From Deseret News archives:
Rocky touts Salt Lake's accomplishments
Mayor offers few new initiatives in his state of the city speech
From there, Anderson embarked on a 55-minute speech that espoused the mayor's opinions on a broad spectrum of global and local issues, but contained few new initiatives.
Anderson first discussed global warming, saying the world "stands at the brink of environmental catastrophe from global warming" and that global warming could "spell the end of much of the ski industry."
Next, the mayor moved to big boxes and Wal-Mart.
"We must all understand the damage the Wal-Marts of our nation have done to local communities and their locally-owned businesses and the way in which taxpayers often end up subsidizing their low wages and lack of decent benefits, including health care coverage," he said.
The mayor's comments ran counter to his 2003 state of the city speech, in which he welcomed Wal-Mart's new Supercenter to the city. That store opened this summer.
"A Wal-Mart store will be built near 300 West and 1300 South," Anderson said in 2003. "When completed, the store will allow west-side residents reasonably priced, convenient shopping options."
Tuesday, the mayor said local governments can work to effectively stop Wal-Mart. In Chicago, he said, Wal-Mart gave up a planned store after an ordinance was passed that would have required the store to pay a living wage.
Anderson then turned to other elected officials in Utah, like those who don't preserve open space. Anderson mentioned two Davis County plans North Salt Lake City's desire to develop 80 acres in Salt Lake City's foothills and the Legacy Parkway, which he said would "asphalt over open spaces," increase suburban sprawl, waste tax dollars and increase pollution.
"Those elected officials . . . who pursue the destruction, rather than the preservation, of open spaces betray the responsibility they have as stewards for the future," Anderson said.
The mayor added: "We want our friends from the north to come to Salt Lake City; we just don't want them to increase our city's traffic, further foul our air, undermine the quality of our lives and make us sick simply because of the choices they make about where they live and how they get around."
Anderson also decried elected officials who politicize sexual orientation and religious affiliation.
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