Policy, Philosophy & Thoughts

Transportation policy is housing policy, labor policy, air-quality policy, and disability policy. The way we design movement through our communities determines who has access to opportunity and who gets left behind. Infrastructure should be designed around people, not just cars or political ribbon-cuttings. Good infrastructure expands freedom. It determines whether someone can get to work, whether a senior can reach a grocery store, whether a person with a disability can navi

Housing and homelessness are the same pipeline viewed at different points in time. Housing affordability is the upstream pressure. Homelessness is what happens when that pressure finally breaks for people with the least margin for error— seniors on fixed incomes, disabled residents, veterans, families crushed by medical debt, young people priced out of a first apartment, and people fleeing domestic violence with nowhere safe to land. My position starts with two simple premise

Utah is facing a real housing affordability crisis. Housing touches everything— family stability, mental health, workforce mobility, and whether the next generation can realistically build a life in the communities they grew up in. I reject the false choice between growth and community. Good housing policy has to be locally informed, infrastructure-aware, and centered on people rather than speculation. Housing should be homes first and investment vehicles second. I support ex

Libraries are civic infrastructure. They are community anchors, knowledge commons, and engines of opportunity. For generations of kids— myself included— they were places where curiosity was encouraged and where knowledge opened doors that the world around you might not. ​ I’m part of the Reading Rainbow generation. I grew up in a culture that understood something simple but powerful: books are not something to fear. Knowledge is power. ​ Unfortunately, Utah’s libraries have b

​ Education is the single most important investment a society can make. Literacy is the foundation everything else depends on— economic mobility, civic participation, workforce readiness, and the ability to think critically in a world full of noise, manipulation, and bad faith. ​ Utah’s real education crisis is not what books exist in libraries. It is that far too many of our students are still not reading at grade level. That reality should reshape our priorities. If lawmake