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 October 23, 2008

  "Bloomberg's Velvet Coup"

• 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"

• 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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2005 Stories by Tom Robbins

• No Hard Hats Worn Here

  published April 12, 2005

  The American labor movement appears headed for a bitter brawl this summer when the annual convention of the AFL-CIO convenes in Chicago in late... More >>

• Columbia Students Walk

  published April 12, 2005

  Graduate student teaching assistants at Columbia University walked off their jobs this week, a follow-up to a four-week strike they held last... More >>

• Looking for Whitey

  published April 5, 2005

  Somewhere in the world is a wiry, 75-year-old man with thinning silver hair and cold blue eyes whose photo adorns the FBI's Most Wanted list. If... More >>

• Win One for the Gyppers

  published March 29, 2005

  The strongest boast that Team Bloomberg brought with it into office three years ago was its business skills. Coach and captain Mike Bloomberg, a... More >>

• Team Players

  published March 29, 2005

  Immediately after winning the MTA vote last week, the Jets held a victory rally at the Terrace Room of the nearby Roosevelt Hotel. On the stage,... More >>

• Market-Rate Giveaway

  published March 15, 2005

  Along the Harlem River near Yankee Stadium, the wholesale merchants of the Bronx Terminal Market still throw open their vast warehouse-like shops... More >>

• Harding's Plea

  published March 15, 2005

  Last week, three years after his extravagant spending on the taxpayer's dime was exposed in the Voice, former Rudy Giuliani aide Russell... More >>

• Favorite Sons

  published March 1, 2005

  Last spring, as a brand-new city ferry named in his honor neared completion, former Staten Island borough president Guy Molinari began lobbying... More >>

• Nascar Payday

  published March 1, 2005

  Guy Molinari's biggest lobbying payday is coming from the Florida-based International Speedway Corporation, which is seeking to build a NASCAR... More >>

• The Mob's Multimillion-Dollar Batter

  published February 15, 2005

  On one level, he's a classic American success story: Brought to the U.S. in 1962 as an infant by Albanian parents fleeing Communism, he is two... More >>

• Stadium Fear Factor

  published February 8, 2005

  One of the toughest critics of the mayor's plan to create a $1.7 billion stadium for the New York Jets is Richard Ravitch, a former chairman of... More >>

• History Lesson

  published February 8, 2005

  A new stadium for the Jets is crucial, the Bloomberg administration argues, in order to jump-start long-stalled development atop the West Side... More >>

• Porn Stars

  published February 1, 2005

  Last week,... More >>

• The Deputy Mayor for the Olympics

  published January 25, 2005

  Since taking office as deputy mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding in January 2002, Daniel L. Doctoroff has taken more than 30... More >>

• Giving and Getting

  published January 25, 2005

  The list of contributors to the nonprofit group launched by Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff to bring the Olympics to New York City looks a lot like... More >>

• Bloomberg Tosses Money at GOP Foe

  published January 18, 2005

  On January 12, the day before Michael Bloomberg got the news that he faced a challenge for the Republican Party's nomination from former Queens... More >>

• Thunder on the Right

  published January 18, 2005

  Tom Ognibene spent a decade on the City Council representing voters in Middle Village, a Queens neighborhood light-years from Mike Bloomberg's... More >>

• The Labor Fixer

  published January 4, 2005

  Amid little fanfare, one of New York's most powerful labor racketeers was packed off to an upstate federal prison this month to begin a... More >>

• Guy's Mob Pal

  published January 4, 2005

  Former state senator Guy Velella is now serving a jail term of his own, but he's had several friends who could tell him about life behind bars,... More >>