Editor's Notes: Decades of doom ahead in Poconos?
We used to live near the Poconos and vacationed there. Here's a link sent by Nancy Levy that predicts a grim future, courtesy of overdevelopment. Thousands of new homes built as "resorts sell out to developers," students added to the school districts, tax hikes, inadequate infrastructure, rising crime...everything but a plague of locusts. I hope he's wrong, but it's worth reading as a parable for communities facing a high rate of new residential construction.

This is a far-reaching column that could be summed up by writing: "The Poconos appears doomed." Not doomed for eternity, perhaps, but certainly for decades...