There are always more questions than answers. This seems to be a universal law and it certainly holds true in my experience. Every…
Category: Column
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…
11.01.2023
Reconnaissance: The State of the Surveying Profession, Part IV
Fall 2023
In this our fourth edition of the “State of the Surveying Profession” we start with some questions. What really are the surveyor demographics…
