Building the Future in Place
Progressive activist and journalist since 1981. Lived in Seattle since 1998, and the Pacific Northwest, aka Cascadia, since 1977.
Solutionary Rail is a people-powered campaign to put American railroads in service of the public interest through rail electrification, shifting freight and people from roads to rail, and using rail corridors to transmit renewable energy.
These posts are meant to inform, enlighten, enable, cut through fog, critique narratives and occasionally make you chuckle.
Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.
The Swallowtail borrows its name inspiration from The Raven on Substack, a publication by Patrick Mazza. I figured, why not name this after some sort of wildlife?