Email Author Tom Robbins

Awards

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 11, 2009

  "Gillibrand Learned How to Defend Tobacco's Dirtiest Secrets"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2009

  "Senate Coup Plotters' Hidden Agenda"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 27, 2009

  "The Mayor's Press Pass"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 13, 2008

  "Eliot Sptizer Goes Down"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 29, 2008

  "Bloomberg's Term Limits Coup"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 23, 2008

  "Bloomberg's Velvet Coup"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 16, 2007

  "Rudy's Brain"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 19, 2007

  "Benchwarmers"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 28, 2007

  "Mike Bloomberg, Free At Last"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published November 1, 2007

  "Tale of the Tape"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published October 25, 2007

  "Tall Tales of a Mafia Mistress"

• 2008 - Deadline Club Awards/New York City Society of Professional Journalists, published October 18, 2007

  "The Judge and the G-Man"

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2001 Stories by Tom Robbins

• Waiting for Labor to Rise

  published December 25, 2001

  Early this month, officials at the AFL-CIO convention in Las Vegas reluctantly acknowledged that their numbers had slipped yet again—this... More >>

• Bread and Roses Too

  published December 18, 2001

  On their best days, labor unions aspire to be much more than the enforcers of contracts and providers of member benefits. In their loftiest... More >>

• Cleaning Up at Ground Zero

  published November 27, 2001

  In keeping with his new role as America's Mayor, Rudy Giuliani is moving to award the city's biggest-ever emergency contract to one of America's... More >>

• Labor’s Election Day Flop

  published November 20, 2001

  New York is a union town, its labor leaders proclaim proudly and often. It is a bit of bluster designed to inspire confidence among members while... More >>

• Crime Wave

  published November 13, 2001

  On the Friday before the election, Michael Bloomberg—giddy with joy—announced his endorsement by 15 prominent African Americans. Among... More >>

• The New Mayor’s Mission

  published November 6, 2001

  And so the real work begins. The campaign posturing, the preening, the pleading and cajoling, the maneuvering for advantage, the payback for... More >>

• The Best Campaign Money Can Buy

  published October 30, 2001

  Whatever happens in next week's mayoral election, those who joined the Mike Bloomberg campaign are already big winners—moneywise. The... More >>

• Labor’s Lone Ranger

  published October 23, 2001

  Among the strangest events of this civil war-style, brother-against-brother Democratic mayoral race was when they booed health care workers leader... More >>

• The Hidden Persuaders

  published October 16, 2001

  Thursday afternoon, election day, found the author of one of the unsigned leaflets attacking Fernando Ferrer in the Democratic mayoral runoff... More >>

• Grumbling at Green

  published October 9, 2001

  There've been 10 days of heavy grumbling and griping among Mark Green's erstwhile supporters since the liberal icon went along with Mayor... More >>

• Who’ll Advocate for the Public?

  published October 2, 2001

  The race for Public Advocate—never a focus of much attention even before the world was turned upside down on September 11—has suddenly... More >>

• Working-Class Heroes

  published September 25, 2001

  Questions that linger: Were the hijackers peering through the cockpit window as they swept toward their Lower Manhattan targets? In the final... More >>

• Bush’s New Best Friend

  published September 11, 2001

  Just before the Labor Day weekend, former Teamsters union president Ron Carey walked into the new federal courthouse on Pearl Street and drew up a... More >>

• The Favors Candidate

  published August 28, 2001

  An irate Alan Hevesi vowed two weeks ago to answer every question from reporters about the "despicable lie" that he had taken a $6000 bribe in... More >>

• Elephant Hunters

  published August 21, 2001

  Leaders of the upstart Green Party—whose platform calls for broader ballot access for candidates—are picking up a new electoral skill:... More >>

• The Court Street Regular

  published August 14, 2001

  There are 300 candidates running for slots on the new City Council in this wide-open, post-term-limits election year that is supposed to help... More >>

• Up From Fox Street

  published July 31, 2001

  In 1987, when he was 36 years old and a largely untested member of the City Council, Fernando Ferrer was picked by the battered remnants of the... More >>

• Inside Job for a Fixer

  published July 17, 2001

  The city's social services agency awarded contracts worth more than $72,000 to a crooked buildings consultant—two years after his arrest amid... More >>

• Tower of East 10th Street

  published July 10, 2001

  A new 17-story tower now going up on an East Village block has presented a double challenge to both the city's labor movement and to neighborhood... More >>

• Raw Material

  published June 26, 2001

  In 1968 there were more than 650,000 steelworkers in the U.S., laboring at scorching hot hearths in vast, mighty mills from Baltimore to... More >>

• A Consultant’s Near and Dear

  published June 26, 2001

  The buildings consultant who pleaded guilty to bribing city councilman Thomas Ognibene with gifts and meals in exchange for help with city... More >>

• Danger Below

  published June 19, 2001

  On July 24, 1997, crooked buildings consultant Ronald Lattanzio and the head of the city's largest building-contractors group were heard on... More >>

• Inside Edge

  published June 12, 2001

  Bribe-taking by the city's building-code regulators is about as shocking to New Yorkers as subway-fare beaters at rush hour, and while some of the... More >>

• Labor’s Loneliest Battles

  published May 22, 2001

  The best unions fight their toughest battles alone, behind closed doors. Waged one-on-one, member-to-member, they are confrontations aimed at... More >>

• Sickout

  published May 15, 2001

  One of the strongest arguments against the claim that unions only act in their own, public-be-damned self-interest was made last week by thousands... More >>