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  Mayor's Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Anderson and his staff have established policies and initiatives to improve the quality of life for all Salt Lake City residents.
Anderson is a strong supporter of small businesses and is actively engaged in an intense effort to revitalize Salt Lake City's historic Main Street area.
Anderson is a proponent of urban housing projects and mixed-use developments that encourage healthy, walkable communities and which do not perpetuate dependence on the automobile or promote sprawl development.
www.slcgov.com /mayor/bio.htm   (739 words)

  
  Rocky Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson (born 1951) is the current mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Anderson was first elected in 1999 and was reelected in 2003.
Anderson clarified that the comment, intended to be light-hearted, was not directed toward the state or its residents, nor toward the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rocky_Anderson   (999 words)

  
 Rocky fires communications director :: The Daily Herald, Provo Utah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Anderson, who lost three of his top four executives in the first three months in office, denied that he is abusive and said Seed was lashing out because she was fired.
Anderson said he has had to "talk to her on occasion, sometimes when I was very frustrated about her not getting the work done or doing it very sloppily.
Anderson called the allegations regarding The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints outrageous, and said Seed was trying to drive a wedge between him and the church.
old.heraldextra.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=63276   (670 words)

  
 Rocky Anderson Flaunts The Law Again! - The Salt Lake Tribune's TribTalk
Rocky is an ACLU lawyer, and his loyalties obviously reside in that extreme leftist group rather than the people of Salt Lake City.
Rocky believes he is empowered to do this not because the law is on his side, but rather he knows he will not be held legally responsible, just like Gavin Newsom.
The democratic process has spoken, and if Rocky Anderson and others do not like the law they can fight it through the courts, but to simply ignore the law and do something that brazenly goes against it is where he has crossed the line.
www.tribtalk.com /showthread.php?t=532   (1499 words)

  
 Rocky Mountain College Athletics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Rocky sophomore Pete Petry repeated as slalom champion, and he was followed by teammates Scott Anderson and Erik Willborg in the final standings.
Anderson, who is a junior from Rossland, British Columbia, placed 4th in the GS, while Cronk, a sophomore from Boise, Idaho, was 7th in Friday's races on Concentration run.
Anderson and Civitarese, a pair of juniors from British Columbia, were on the Rocky's men's team when it last skied at Sugarloaf in 2004.
athletics.rocky.edu /index.php?topgroupid=7   (4402 words)

  
 Saturday Morning With the Mayor : Utah IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Rocky Anderson was at The Coffee Garden in Sam Weller's on Main St. on Jan. 22nd at 10:00 to 11:00am.
Rocky Anderson was at The Coffee Garden in Sam Weller's on Main St.
Rocky said that this is one of the best jazz festivals in the world and it is all free.
utah.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=9978   (924 words)

  
 Hogan's Interview | Alex Anderson
As animated cousin to Mad, Rocky and Bullwinkle’s paper-thin plotlines and very limited animation were almost incidental to the nonstop inside jokes, painful puns, shameless wordplay and silly satire, all masterfully delivered by the finest voice talent ever assembled.
Rocky, Bullwinkle and Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties were conceived, designed and created in the late 1940s by Ward’s boyhood friend and sometime business partner, advertising artist Alex Anderson.
Anderson: I think one of the reasons it’s still popular is that it turns back the clock to those days when we were young.
cagle.msnbc.com /hogan/interviews/anderson/home.asp   (2037 words)

  
 The Early Years
Ross "Rocky" Anderson was born in Logan, Utah in 1951.
Next to the Anderson home on Shanna Street were several acres of scrub oak, where neighborhood children spent much of their playtime each week in what was to them a veritable forest.
When Rocky was 10 years old, his father was promoted to President of Anderson Lumber Company and transferred to the corporate general office in Ogden.
www.voterocky.com /about-early.html   (458 words)

  
 A paintball pro - March 4, 2005
Rocky Anderson remembers the first time he saw people chasing each other with funny-looking guns that shoot balls of paint instead of bullets.
Cindy Anderson, a hospice nurse, figures she easily spent as much as $1,000 a month on paintballs, markers and protective equipment before her son landed sponsor contracts.
Anderson has his sights set on the top echelon of the pro leagues, where players compete in front of big crowds for prizes that can run to six figures.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/0304/life/stories/01life.htm   (830 words)

  
 The Greening of Salt Lake City by Jenny Brundin - The Globalist > > Global Environment
Rocky Anderson, mayor of Salt Lake City, believed it was a horrible shame that Bush didn't seem to understand or care about the long-term ramifications of not signing the Kyoto Protocol.
Anderson promised a scoop of ice cream to every person in the packed shop who signed a pledge to use their cars less, recycle more, and replace their regular light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescents.
Anderson says he's just doing his part in what is fast becoming a global movement.
www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4569   (1478 words)

