Handel’s Messiah: A Pocono Tradition This year marks the 39th performance of Handel’s Messiah at the Shawnee Playhouse. I started practicing law at the firm in 1986 and, shortly thereafter, began performing in the Orchestra as principal oboist. Quite candidly, I was...
We Have No Tolerance for Distracted Drivers–Save the Texting for Later Although many people know not to text while driving, it does not seem to have stopped them. It is a significant public safety issue. I had a recent eye doctor appointment and, although there was a...
Pedestrian Injuries in Monroe County PA The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) reports that almost 5000 pedestrians die each year in motor vehicle accidents. Sadly, the number of deaths has been increasing. The 2016 national data shows that pedestrian...
Shareholder Jerry Geiger was recognized for 30 years of service by the County Commissioners’ Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP) at its annual conference in Hershey, PA on November 21, 2017. Attorney Geiger has been representing Counties in eastern...
How artists came up with a solution to reverse the increase in pedestrian deaths. Eastern Pennsylvania and Monroe County have had far too many pedestrians seriously injured or killed by motor vehicles in the past few years.The question is what to do about it. The...
PennDOT no longer issues vehicle registration stickers. But what to do with the ones already on the license plate? PennDOT just posted this notice on its Facebook page: “You don’t have to remove your old registration sticker from your license plate – law enforcement...
Judicial Review of a Broken Funding Scheme On September 28, 2017, in William Penn School District v. Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided it had the authority and duty to decide whether Pennsylvania’s school funding scheme is so broken it violates the...
Federal Court in Wilkes-Barre Stops School from Disciplining Cheerleader for Off-campus Speech Yesterday, federal District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo issued a preliminary injunction forbidding the Mahanoy School District from punishing one of its cheerleaders for...
PennDOT announces 3rd Round Open House Meeting on December 5, 2017 PennDOT advises that it will hold a third round open house for the I-80 Reconstruction Project at the Stroudsburg High School on December 5, 2017 from 5-7 p.m. The public meeting will be an open house...
14th Amendment Requires Schools to Protect High School football players from concussion injuries On September 21, 2017, the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals filed a precedential opinion ruling that high school football players have a constitutional right to be protected...
