Professional Writing, Speaking & Awards

 

Writing

• Contributing Writer for Justworks, Inc.'s website, blog.justworks.com. Articles on payroll and payroll tax issues written for the benefit of employers.

• “Salary Alternatives for Non-Exempt Employees,” PAYTECH: The Official Publication of the American Payroll Association, February–May 2003.

• Taming the Dragon: A Guide to the Pennsylvania Earned Income Tax. Sponsored by Progressive Business Publications, May 2003. Posted on Payroll-Taxes.com under the title Taming the Dragon.

• Contributing Writer for Symmetry Software’s website, Payroll-Taxes.com.

• “Impact Zoning: A Technique for Responsible Land Use Management,” Plan Canada 17(1), March 1977, pp. 48-58. (With John Rahenkamp and Donald Ruggles)

• A Design Manual for User-Oriented Small Company Libraries. Prepared in 1976 as part of the Landscape Architecture Technical Information Series, American Society of Landscape Architects (but never published). Revised in 1996 and distributed by the Software of the Month Club with an accompanying HyperCard stack.

• Impact Zoning: An Introduction and Selected Bibliography. Monticello, Ill.: Council of Planning Librarians, 1976. (Exchange Bibliography #974)

• Directory of Pennsylvania Library Resources: A Guide to the Resources and Services of Academic, Special, and Large Public Libraries. Compiled by Brigitte L. Kenny, Robert W. Ditmer, and Lee Lourea, Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel University. Harrisburg: Bureau of Library Development, State Library of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Department of Eduction, 1973.

 

Speaking Engagements

• The Pennsylvania Earned Income Tax: Clear Up the Confusion and Ensure Compliance. Sponsored by Progressive Business Publications, April 2006.

• Fringe Benefit Reporting: Clearing Up Year End Misconceptions. Sponsored by Progressive Business Publications, October 2003. Focused on specific benefits of group term life insurance, qualified moving expenses, and personal use of employer-provided vehicles.

• Preparing for Year-End Fringe Benefits Reporting and Taxation. Conference sponsored by Progressive Business Publications, November 2002.

• Pennsylvania Earned Income Tax. Pennsylvania Statewide APA Conference, September 2001.

 

Editing

• “Local Land Use Regulations and Plan Processing,” Chapter 4 of Land Development 2 (Washington: National Association of Home Builders, 1981), pp. 137-167.

• Innovative Zoning: A Digest of the Literature. Washington: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1977.

• The Impervious Cover Model - Explanation and Calculations. 3rd ed. Philadelphia: Stetson Press, 1977. (With Roger Wells and Christopher Sobotowski)

• “How to Predict Your Chances of Getting Zoning Approval,” House & Home 50(2), August 1976, pp. 88-91. (With John Rahenkamp and Kate McLeister)

 

Awards

• Recipient of the 2003 Citation of Merit from American Payroll Association for contributions to Membership Publications and advancement of Payroll Profession.

• Editor's Choice Award, Suite101, September 2, 2010, for the article "The Legal Basis for Employee Records Retention."

 

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