  
 In Utah, an Opponent of the ‘Culture of Obedience’ - New York Times
Anderson, a 55-year-old lapsed Mormon and former civil litigator with a rich baritone and a mane of patrician-silver hair, is no stranger to strong talk and political stances that leave his audiences breathless with exasperation, admiration or sometimes a mixture of both.
Anderson cheerfully conceded in an interview in his office that he had no hope whatsoever of a statewide political future in Utah because people outside Salt Lake City — who are far more likely to be conservative, Republican and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — are likely to hate him.
Anderson — whose given name is Ross but who is known by almost everyone here as Rocky, with no last name necessary — is genuinely passionate and devoted to the causes he has brought to the mayor’s office, including global warming, genocide in Darfur, gay and lesbian rights and the war in Iraq.
www.nytimes.com /2007/03/22/us/22rocky.html?ex=1332216000&en=a057d5bf2fc618db&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (953 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- Salt Lake mayor's anti-war stance reverberates beyond conservative Utah
Anderson, 53, has poked at Bush before, too, chiding the president for opting out of the Kyoto treaty to reduce greenhouses gases.
Anderson was elected in 2003 to a second term in office with 54 percent of the vote.
Yet Anderson's supporters are among the "most committed and dedicated" of any in the state, said Kirk Jowers, director of the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20050824-0156-saltlake-mayor.html   (782 words)

  
 Canku Ota - Dec.30, 2000 - Rocky Pins Down His Olympic Message
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson has an important message and a space only the size of a quarter on which to present it.
Anderson says he has been familiar with Nez's work for some time, having met him a few years ago at the annual Native American in the Park Day several years ago.
Anderson's policy-makers are determining procedures for passing out the pins, who has the authority to give them away and who will receive them.
www.turtletrack.org /Issues00/Co12302000/CO_12302000_Rocky.htm   (651 words)

  
 Truthdig - Reports - Truthdigger of the Week: Mayor Ross ‘Rocky’ Anderson
Rocky Anderson is your typical arrogant and condescending liberal - like a lot of people here - and he does little to mask his contempt for people who are religious.
Rocky tells it like it is. Mayor D had the dictator come in for his dictator birthday and put up an event tent to the restaurant entrance so pesty protestors would not disturb his larger than all that exists ego.
Rocky would like to see Utah as big as LA only with just one or two freeways, for some reason stalled cars and continual gridlock, as long as we have our light rail and commuter rail, is the best thing for the environment.
www.truthdig.com /report/item/20060901_truthdigger_rocky_anderson   (5722 words)

  
 Rocky Anderson Flaunts The Law Again! - Page 5 - The Salt Lake Tribune's TribTalk
And while Anderson defended the bills this week as necessary functions of his job, both bills put him in violation of city policy, which forbids using city funds to purchase alcoholic beverages.
I am pointing out Rocky Anderson's logical fallacy that somehow buying alcohol for his buddies is going to dispell myths that Salt Lake is a squeaky clean city.
I think Rocky is a breath of fresh air in attempting to make Salt Lake bridge the distance of being 20 years behind other major cities its size.
www.tribtalk.com /showthread.php?t=532&page=5&pp=10   (801 words)

  
 Rocky Anderson, Folk Hero?
Anderson is surrounded by extremely intelligent, idealistic and, it has to be said, adoring people.
Anderson spent more than thirty hours endlessly writing and rewriting the speech that he planned to deliver as a counter to the presence of Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and President Bush at the American Legion convention at the Salt Lake Palace.
Rocky Anderson raised his right fist in the air, a slightly relieved smile on his face, and stood in front of the crowd.
www.thenation.com /doc/20060918/abramsky   (748 words)

  
 StandardNET -> Poll: Rocky Anderson, Legacy Pkwy. & Davis Leaders
Anderson was just stating his strongly held opinions -- no offensive language.
Rocky can spout his hateful rhetoric all he wants and I'll just stop patronizing his city and its businesses.
Rocky is really starting to sound French!!! We hate you but bring your money and spend it with us, and then GET OUT!!! We will insult you and scorn you but thats OK we're right and your wrong.
forums.standard.net /index.php?showtopic=29   (1891 words)

