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Updated July 21, 2010

2010

• Citizens of Leisure: Pass the Smokes and Jerky

• Beleaguered Postal Service Rides A Snail Into The Sunset

• A Tribute to Real Tomatoes and Mom's Bloody Mary Mix

• Politicians Have a Poor Record of Managing Toll Road

• Performance of Public Schools Just Doesn't Add Up 180-day school year

• Ignorance of Human Nature is Criminal  Prison overcrowding

• NCAA Misses the Point in Caring for Injured Athletes

2009

• Moving Mountains: As Humans, We Alter the Landscape

• Paley Sculpture Highlights Clay Center's Art World Status

• Chrysler Looks Better in the Rearview Mirror  Fiat-Chrysler merger

• Granite State's Liquor Strategy: “Live Tax-Free or Die

• Press 11 for No Service Customer Service

• Iacocca's Dream: Organizing the Automotive Community Fiat-Chrysler merger

• Cancer Center Contributes to War on Disease

• When Government Reaches Beyond the Grave

• Route 10's Judicial Pothole Swallows Constitution Eminent domain

• For Hollywood, Future Holds Little Hope

2008

• The Nation's Press Can Do its Job -- If it Wants To

• Undergrads' Fundraising Is Reminiscent of Dickens

• Dreaming Ahead, the Names Never Change  Election of 2048

• Re-Examining the Bread Standard for 2008

• American Voters Face Familiar Choice   Ricky Bobby for President

• Earmarked Funds Often Miss the Mark

• Boards Must Have Balance, Integrity WVU Board of Governors

• It Was A Dark And Stormy EMBA Degree WVU degree scandal

• Were Our 'Good Old Days' Really That Good?

• As Investments, Airlines Have Bumpy Rides

• Huxley's America: A Nation on Drugs

• Delaying Tax Reform Delays Prosperity

• Book Review: "Is the Welfare State Justified?" by Dr. Daniel Shapiro

• O Death, Where Is Thy Certificate Of Need?

2007

• 'Why I Joined': A Soldier's Story In His Own Words

• Top Ten (West Virginia) Predictions for 2008

• Bong Hits 4 Jesus and Other Pipe Dreams

• State of West Virginia Faces a Hidden Highway Problem

• War On Poverty Gave Us Entitlements  (Part 2 of 2)

• During Past Decades, Nation Has Redefined Poverty  (Part 1 of 2)

• There Are 88 Reasons to Avoid Duke University

• With Abacus in Hand, the Chinese Eagerly Engage the World

• George C. Marshall Defined American Leadership

• Re: That Hellhole Issue, Phonebook Tells the Story (tort reform)

• Finding the Strength To Endure April's Cruelty (Va Tech massacre)

• It's the End of the World, and I Can't Sleep

• Winning Strategy: West Virginia University Proves Pay Matters

• Not All Photographs Tell a True Story

• Borrow It Forward: The Real West Virginia State Motto

2006

• For Government, Trailers Make Sense

• The Best-Paying Jobs That Your Taxes Can Buy

• The Importance of Being Herb (search for WVU President)

• American Know-How Delivers Record Opium Crop 

• We Won't Make Tough Calls On Higher Education

• Thomas Jefferson Provided the Real Fireworks

• Immigrants Helped Shape West Virginia

• Dead Cows Don't Wear OSHA Orange

• In 1984, Tom Brokaw Smiled At The Telescreen

• U. S. Chamber Should Encourage Clarity (tort reform)

• Road Projects Defy Both Description and Explanation

• A January Warm Enough To Ripen Watermelons 

• We Needn’t Accept Mediocre Education in West Virginia

2005

• Along With Atlas, West Virginia Shrugs

• West Virginians Endured After 1985 Flood

• We Live in an Age of Hope, Unlike the 1970s 

• Will West Virginia Lose the Potomac River? (Parts 1 & 2; Aug 26-Sep 2)

• Eminent Domain Has Become Imminent Domain (Supreme Court Kelo vs. City of New London decision)

• A Left Turn on the King Coal Highway

• Let's Take Stock of Our Various Addictions

• Hillary Actually Meant To Say, "... THE Village"

• Running Government As A Business

• Bait Shop Owners Find Nemo!  Collect Reward Money.

• WVU Offers Lessons in "Cancer Stories"

• Driving Through Fantasyland on Cruise Control

2004

• Could A Whisper Campaign Improve Our Image?

• The Internet's Role Has Grown in US Politics

• Marketplace 'Elbows' Can Help Solve Energy Problem

• What About Bob?  He'll Need a Job Soon

• When It Comes to Power, Reliability Matters Most

• What We Have Here Is A Failure to Communicate

• Asking Uncle Sam to Clean Up Our Trash

• Roadwork Orange: Your Highway Taxes at Work

• Common Sense Could Have Saved Our Nation More Than Money (9/11 Commission)

• History Repeats Itself--First As Tragedy, Second As Farce

• Steel Tariff: It's Deja Vu All Over Again!

• Geckos?  We Don't Need No Stinking Geckos!

• The Paving Cycle: A Sad Tale of West Virginia

2003

• How Martha Stewart Almost Stole Christmas

• Peter Robbed Again!  Capitol Cops Clueless.

• The 'Bread Standard' Provides Economic Gauge

• Grants, Central Planning No Cure For Economic Woes

• Daimler Chrysler--They both end in "ER"

• Opinion Writing Considerations

• Questions About the $5.5 billion Bond Issue; What West Virginia Voters Should Ask  [PDF download]

• Nouns -- a tribute to Dorothy Davis (1914-2004)

• The Events of 3/13 (NYC and 9/11)

• The Placebo Effect 

• Millennium Fervor

• Coal Miners

• Recollections of the Linotype Pressroom

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• Christmas 2000 (Palm Beach ballot)

• Christmas 2004 (Red State/Blue State instructions)

• Christmas 2005 (My ancestors)

• Christmas 2009 (New crossword puzzle words for 2009)

David Allen wrote "Listening for Cancer Stories", the closing chapter of "Cancer Stories: Lesson of Love, Loss, & Hope".  Order your copy from WVU Press-- online at www.wvupress.com or call 1-866-WVU-PRESS

Copyright 1990-2010  David G. Allen: The writer formerly known as "Prints"