On August 24, 2016, a text arrived from John Pacylowski, sadly the last time I heard from him. He was distraught. I know this because we hopped on a call as soon as the text arrived. John learned that Don Reuwer, a Howard County developer, bought the once condemned Burgess building, in distress, from the Burgess…

This blog was updated on January 3, 2023, to remove redundant content. Redundancy prevents sites from being crawled by google, thus allowing content to become popular in the search engine results. Why didn’t the local government do more earlier to prevent flooding? They possessed studies from years before the 1000-year flood that the city was…