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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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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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December 20, 2008 Building collapses

Crooked politicians mean tumbling buildings—in countries from Egypt to China, not just U.S.

In The Solomon Scandals, my Washington newspaper novel, hundreds of IRS and CIA bureaucrats die in the collapse of a

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December 20, 2008 Politicians

Two Chicagoans: President Bullard vis-a-vis Obama

Both are self-made men from Chicago—intellectual politicians with law degrees. And like me, both are on the liberal side. No

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