All of you highly observant, media-savvy readers out there — that is, everyone reading this column — may be aware that something has been missing from this page in the last week or so.
The Salt Lake Tribune is giving up the tradition of endorsing candidates in local, state and national elections. We won’t be giving our editorial support to either of the candidates for the open Salt Lake City mayor’s seat or in any of the other municipal elections that come to a close Nov. 5. Or in any elections after that.
There was a time when I, who has been writing endorsements for (mostly losing) candidates since Walter Mondale, would have been really ticked about that.