Tom Merrill
@SaltLakeTom
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Utah health policy | Healthy built environment | former Downtown Community Council | x-LeavittPartners | Principal @RedstoneSLC
Salt Lake City, Utah
Joined March 2012
Main Street, bar row update: Whiskey Street is almost fully cleared out with some roof beams. London Belle appears to be untouched. Maybe insurance issues/forensic work preventing progress?
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Bigotry against me for being pro-LGBTQ and then bigotry against that guy for being LDS. Maybe we should just not engage in bigotry?
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However, I’ve come to understand that most Utah conservatives that claim to be originalists aren’t actually originalists. They just like the idea of the law being what it was back when the constitution was ratified which is not how Originalism works obviously. (2/2)
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The constitutional scholar Akhil Amar convinced me that Originalism was neither a conservative nor liberal approach to interpreting our founding docs. So despite transitioning to the Democratic party, I still very much identify as an originalist. (1/2)
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Instead of “alliance,” we should just start using the word “confederation” to really drive home that we are reverting to a pre-1789 era where the union is weak af in all the ways that matter.
NEW — @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom and 14 other Governors are launching the Governors Public Health Alliance, a new non-partisan hub coordinating public health leadership across the country. The Alliance will strengthen emergency preparedness, improve communication, share data and
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Interim Transportation Committee and UDOT is reporting on their review of Salt Lake City’s street redesigns (or “lane reductions”). First comment from Dir. Braceras is that the City was a great partner in the study.
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Something that’s way too common in SLC elections: the challenger has to pretend like the city is falling apart & they’ll be the savior. Then the election ends & they have to defend the city against outrageous claims they helped perpetuate. Maybe just lead with your vision?
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Big fan of originalism. Textualism not so much.
Gov. Spencer Cox nominated District Judge John Nielsen, a self-described legal ‘originalist,’ to be the Utah Supreme Court's next justice.
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Also, that the two biggest Trump sycophants are both LDS will never make sense to me.
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Why doesn’t @SenMikeLee just join the executive already so we can have a senator that actually believes in the constitutional separation of powers?
Interesting tidbit in today's @playbookdc: Mike Lee is the most-aligned senator with the Trump White House, per a new scorecard. Fellow BYU grad Andy Biggs is the top-ranked House member.
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This is the place!
“When Brigham Young came into the valley, he pointed to where the University of Utah would be and said, ‘This is the place.’ Provo was just an afterthought.” - Ron McBride
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A rare moment of ideological bi-partisanship in U.S. media. I think we are going to see more of this. https://t.co/qlU5O4G73w
npr.org
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the...
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An obviously alarming culture emerging from some young Republicans but also I’m encouraged that their leaders are uniformly condemning it. More of that please.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
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As a fellow Texas transplant, I want to tell this man that there are easier ways to assimilate into Utah culture.
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