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 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"

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

  "Rudy's Brain"

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2005 Stories by Tom Robbins

• Bill Weld's School Daze

  published December 13, 2005

  The saga of William Weld's sojourn to Kentucky to run a for-profit vocational college where students were taught mainly through online computer... More >>

• Giuliani Pal

  published December 13, 2005

  A few months after Rudy Giuliani established himself as a private business consultant, he announced that he'd signed on as chairman of the... More >>

• Law and Disorder: Special Victims Unit

  published December 6, 2005

  Back in 1997 police arrested a man named Ronald Taylor, who worked as an assistant public school principal in Harlem. Taylor, 50 years old at the... More >>

• Too Hot to Handle

  published December 6, 2005

  Late schools watchdog Ed Stancik had a take-no-prisoners reputation as he waged war on corruption and misconduct in the city's public education... More >>

• Mob's Thruway Detour

  published November 22, 2005

  The traditional American Mafia was supposed to have run out of gas and guns at least a decade ago, right around the time those two Hall of Famers,... More >>

• Shopping Spree

  published November 22, 2005

  He may not be fit to build a highway interchange, but builder Joseph Pontoriero, president of Worth Construction, is a strong contender for title... More >>

• Pier Pressure

  published November 15, 2005

  Mob domination of the dock workers' union is the stuff of legend in New York. For more than half a century, the International Longshoremen's... More >>

• Labor Rebel

  published November 15, 2005

  When it comes to union reforms like those recently advanced by the International Longshoremen's Association, Herman Benson is a hard sell. Benson,... More >>

• The Nerds Are Pissed

  published November 8, 2005

  "Nerds" is their term, not mine. It comes from a flyer, one of dozens tacked around Washington Square Park these days. "The nerds are pissed," it... More >>

• Housing Scandal

  published November 8, 2005

  Shameful publicity is supposed to be a big part of the punishment for officials caught violating their public trust. But that was just one of the... More >>

• Grand Theft Jobs

  published November 1, 2005

  This fall, a top official at the city's largest job-training organization quietly told co-workers that he had terminal cancer and only months to... More >>

• Bloomy's Hypocritical Oath

  published October 25, 2005

  Fair's fair, so let's start with this: There's no question but that Michael Bloomberg has been a better mayor than New Yorkers had any right to... More >>

• The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee

  published October 18, 2005

  April 16, 2002 On January 16, with just two weeks to go until his last day on the job, Russell Harding, president of the New York City... More >>

• The Odd Couple

  published October 11, 2005

  Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro and Mayor Michael Bloomberg may make an odd political couple, but ever since both men won their... More >>

• Bloomy's Flip-Flop

  published September 27, 2005

  Michael Bloomberg didn't always walk on eggshells around his most controversial supporter, Lenora Fulani. While the mayor belatedly criticized the... More >>

• Party Lines

  published September 20, 2005

  In the six years that Frank MacKay has been chairman of the state's Independence Party—the influential holder of Row C on New York's... More >>

• Democrats Notch a Win

  published September 13, 2005

  No matter how Freddy Ferrer does in November, matched as he is against a wealthy and popular incumbent, the city's Democrats scored a win last... More >>

• He Likes Freddy and Mike

  published September 13, 2005

  Freddy Ferrer's lead cheerleader at his primary-night celebration at the Puck Building was City Council majority leader Joel Rivera. The... More >>

• Mike's Awkward Ally

  published September 6, 2005

  Once he accepted the Independence Party's nomination, Michael Bloomberg's best hope was that Lenora Fulani, its notorious local leader, would just... More >>

• Party Unfaithful

  published September 6, 2005

  Independence Party chairman Frank MacKay says he has the votes to oust followers of Lenora Fulani from the state party's executive committee at a... More >>

• Prosecution complex

  published August 30, 2005

  Three challengers are running against Brooklyn's longtime district attorney, Charles "Joe" Hynes, in next week's Democratic primary. All voice a... More >>

• I'll Be the Judge

  published August 30, 2005

  As Brooklyn Democratic Party leader Clarence Norman was starting trial last week on corruption charges, his peculiar approach to judicial politics... More >>

• Chicago Justice as a Nonstop Floor Show

  published August 9, 2005

  It's easy to understand the American public's longtime fascination with the goings-on of courtrooms. Where else can you see confrontations between... More >>

• Pataki's Quiet Court-Packing

  published August 9, 2005

  Being a lame-duck governor deprives George Pataki of much of his Albany clout, but it does nothing to diminish his substantial powers of office.... More >>

• Hirschfeld's Pals

  published August 9, 2005

  The death last week at 85 of Abe Hirschfeld, the ex-con real estate mogul, brought forth a torrent of tales, from his penchant for phlegm-tossing... More >>