Wes Long

A new millennium dawned upon the world during City Weekly’s 16th year, and with it came beginnings and endings of all kinds.

I attended a meeting for the Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (UCAN) in preparation for a Sept. 20 cover story in City Weekly, “Giving Peace a Chance.”

In a fresh and shiny new century, a future Salt Lake City was taking shape.

Ten years after moving to weekly publication, John Saltas noted on May 30, 2002, that with 26 employees, scores of freelancers and distribution drivers and printing 60,000 papers every week, “we’re quite content just the way things are. Outside of not having Deedee Corradini to kick around anymore, that is.”

In the midst of his Feb. 3 column in 2005, City Weekly poobah-turned-flightmaster John Saltas was finding it wise to “let the column just write itself.”

While the issues addressed (invented?) during a session are legion, consider one subject in this world of limited resources and unbounded greed: namely, the issue of energy.

McMansions were multiplying, the air was atrocious, global warming was still being debated and the infamous “Zion Curtain” first arose in local restaurants to shield impressionable eyes from sight of demon drink

Change was in the air for the state and the country during City Weekly’s 25th year.

“I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).

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