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Tag: General Services Administration

April 17, 2012 GSA / Media / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

Beyond GSA ‘crats at play: Scrutinize office leasing

Tax dollars at work, GSA style Angry taxpayers are buzzing over the organizational “culture” at the General Services Administration, the

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April 2, 2012 GSA / The Solomon Scandals

Mind reader and clown helped kill GSA leader Martha Johnson’s job

”Among the other expenses were $3,200 for a mind reader, $6,300 on a commemorative coin set displayed in velvet boxes

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September 1, 2010 GSA / Washington area life

The Solomon Scandals’ bureaucratic setting—a few decades later

Much of The Solomon Scandals is about conflicts between friendship and duty. A rickety high-rise may tumble as a result,

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February 9, 2010 GSA / The Solomon Scandals

Martha N. Johnson: GSA’s new leader vs. dirty politics—the ‘Solomon Scandals’ angle

A sad and bizarre update: Here. Margo Danialson, Oberlin B.A., is reporter Jon Stone’s partner in crime or anti-crime in

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December 21, 2008 Buying info

‘Solomon Scandals’ goes on sale now as e-book; January delivery in trade paperback

Psst! Advance promo copies of The Solomon Scandals are on sale now in e-book format (retail $5.95 USD). Twilight Times

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December 20, 2008 Uncategorized

Deep Throat is dead—and so are the old rules of investigative journalism

Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, the whistleblower in the FBI who blew open much of the Watergate scandal for the

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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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December 12, 2008 GSA

GSA: A checkered past

A variant of a Shakespearian quote shows up on the base of a statue outside the National Archives, once within

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November 29, 2008 Charles Smith

Solomon for real?

Sy Solomon, the real estate millionaire in The Solomon Scandals, never existed. Like many of the characters in my novel,

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