Opinion: Denver needs a better plan for fixing its awful sidewalks
A couple weeks before our Denver election, and I’m fighting hard to get Denver Deserves Sidewalks (Initiative 307) passed. It’ll build out our sidewalk network, which Denver sorely needs. First time publishing with the Sun, what an easy process! I hope you enjoy this short op-ed!
Originally published in the Colorado Sun, October 27, 2022
Op-Ed: The Safety Stop, Coming to a Street Near You
A new law got passed in Colorado allowing cyclists to treat stop signs as yields, and stop lights as stop signs. Every lick of data we have suggests this is a safety gain without giving anything up. Here’s to hoping this law decreases deaths and collisions here in Denver and Colorado overall!
Originally published in Westword, April 10, 2022
Pollinator Highways: Driving Invertebrate Recovery
Bugs, bugs, bugs. We don’t seem to care for them, but we surely need them. I wrote this piece about a somewhat inventive policy alternative to help take care of the insects that take care of us.
Originally published the Cornell Policy Review, November 28, 2020
Op-Ed: I'm Willing to Take a Risk to Help Protect My Community
This is a little piece I wrote and published in the Denver magazine Westword about my willingness to partake in a Human Challenge Trial. I used the same picture I used in another article in “Opinions,” get over it.
Originally published in Westword, September 13, 2020
Moving the Needle: Colorado and the Opioid Crisis
Near and dear to my heart, this piece. I used to work for the Criminal Court of Denver, and seeing how these drugs (among others, chiefly Meth) have hurt this community is heartbreaking. Luckily, there is sensible policy going around, so check it out!
Originally published in the Cornell Policy Review, May 18, 2020
Flood on Their Hands: How the Trade War Has Failed Rural America
This is the first time I realized I could add images within the text instead of at the end of CPR pieces…thanks editors! The piece itself is about an interesting relationship between disastrous flooding (which will become more severe during our lifetimes, unfortunately), and bad trade policy.
Originally published in the Cornell Policy Review, April 13, 2020
For Forests’ Sake: Positive Feedback Loops and Budget Mismanagement
This is (what I think to be) an interesting take on why forest fires are becoming more damaging in the United States (outside of climate change). Every time the subject of forest fires is brought up, the least informed person in the room talks about how letting a few fires burn every year would reduce the likelihood of massive fires, as if the US Forest Service doesn’t know about fuel reduction. Enjoy! Let me know what you think - this piece tends to be topical every year.
Originally published in the Cornell Policy Review, January 20, 2020
Government Predictability as an Impetus for Corporate Profit and Sustainability
My catchiest title. Here I discuss how regulation - even regulation steadily ratcheting up requirements for business - can actually help those businesses. It may seem counter-intuitive, but let me know your thoughts once you’ve read it.
Originally published in the Cornell Policy Review, November 11, 2019