Insights & Issue Advocacy

Op-eds, research papers, and the policy fixes they point to. Each one starts with the reading and ends with something a town or a legislature could actually do.

Concept sketch of a red-barn food market under maples on the Minnesota prairie (AI-generated)

OP-ED · FOOD FREEDOM

Food Freedom in Wyoming

Wyoming lets neighbors sell homemade food from a real storefront. Minnesota doesn’t. What would it take to open one in Independence?

Cover of the Community Housing Summit Community Engagement Report, prepared for the City of Fort Collins by the CSU Center for Public Deliberation

QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS · CSU CPD

Community Housing Summit

A community engagement report prepared for the City of Fort Collins by the CSU Center for Public Deliberation. Qualitative data analysis by Patrick McCabe.

Cast-iron lacework on a terrace house, Australia

RESEARCH · SYDNEY · 2025

Urban and Social Planning

A semester spent on one question: who do preservation and public space actually end up serving? The terrace was never saved for the people it was built for.

High school trap shooting, 2022

TERM PAPER · 2022

What Is the Second Amendment?

Tracing the constitutional history of the Second Amendment through the Supreme Court’s own words.