Category: Column

03.03.2020

Vantage Point: The Loss of a Quiet Hero

The two weeks before Thanksgiving brought sad news of the loss of two great people. One is well known through his national prominence…

01.25.2020

Hopefully, you should be able to finish the statement above. The same is true here at the magazine. I’m pleased to announce that…

01.25.2020

Back in February 2018 I introduced readers to a Philadelphian who had argued that his use of a parcel and the City’s failure…

12.18.2019

The ultimate judicial function of a surveyor is to help maintain a stable society through artistic measuring of land boundaries. Our most valuable…

12.18.2019

We crave fast digital access no matter where we are. We have even come to expect it to the extent that I’ve seen…

11.14.2019

It looks like the EU’s civilian operated Galileo constellation recently had a few hiccups and measuring this big old ball is still proving…

11.14.2019

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11.14.2019

The title of this month’s article was my reaction on reading a case early this summer that was decided by the Stark County…

11.14.2019

There is a trend that was addressed in this column about two years ago, but that deserves another look since it is a…

10.05.2019

Are we putting too much stock in “the map” and not enough in “the information”? We seem to do that with the earliest…