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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 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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