“Hey! My best friend’s uncle’s neighbor’s brother-in-law was a surveyor!” Any surveyor who has spent any time in the field has heard a…
Category: Column
03.24.2024
Bad Backsights: Spring Interrogatory
There are always more questions than answers. This seems to be a universal law and it certainly holds true in my experience. Every…
03.24.2024
Vantage Point: Read the Deed!
When my husband and I sat down to sign closing papers to buy our current house, I asked to see the deed before…
01.29.2024
From the Editor: Extraterrestrials?
No, not the marvelous monuments in the sky we call GPS. Rather the ones responsible for the crop circles that have appeared all…
01.29.2024
Bad Backsights: Estates Sales & Moonlighting
Last month Laurie and I were driving through Carmichael or maybe it was Fair Oaks, on the way into Sacramento when…
01.29.2024
Vantage Point: La-la-la, I Can’t Hear You!
Sometimes it seems the biggest job we have is helping clients recognize what it is that they really need, which is not always…
11.01.2023
Guest Editorial: Surveying for a Sustainable Future
Energy transformation is in the process of forever changing the landscape of New York State. And the reality is surveying is the basis…
11.01.2023
Bad Backsights: Potpourri
Why I Love the Profession of Surveying I’ve been surveying since 1980 when I was 19 years old. I’ve been very fortunate in…
11.01.2023
Everything is Somewhere: A Few Words in Favor of Libertarian Ideals
I read Carl C. de Baca’s (PLS) August 2023 column, Anatomy of a Conspiracy, with great interest and approval which perhaps is no…
11.01.2023
Vantage Point: Reauthorizing the NFIP: 2023 Edition
Over the last seven years, Congress has issued 25 short-term reauthorizations of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), hindering the program’s stability. As…