  
 OnPoint -- 02/06/2006 -- Energy Policy: Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson (D) discusses his city's environmental ...
Rocky Anderson: The number one problem facing our world and every city in the world is climate change.
Rocky Anderson: Well I think the important thing in terms of what the cities do, we can make a real difference, we've cut down greenhouse gas emissions by about 23,000 tons per year.
Rocky Anderson: Well I wish we had the waste issue resolved because if you could have nuclear power and knew what you were going to do with the most toxic materials known to our world, then it would make a lot of sense.
www.eande.tv /transcripts/?date=020606   (2314 words)

  
 Latest News - The Other Rocky
Anderson has restructured the city's criminal justice system and, suspicious of the tenets of the war on drugs, thrown the Just Say No DARE program out of the city's schools.
When Anderson contacted him, Gill, originally from Chandragar, India, was a deputy DA for Salt Lake County and had built a reputation for thinking outside the box when it came to sensible punishments for criminal defendants.
Rocky Anderson will likely never attain national office; but perhaps his most important legacy will be showing the country that voters, in some places, do make lofty choices when presented with truly inspiring candidates.
www.november.org /stayinfo/breaking06/OtherRocky.html   (2404 words)

  
 Save Rocky
Rocky is a success because of his will to live and because of those who've come together to support him.
Rocky came to the Humane Society in early December with little more than his will to survive and a pre-historic urge to play ball.
Save Rocky goes beyond Rocky himself… it stands for an intolerance for animal cruelty and neglect, and it stands for a desire to be merciful and compassionate to the pets for which we, as a community, are responsible.
www.saverocky.org   (1628 words)

  
 Salt Lake City to Torino: The Team
Before being elected in 1999 to his first term as Mayor of Salt Lake City, Rocky Anderson was a community activist and practicing attorney working on issues relating to civil and human rights, youth development, access to health care, and environmental protection.
Mayor Anderson hopes the journey to deliver his message of peace, health, and justice to the people of Torino, Italy will help to educate people around the world about what we can do to create a more peaceful, healthy, and just planet.
Rocky received a Bachelor of Science degree from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
www.slc2torino.com /pages/team.htm   (1619 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The two came together, Anderson at the podium and Briggs sometimes making himself well known in the crowd at a rally Anderson had called to oppose North Salt Lake’s request to have about 80 acres it owns de-annexed from Salt Lake City.
In fact, Anderson called for a condemnation proceeding to be started for the property, which some in his city are calling the last vestige of open space — complete with its panoramic view overlooking Salt Lake City.
Wednesday, Anderson proposed rezoning a pivotal 13 acres of the parcel, purchasing it for $51,000.
www.clippertoday.com /print_this_story.asp?smenu=1&sdetail=9082   (582 words)

  
 Continuum, Fall 2000
Anderson's college friends recall him as a dedicated, hard-working student who knew what direction he wanted his life to take.
Anderson's moral compass was set during his time at the U, a result of the times as much as anything.
Anderson is proud of the changes his law practice wrought: the eventual banning of strip searches of women brought to the county jail on minor charges, the elimination of the use of restraint chairs at the state prison, beginning the fight in the state legislature for campaign finance reform and lobby disclosure.
www.alumni.utah.edu /continuum/fall00/mayor.htm   (1344 words)

  
 Beehive Donkey: Rocky Anderson, antiwar activist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Above is a link to the article in the Salt Lake Tribune covering Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's calls to protestors to show up for the President's address to the VFW here.
Also...I think if Rocky truly feels this is an immoral war, then he not only has a right, but he has an obligation to say something.
If the answer is "no, that would be different," then your issue is not with his right to voice his protest, but is a disagreement with him about the particular issue he is protesting.
beehivedonkey.org /2005/08/rocky-anderson-antiwar-activist.html   (654 words)

  
 Anderson Pulls Plug On DARE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Still, Anderson and his staff prepared a slide show and fact sheet and weathered a small crowd of indignant PTA presidents, parents and program employees in a futile effort to convince City Council members Tuesday night that he is doing the right thing.
In Utah, Anderson notes, the Centers for Disease Control found marijuana use among teens had increased from 7 percent to 11 percent since 1991 and cocaine use went up from 5 percent to 7 percent.
Anderson sent Salt Lake City School Board members the same information he presented to council members.
www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v00.n970.a01.html   (508 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Salt Lake mayor a part of D.C. march
Anderson, also a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and of President Bush, spoke at a rally following the march and echoed the rally's main mantra, calling for the impeachment of the president and of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Anderson made almost identical remarks during a similar rally held in front of the U.S. Capitol in January, leading the crowd in a chant of "No More!" as he listed various acts he — and the crowd of thousands — would like to see stopped.
Sheehan said she knows Anderson is harshly criticized by some residents of Salt Lake City and Utah for his participation in such events.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,660204308,00.html   (777 words)

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