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In federal prison, ol' Bulldog faces sensual shock

Dan Rodricks — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:23:57 -0400

Alleged Black Guerrilla Family leader awaiting trial in U.S. institution

If the federal prison that gets Tavon White is anything like the last one I visited, even a charmer such as Bulldog will have a tough time recreating the life of the libertine he had at the Baltimore City Detention Center.

A public service message to youth sports parents

Dan Rodricks — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:08:00 -0400

Try to keep a little perspective, folks; remember what it was like to be a kid

The good news is that, in seven years of umpiring amateur baseball games in the Baltimore area, Frank Handley has had to give the thumb to only five adults. The bad news is he had to do it again a couple of weeks ago. But we're going to turn a negative into a positive today. We're going to get the message out — a reminder, really — that parents need to keep the ugly under control and set a good example for children.

Who's your daddy? For Orb, it's Malibu Moon

Dan Rodricks — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:51:00 -0400

Now one of the nation's leading stallions, Orb's sire got his start in Harford County

The Preakness means more to Marylanders when there's a Marylander in the race, and this year we have the obvious connection in Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner owned in part by Stuart Janney III, chairman of Bessemer Trust and resident of Butler, in the heart of horse country north of Baltimore.

Maryland's McDaniel College closing the 'opportunity gap'

Dan Rodricks — Sun, 12 May 2013 09:35:00 -0400

McDaniel in Westminster gets props for helping bright, low-income students pay for college

Here's what Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, said three years ago as the nation's gap between rich and poor widened toward historic levels: "I think it's a very bad development. It's creating two societies. And it's based very much, I think, on educational differences. … It leads to an unequal society, and a society which doesn't have the cohesion that we'd like to see."

Complaining CEOs need to take a hike

Dan Rodricks — Wed, 8 May 2013 19:26:04 -0400

Gripes about Maryland's business climate become tiresome

I took a walk early Wednesday morning. Azaleas and dogwoods were in bloom. Green-again trees and shrubs were damp, dripping from Tuesday's rain. A zillion birds were singing, and even the starlings sounded sweet. The Orioles had won another game. A horse with a Maryland owner had won the Kentucky Derby.

Maybe Majid Khan rates a stateside prison cell

Dan Rodricks — Sat, 4 May 2013 19:42:00 -0400

Baltimore County man, detainee at Gitmo, cooperating with authorities

As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His cricket skills helped him excel at baseball, the quintessential American game.

Corrections reform never an O'Malley priority

Dan Rodricks — Wed, 1 May 2013 17:23:10 -0400

Before BGF scandal at jail, there was another on his watch

With a straight face, the Maryland governor says the sex-and-drugs scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center, including the alleged corruption of 13 corrections officers, is a "positive achievement." He claims his corrections secretary, Gary Maynard, established a state-federal task force to investigate the corrupting influence of the Black Guerrilla Family while some of the gang's members, including Tavon "I'm Your Daddy" White, were in the BCDC, a state-run facility.

Scandal at jail another symptom of war on drugs

Dan Rodricks — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:07:48 -0400

Modern prohibition at root of killings and corruption

Let me start with this: If not for the absurd war on drugs — by far, the nation's longest war — we would not have had so many killings on the streets of Baltimore over the years.

Who was in charge at the city detention center?

Dan Rodricks — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:53:00 -0400

Lots of questions about BGF, Tavon White and his alleged baby mamas

I have lots of questions about the Black Guerrilla Family case, starting with this: Was the warden of the Baltimore City Detention Center asked to approve maternity leave for any of the female correctional officers allegedly impregnated by inmate Tavon "Bulldog" White?

After the Boston bombings, returning to our post-9/11 rituals

Dan Rodricks — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:11:16 -0400

Trying to make sense where there's none, becoming hyper-vigilant again

In the two months after 9/11, I called Baltimore County police to check out a black-and-tan backpack left by an office door in Towson, reported an abandoned carry-on bag at BWI to Maryland State Police and refused to watch a bulky valise for a stranger who wanted to leave it with me while he went to the restroom at the airport.