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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2008 Stories by Tom Robbins

• Reviving Lead Belly

  published December 31, 2008

  How is it that the glory that was the great folk and blues singer known as Lead Belly is today reduced to a single feeble listing as an "early... More >>

• Stanley Schlein Rides Again

  published December 24, 2008

  A smart lawyer with good connections is a handy person to have around, no matter his pedigree. That's why, despite his steadily outrageous... More >>

• How the 'Gang of Three' Ties Up Senate Dems

  published December 17, 2008

  Say this for the scandal surrounding Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich: It's simple and right to the point. What exactly is not to get about a... More >>

• Prosecutors Target a Brand-New Judge

  published December 10, 2008

  New Yorkers who can tell you the precise number of electoral votes in Ohio and Indiana give only blank looks when asked how their own local... More >>

• Giuliani's Rudy-in-Nylons Skit Starred Some Witless Crooks

  published December 3, 2008

  The genius of the CompStat anti-crime system launched by the Rudy Giuliani administration here in the 1990s was that it didn't believe in... More >>

• A Thanksgiving NYC Honor Roll for Hard Times

  published November 26, 2008

  By every measure, we are in for a long, hard winter, one that has already turned punishingly cold on the streets, in City Hall, and in Albany.... More >>

• Make Obama's Inauguration a People's Celebration

  published November 19, 2008

  Many of us got a little dopey after Barack Obama's big win on election night. People started talking to deceased friends and relatives who... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  How Obama's Hopesters Took Ohio

  published November 12, 2008

  Lorain, Ohio—The kind of hope Barack Obama promised to deliver was nowhere craved more deeply on Election Day than in this battered old... More >>

• Governor Paterson Means Business

  published November 5, 2008

  The Republicans' toughest rap in the election's final days was that Democrats and their leaders want to plunge the nation into "class warfare."... More >>

• Bloomberg's Term-Limits Coup: Heroes, Villains, and Wimps

  published October 29, 2008

  So much for New York City sophisticates. Last week's rush by 29 self-inflated council members to gut term-limits laws—approved by voters... More >>

• Michael Bloomberg's Velvet Coup

  published October 22, 2008

  Mugabe? OK, it's an outrageous comparison. Forgive me. Mike Bloomberg would never shut down newspapers or use brutal thugs against... More >>

• The Hidden History of the City's Greatest Era

  published October 15, 2008

  New York's 1980s street life has long gotten a bad rap, and it is high time to correct it. For that matter, the only decade with a worse... More >>

• John McCain's Vegas Getaway

  published October 8, 2008

  Mid-November 2000 was a time when hardcore Republicans rushed south to fight the battle of Florida and win the presidency for George W. Bush.... More >>

• The Real Soap Opera Behind Daytime TV's New Judge

  published October 1, 2008

  Before there was Sarah Palin, there was Jeanine Pirro, another energetic, good-looking brunette eager to throw conservative punches at liberal... More >>

• The Backstory of the Financial Collapse

  published September 23, 2008

  Here's one small bit of payback that angry and frustrated New Yorkers could easily bestow on the grasping financial merchants behind last... More >>

• Veteran Pol Tony Seminerio and Bribe-Taking in Albany

  published September 17, 2008

  What trips up most crooks, investigators say, is a firm belief that they're too smart to get caught. That had to be the working rationale... More >>

• Mike Bloomberg Is The Eternal Mayor

  published September 10, 2008

  Mike Bloomberg awoke in the morning feeling great, although he wasn't sure why. He had been in a funk all summer. Every day brought a reminder... More >>

• Daniel Squadron, The Mouthy Candidate Who Won't Talk

  published September 3, 2008

  Daniel Squadron, a wealthy first-time political candidate, is running a smart and aggressive campaign against one of Albany's most veteran... More >>

• GOP Star Marty Golden Doles Out Big Bucks to his Family Catering Hall

  published August 27, 2008

  Before he went into politics, Republican state senator Marty Golden spent his days running one of South Brooklyn's most popular catering halls.... More >>

• Bronx Taste Test: Efrain Gonzalez Jr. or Pedro Espada Jr.?

  published August 19, 2008

  Bronx state senator Efrain Gonzalez Jr. was back in federal court last week to hear the latest developments in his two-year-old fraud... More >>

• The Shame of Speaker Shelly Silver's Resistance to Seward Park Redevelopment

  published August 12, 2008

  Just south of Delancey Street on the Lower East Side, near the bustling entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge, lies that rarest Manhattan... More >>

• A Former Charles Schumer Aide Tries to Upend State Senate Vet Marty Connor

  published August 5, 2008

  If Chuck Schumer were a brand, he'd be Wal-Mart. Not so much the company's atrocious labor policies (see the powerful new book The Big... More >>

• Is McCain a War Criminal Who Has Served His Time?

  published July 29, 2008

  Right before Barack Obama took off on his tour of Mideast battlefronts, John McCain pointedly reminded everyone which presidential candidate... More >>

• The NYPD Rips Up Rappers

  published July 9, 2008

  On June 18, a pair of brothers named Rodrigo and Gonzalo Venegas decided to take a friend visiting from Chicago for a city tour. The brothers... More >>

• The First Hasidic Candidate for City Council is a Rebel in His Own Sect

  published July 2, 2008

  For those of us on the outside looking in at Brooklyn's mysterious and ultra-Orthodox Hasidic communities, there has always been Isaac Abraham... More >>