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Utah Stories Contributors
Nicole Anderson
Nicole Anderson is a communication professional and freelance writer. She holds a master’s degree in Strategic Communications from Westminster College and a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Utah. She is a certified Utah Master Naturalist in Wetlands, and has spent many years researching the Great Salt Lake. Anderson co-founded the blog, Summer of Salt, where she spent three summers exploring the shorelines of Great Salt Lake. In 2010, Anderson was commissioned to write, “Patterns of Change” which documented bird and human usage in Bear River Bay, and she later had a role in the 2012 documentary, “Evaporating Shorelines.”
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Anderson teaches intercultural and interpersonal communication at Salt Lake Community College. She has written as a freelance author for ten plus years. Her stories and articles have appeared in Airboating Magazine, Gateway Magazine, Utah Stories, and Utah Life Magazine, among several other print and online publications. Anderson has a passion to protect landscapes and places that cannot speak for themselves.
Del Leonard Jones
During his 18 years in the Money section at USA Today, Del Leonard Jones wrote more cover stories from 1992-2010 than any other reporter. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in beat reporting, and interviewed the leading CEOs of the day, including Bill Gates, Jack Welch, and Donald Trump, long before Trump became president. Del has written two historical novels, At The Bat: The Strikeout That Shamed America, and The Cremation of Sam McGee. At The Bat, based upon the poem Casey at the Bat (as told from the umpire’s point of view) ranks as the Goodreads third best baseball novel of all time. Del was born in Salt Lake, but moved away when he was three-years-old. He returned to the state in 2021.
Del lives in Helper and teaches news writing and journalism ethics at Utah State University. He received a journalism degree from the University of New Mexico, where he was taught journalism ethics by mystery writer Tony Hillerman. Jones received an MBA from the University of Texas at El Paso. Married to Dianna for 37 years, he has two children, Ciera and Doug. He has officiated high school and collegiate sports in softball, basketball and field hockey.
Laurel Dudley
Laurel Dudley is a freelance journalist and has written for Triathlete, Hawaii Business Magazine and Swimmer Magazine, among others. She loves capturing people’s stories, especially those about athletes overcoming adversity.
Previously, Laurel spent 15 years in Hawaii, where she met her husband, and worked in medical device sales. They moved to Ogden Valley in 2021, and although Laurel is happy to return to winter sports (which she did as a kid growing up in Vermont), running and off-road triathlons are still her favorite pursuits.
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Hi Richard,
I am a subscriber to Utah Stories who is very appreciative of the content you provide to residents of SLC, or those who are going to move back in the near future. I grew up in Salt Lake in the 50’s and 60’s until I moved away. There is obviously a draw for me to live there, and I have moved back 5 times in the years after 1969. It makes me sort of sad to see what is happening with the politics there, obviously the homeless situation, the proliferation of the expensive highrise condos and apartments and the control and influence of the LDS Church. It is not quite the same, but I am probably going to give it another try again soon.
I recently subscribed to Salt Lake Magazine and found absolutely nothing of interest to me, or any ordinary citizen for that matter, who lives in or cares about Salt Lake and what is really going on. I would not expect to see a story in Utah Stories about the ballet or the Nutcracker, plus the Salt Lake Magazine is about 80% advertisements and I really dislike that. I know you have ads in your magazine, and I know that it is necessary in order to be able to publish this wonderful publication for free, and I would like to contribute $ to keep it alive after I move back instead of paying for a mail subscription to my home in Oregon where I now live, and can easily find it at Millie’s in Sugarhouse. That is where I first saw Utah Stories on the counter many years ago. I have been eating at Millie’s since high school and it is my first stop whenever I visit. I have had many conversations with the girls there over what has happened to Sugar House (sad), and we agree on the love of Utah Stories.
I called and canceled my Salt Lake Magazine subscription this week, and when asked for the reason, I was blunt. I said that if they wanted to publish an interesting and informative magazine about SLC, they should contact you and your article contributors about how to go about it because you are the voice of local Utah, not just the rich and famous who close their eyes to the real issues going on (such as homelessness). I would like to see you address the issue of tiny home communities, not just for the homeless, and the possible rezoning to make them possible for everyone (without offending the nimby’s) like they are in Portland and all over Oregon. I did like the article about the Other Side Academy.
Sorry for the lengthy email, but I wanted you to know how much I enjoy reading the magazine and listening to your podcasts. I don’t know when my subscription is up for renewal, but I will be re-subscribing when it is if I get a notice.
Marilyn Haslam
In the December issue of Utah Stories we ran a photo of the Newhouse Building in a story about Big Box vs. Local in Ogden. The Newhouse Building is located in Salt Lake City. We apologize for this mistake.
