Category: Vantage Point

I recently watched a movie called “Rose Island” that sparked my curiosity. The plot is based on the true story of an Italian…

Author’s note: The following is a lightly—but only lightly!—fictionalized version of true events. It was a real argument, and my closing salvo was…

The urge was strong to call this “No Exit,” but remembrances of Jean Paul Sartre’s play of the same name about a hellish…

Not long after earning my first surveying license, one of the other party chiefs in the company we both worked for felt inspired…

Before diving in, here is one welcome bit of news that is truly new, announced in a FEMA Bulletin issued March 30, 2020….

When trying to keep dry, elevation means everything. When trying to show a site is likely to remain dry during a 1% annual…

In college, my friends and I loved listening to a spoof called “The Never-Ending Traffic Circle” by Firesign Theater about a driver who…

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

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