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Dan Rodricks

Dan Rodricks is a former longtime columnist for The Baltimore Sun, and a local radio and television personality who has won several national and regional journalism awards over a reporting, writing and broadcast career spanning five decades. He is the author of three books, including "Father's Day Creek" (Apprentice House 2019).

This booking photo released Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections shows Luigi Mangione, a suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Pennsylvania Department of Corrections via AP)

Dan Rodricks: Luigi Mangione and where we are now | STAFF COMMENTARY

December 19, 2024 at 4:44 p.m.

On the public and private sentiments underlying the United Healthcare CEO murder.

Ken Wireman, center, executive director of Main Street Housing, Inc., with two of the nonprofit’s tenants in Baltimore, Shakea Conyers, left, and Suzanne Hecker.

Dan Rodricks: Main Street Housing, good work on the down-low for 25 years across Maryland | STAFF COMMENTARY

December 7, 2024 at 1:09 p.m.

A Maryland nonprofit that houses people with mental health disabilities.

Flags line an amphitheater in Cambridge, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where voters on Tuesday selected a new mayor for the Dorchester County city.

Dan Rodricks: Voters in Cambridge draw a line the nation should have | STAFF COMMENTARY

December 5, 2024 at 10:50 a.m.

The citizens of Cambridge managed to do in December what voters across the U.S. were unable to do in November — keep a lawbreaker from returning to political power.

Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker, shown in training camp last summer, is also a trained opera singer.

Dan Rodricks: Song of praise for Justin Tucker, a great kicker with a great future on a different stage | STAFF COMMENTARY

December 4, 2024 at 9:35 a.m.

He could have a wonderful life as a singer after a wonderful life as a kicker for the Ravens.

For decades, Lawrence Bell’s late father treated thousands of dental patients on the first floor of his home on Auchentoroly Terrace on Baltimore’s west side. His son is trying to revive and expand the Bell clinic.

Dan Rodricks: Lawrence Bell and the challenges of urban dentistry | STAFF COMMENTARY

December 1, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

“It's so much worse than people realize."

Pam and Christian Wilson, the visionaries behind Hope Village, a housing project designed to empower low-wage earners to own their own homes, tour the project during the opening celebration in the Oliver neighborhood of East Baltimore. The 13 400-square foot homes on Holbrook Street are priced at $25,000, with affordable financing. The Wilsons, founders of the nonprofit Heart’s Place Services, Inc., completed the project in partnership with Mark Saperstein’s 28 Walker Development company. (Staff)

Dan Rodricks: A lot of good they do: Big-hearted, socially conscious Baltimoreans | STAFF COMMENTARY

November 29, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

A lot of good they do — the charitable organizations of Baltimore and Baltimoreans with big hearts.

Giving thanks for the way morning light burnished the windows on the front of Read Street rowhouses — a fleeting but savored moment in a Baltimore day.

Dan Rodricks: Thanks for small wonders, singular moments and encounters with strangers | STAFF COMMENTARY

November 26, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Thanksgiving 2024: Sometimes the things for which we should be grateful are small, fleeting and too easily forgotten.

A nearly 50-year-old mural in Baltimore’s Little Italy, depicting people of the neighborhood in a religious procession, will be getting “a little touch-up and a little paint.”

Dan Rodricks: Fresh paint for an old mural and 12 other items you didn’t ask about | STAFF COMMENTARY

November 24, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

“A little touch-up and a little paint" for Little Italy mural.

“We're trying to do the best we can to find young people who don't want to be found, engage them [and] teach them critical life-saving skills," says Kurt Palermo, Roca's vice-president for Maryland.

Dan Rodricks: The race against the clock to prevent shootings, homicides in Baltimore | STAFF COMMENTARY

November 22, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Second of two columns on organizations engaged in reducing violent crime in Baltimore.

Amit Peled, leaning on his cased cello, stands before the abandoned industrial building he wants to turn into a house of music in East Baltimore.

Dan Rodricks: An inspiring drive to build a house of music in East Baltimore Midway | STAFF COMMENTARY

November 19, 2024 at 3:15 p.m.

"We call you a music ambassador, so when you leave the Music House, eventually, you will go to Iowa City or to Oklahoma City and work instead of being depressed...

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