Alixel Cabrera is a Report for America corps member and writes about communities on the west side of the Salt Lake Valley for The Salt Lake Tribune. She has reported on the economy, energy, food and culture for newspapers and websites in Venezuela and the U.S. Blake Apgar joined The Tribune in March 2022 to cover city and county government. He is a University of Minnesota graduate who started his journalism career in Las Vegas, where he covered breaking news, local government, state politics and the depletion of the Colorado River. He is dad to a Golden Retriever named Woodward.