active day up on the hill.
Our high-rise holiday gathering is a 4-course progressive community dinner where we mix and mingle at different units for 3-4 hours. And yeah, there's like 6 units for sale currently so won't you be my neighbor?
December 5, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Our high-rise holiday gathering is a 4-course progressive community dinner where we mix and mingle at different units for 3-4 hours. And yeah, there's like 6 units for sale currently so won't you be my neighbor?
Downtown SLC tonight
December 1, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Downtown SLC tonight