Washington Free Beacon
I’m currently a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon in Washington, D.C. You can view all of my articles for the Free Beacon here. Below are some of my favorites.
- “Mr. Tea Party” – March 26, 2013
- “Chavistas in Mourning” – March 11, 2013
- “Transparency Tripped Up“
- “FISA Fight“
- “Fill ‘er up: Soros, T. Boone pull up to the subsidy pump” – Feb. 8, 2012
Freelancin’
- “Secrets of the NYPD” – Salon, May 8, 2013
- “The nearly astonishing tale of Bill Warren, treasure seeker” – The Awl, December 6, 2012
- “All the buzz that’s fit to print” – Conspire, September 18, 2012
- “Student sues University of Idaho over firearms ban” - The Daily Caller, January 28, 2011
- “Bound by the First Amendment” - Oregon Quarterly, Summer 2010 issue
- “Concealed Carry on Campus” - The Weekly Standard, May 5, 2010
- “Senators sound X-ray airport alarm, call for new radiation health-risk study” – The Daily Caller, Feb. 1, 2012
The Daily Caller
From June 2011 to January 2012 I was a reporter for The Daily Caller in Washington, D.C., where I covered politics and whatever floated my boat. A full list of my articles is here. Below are some of my better articles.
- “From the streets to the governor’s mansion, Paul LePage embraces fiscal conservatism for survival” – July 25, 2011
- “Democrats drub GOP in Congressional baseball game; baseball loses” – July 15, 2011
- “The government’s war on cameras” – July 8, 2011
- “Planes, trains and automobiles: TSA’s ever-expanding jurisdiction” – June 27, 2011
- “As goes the economy, so goes Ohio?” – June 17, 2011
- “TSA blocks private airport screeners” – June 14, 2011
San Diego Union-Tribune
From June 2010 through June 2011 I was a Collegiate Network fellow at the San Diego Union-Tribune, where I covered the north county area. You can see a full list of my articles here, but here’s my best work:
- “Helping foster youth get to college” – April 7, 2011
- “Spine surgery – He wrote the book” – March 24, 2011
- “Youth movement making music in San Marcos” – February 19, 2011
- “On the job at Tri-City for 50 years” – February 17, 2011
- “Help Wanted: Sign advertising job — showmanship required” – December 11, 2010
- “He might have a Tasmanian Tiger by the $70,000 pelt” – November 3, 2010
- “Fall rush: Julian bakeries brace for apple pie frenzy” – October 17, 2010
- “Valley Center Planning Board is hot ticket this election year” – September 30, 2010
- “Beagle lost for six months returned to family” – September 29, 2010
- “High School students prep for college” – August 13, 2010
- “Valley Center project delayed” – August 6, 2010
- “Tri-City reports nearly $10.5 million loss for June” – August 1, 2010
- “Artist’s goal: 101 scenes of Highway 101” – July 18, 2010
- “Tri-City trustees sanction one member” – July 15, 2010
- “Plug is pulled on First Night” – July 2, 2010
Oregon Daily Emerald
From fall of 2009 through spring of 2010, I was the higher education reporter for the Oregon Daily Emerald, the daily newspaper at the University of Oregon. I wrote three to six articles a week, ranging from profiles to pieces on the state higher education budget. Out of the 72 articles I wrote, here’s some of my best work:
- “Collegiate Gender Gap Stable For Now” – January 29, 2010
- “Student Protests Continue to Disrupt Forum” – January 19, 2010
- “Professors Scientific Contributions Remembered” – October 29, 2009
- “Renamed Cheesy Griller Angers Students” – October 21, 2009
- “Dominating The Debate” – October 19, 2009
- “Professor Fights State Over Records Manual” – October 2, 2009
(The “Cheesy Griller” article is probably my favorite thing that I have ever written. It’s a serious news story about a grilled cheese sandwich.)
The Weekly Standard
During the summer of 2009, I was an intern at The Weekly Standard, where I blogged about Second Amendment issues and assisted Executive Editor Fred Barnes. I continued to occasionally write for the website until I started at the Union-Tribune. Here is a list of my posts:
- “Supreme Court Leans Toward Incorporation of Second Amendment” – March 3, 2010
- “Federal Courts Strike Again on Concealed Carry” – January 4, 2010
- “Federal Judge Rules Concealed Carry is Cause for Detention” – December 23, 2009
- “Petitioners File Brief in Chicago Handgun Ban Challenge” – November 17, 2009
- “Supreme Court to Rule on Chicago Handgun Ban Challenge” – September 30, 2009
- “Demand for Concealed Carry Inexplicably Up Since Obama Election” – September 4, 2009
- “WaPo Discovers It’s Still Really Hard to Get a Handgun in D.C.” – September 2, 2009
- “D.C. Handgun Law Challenged Again” – September 2, 2009
- “Road Rules: Union Edition” – August 31, 2009
- “MSNBC Crops Out the Truth” – August 20, 2009
- “College Credit for Pushing Obama’s Agenda” – August 17, 2009
- “All I Have Is a Story and an Experience” – July 22, 2009
- “How High’s The Water, Mama” – July 21, 2009
Oregon Commentator
I was a member of the Oregon Commentator, a student-run journal of opinion at the University of Oregon, from the spring of 2007 through summer 2009, where I started as a staff writer and worked my way up to editor-in-chief. In addition to writing articles for the magazine, I became a primary contributor to the publication’s award-winning blog. During my tenure, the Oregon Commentator took 2nd place in the America’s Future Foundation College Blogger Contest two years in a row. Here’s a few of my best blog posts:
- “Keep The ODE Independent” – March 4, 2009
- “The Whole, Ugly Scoop on OSPIRG” – February 12, 2009
- “Non-Student Swipes $64,050 of Student Money for Hair Show” – August 7, 2008
- “Loaded Orygun Endorses, Undermines John Kroger for State AG” – February 14, 2008
- “Meth Is Coming For Your Kids!” – July 31, 2007
CAMPUS Magazine Online
I was the blog editor of CAMPUS Magazine Online, a publication of The Collegiate Network, between fall of 2008 and spring 2009. I blogged about higher education and First Amendment issues. A complete list of my posts can be found here, and here’s a few of my favorites:
- “On The Importance of Newspapers” – March 28, 2009
- “Columbia University Abusing Eminent Domain” – February 12, 2009
- “Will This Be Covered In The Next Stylebook?” – January 2, 2009
Oregon Catalyst
I did a couple guest blog posts for Oregon Catalyst, an Oregon political blog, back in 2008:
- “Moving Company Sues State for Enforcing ‘Protectionist Advantage‘”- June 5, 2008
- “Quantifying Liberal Bias at the University of Oregon” – May 6, 2008
