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Robert Gehrke is the paper's senior state government reporter. He has been reporting since 1998 and returned to Utah in June 2007 after spending nearly seven years covering the federal government in Washington, D.C. His work with public records includes ongoing work on the Crandall Canyon coal mine disaster. Previously, he has obtained the investigative report on the disappearance of a U.S. Marine in Iraq, reported on sexual assaults at the U.S. Air Force Academy, investigated conflicts of interest at the Department of Interior and others. His first GRAMA was for health inspection reports at the cafeteria at the University of Utah. He has not eaten there since. Public records show he is married with two children. You can reach him at gehrke@sltrib.com or 257-8730. |
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Matt Canham joined the Tribune's D.C. bureau in August 2007. He formerly was a state government/growth reporter, covering the Legislature, elections and the U.S. Census. He previously was on the police beat. You can reach him at 202-662-8925 or mcanham@sltrib.com |
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Jeremiah Stettler snoops into Salt Lake County politics for the Tribune. He also has dabbled in criminal justice and environmental reporting, most recently from the Saginaw News in central Michigan. Among his earliest open-records exploits came in Logan when fighting for disciplinary records filed against a power department employee. Stettler won the records — and this compliment from the city’s mayor: “"You always go for the nose, don't you? jstettler@sltrib.com |
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Matthew D. LaPlante is The Tribune’s national security reporter. His first fight with government censorship came when the principal of his elementary school authorized the destruction of a student newspaper containing an article he had co-written with another third-grader about a teacher’s strike. Since then, he’s engaged in numerous battles with local, state and national government officials, fighting for sunshine without prejudice: He once sent an open records request to his own father, a public school district official in California. That case is pending. mlaplante@sltrib.com |
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Nate Carlisle Nate Carlisle has covered crime and public safety at The Tribune since 2005. His first fight for records came in 2000 when he was a student at the University of Missouri and an instructor assigned him to obtain six months of autopsy reports from the local medical examiner. The examiner called the editor of the school newspaper to complain, but Carlisle got the records. He can be reached at 257-8794 or ncarlisle@sltrib.com |
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Dan Harrie is The Tribune's news editor for federal/state politics and government. He also is an adjunct instructor of journalism at the University of Utah. In both roles he is a vocal advocate of using GRAMA and FOIA to spring the lid on secret government documents. Harrie was involved in a Tribune fight to preserve and open then-Gov. Mike Leavitt's emails and, more recently, successfully argued to open records on bids for government contracts. He can be reached at 257-8793 or dharrie@sltrib.com.
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