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December 11, 2012 The Solomon Scandals

‘Scandals’ paperback and e-book bundled for $16.95 at re∙reads

A new local bookstore and Twilight Times Books, publisher of The Solomon Scandals, are teaming up to offer the e-book

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November 13, 2010 Politicians / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Out of ‘The Solomon Scandals’? Arrests of Prince George’s County exec and his wife—complete with $79.6K hidden in her underwear and perhaps $100K flushed down toilet

For The Solomon Scandals I created a fictitious Virginia county with fictitious crooks. Across the Potomac River in Maryland, I

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September 28, 2010 BRAC-133: The Quarter Pentagon / Politicians / Washington area life

Quarter of a Pentagon rises in my backyard: Media failure? And aren’t contractors’ campaign gifts worthy of mention?

Update: Jim Moran has since told me there was no quid pro quo, that the Indiana real estate developer's contributions

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May 10, 2010 The Solomon Scandals

Oily Gulf of Mexico: Singer Steve Forbert’s witty warnings—and a grim vision from a ‘polar cities’ artist

Could the Big Slick in the Gulf of Mexico be musician Steve Forbert’s career break, after years of kneejerk comparisons

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April 15, 2010 The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Adrian Fenty: D.C. ‘reform’ mayor as crooked as President Eddy Bullard in ‘The Solomon Scandals’?

President Eddy Bullard in The Solomon Scandals is a man of discretion and moderation. He isn’t flamboyantly corrupt like the

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October 30, 2009 The Solomon Scandals

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns, D.C.’s would-be Gatsbys, and the new defense scandals

The Solomon Scandals mentions F. Scott Fitzgerald—rather fittingly, given his family’s ties with the Washington area, the main setting of

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June 4, 2009 Media / Politicians / Sen. Ribicoff / The Solomon Scandals

The Jonathan Stone-David Rothman Q. & A.

Jonathan Stone, the reporter in The Solomon Scandals, grilled me for this Q. & A.—uncut. STONE: Why’s Scandals copyrighted in

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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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January 4, 2009 Future scandals

Mind-reading and Scandals’ ‘Reporting Chips’

http://www.cbs.com/thunder/swf30can10cbsnews/rcpHolderCbs-3-4×3.swf Watch CBS Videos Online The Solomon Scandals is a time-warpy kind of novel. Most of the plot unfolds in

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