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The Solomon Scandals novel, politicians, the media, the Washington area, tech and other surrealism:

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March 2, 2009 Media / Sen. Ribicoff

The trash factor: A big reason why newspapers are in trouble? And how can they cope with it?

Despite the dark humor in my Washington newspaper novel, The Solomon Scandals is also an exercise in nostalgia—taking us back

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February 27, 2009 Lorain, Ohio / Media

Closing of the Rocky Mountain Daily News

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3390739&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. The owners of a newspaper where I worked in the 1970s, the

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February 22, 2009 Media / Politicians / The Solomon Scandals

A ‘snarky’ critique of modern humor? What would Saul Alinsky have thought? Or Lewis Carroll?

Several kinds of snarks exist in Lewis Carroll‘s poem The Hunting of The Snark (free online). Certain of these creatures

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February 19, 2009 Buying info / The Solomon Scandals

Scandals available for iPhone via Fictionwise / Stanza store

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can buy The Solomon Scandals at the Fictionwise/Stanza store. Within Stanza on

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February 16, 2009 Buying info / Publicity

Solomon Scandals on Books On Board home page

Kudos to Books On Board, one of the Net’s leading e-book stores, for playing up The Solomon Scandals on the

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February 15, 2009 Lorain, Ohio

Lorain, Ohio: The real Marseilles, sort of—and Toni Morrison’s old town, on top of that

The Washington, D.C., area gets the most ink in The Solomon Scandals. But Scandals also contains flashbacks to the steel

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February 14, 2009 Media / The Solomon Scandals

Will politicians grow more crooked if newspapers dwindle in number and influence?

How good are newspapers as corruption-fighters or -preventers? As noted in The Brass Check, a Chicago Tribune reporter actually tried

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January 26, 2009 Skyline Plaza

Skyline Work Song: A poem by Andrew Solarz

The Solomon Scandals, although fiction, was inspired in part by the Skyline Plaza collapse, which killed 14 workers and injured

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January 25, 2009 Uncategorized

Washington’s growing power over the rest of us: ‘Solomonic’ in the wrong way?

The Solomon Scandals vividly depicts a city of lobbyists, crooked lawyers and other manipulators. Herbert Stone, father of Jonathan Stone,

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