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Dan Rodricks

Dan Rodricks is a long-time 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).

Great Wall, an Asian supermarket on Baltimore National Pike, offers a wide array of seafood and a large selection of fruits and vegetables.

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Dan Rodricks: A taste of Asia in Maryland — touring H Mart, Great Wall | STAFF COMMENTARY

March 15, 2024 at 9:35 p.m.

The large Asian markets to the west of Baltimore signify the ethnic diversity of the region and trigger the desire for healthy food and cooking at home.

Robert Hur looks less like a partisan hack than a public servant trapped in a no-win situation in the middle of the country’s dispiriting political divide.

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Dan Rodricks: Epic no-win for Robert Hur in Biden probe | STAFF COMMENTARY

March 14, 2024 at 10:57 a.m.

Robert Hur looks less like a partisan hack than a public servant trapped in a no-win situation in the middle of the country’s dispiriting political divide.

Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico lined up for processing by Customs and Border Protection agents in Eagle Pass, Texas.

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Dan Rodricks: It’s way past time to stop demonizing immigrants | STAFF COMMENTARY

March 12, 2024 at 4:28 p.m.

The constant, veiled and blatant demonizing of immigrants by the American right raises a question: Do these people really want to become citizens here?

Graffiti or “tagging” has appeared on both public property and businesses establishments in central Baltimore for several years.

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Dan Rodricks: Baltimore businesses could sue their way out of the graffiti problem | STAFF COMMENTARY

March 9, 2024 at 4:28 a.m.

Nobody asked me, but maybe more property owners should sue the spray-painting vandals who tag their buildings and businesses. Graffiti is out of control in many Baltimore commercial areas.

Now, when I see the remnants of a pay phone, and that’s rare, I think of love-sick teenagers, gamblers before the state took over the numbers racket, reporters in trench coats dictating the details of a three-alarm fire.

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Dan Rodricks: On finding an old, broken pay phone on Patapsco Avenue | STAFF COMMENTARY

March 7, 2024 at 5:35 p.m.

Now, when I see the remnants of a pay phone, and that’s rare, I think of love-sick teenagers, gamblers before the state took over the numbers racket, reporters in trench...

Electric ferries, like this high-speed water taxi in Europe, might one day be used for Chesapeake crossings.

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Dan Rodricks: Electric ferries looking like a real possibility for the Chesapeake | STAFF COMMENTARY

March 10, 2024 at 10:10 a.m.

Maybe you could take a trip from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to Rock Hall for the day, or maybe you could take a ferry from Matapeake to Annapolis to have lunch,...

Andrea Mayer, of Wills Printing Co., stands outside her family business on Patapsco Avenue in Brooklyn, next to the blighted property that caused her headaches for years.

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Dan Rodricks: A victory against the blight in Baltimore’s Baybrook | STAFF COMMENTARY

March 1, 2024 at 9:33 p.m.

"When you're at the point where you've been disruptive and destructive to the neighborhood, you should have to answer to the neighborhood."

The sun sets over a destroyed building in Izyum, Ukraine, a city devastated by Russian attacks and retaken by Ukrainian forces.

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Dan Rodricks: In Baltimore, decrying Republican resistance to funding Ukraine’s fight against Russia | STAFF COMMENTARY

February 29, 2024 at 6:36 p.m.

We have the disgraceful and unprecedented prospect of the “leader of the free world” holding back its support of an ally against a rival ruled by a murderous dictator with...

“Sir,” he said. “Do you know how to tie a necktie?”

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Dan Rodricks: Tied up for a few meaningful minutes on a downtown Baltimore street | STAFF COMMENTARY

February 23, 2024 at 3:35 p.m.

“Sir,” he said. “Do you know how to tie a necktie?”

The Maryland General Assembly is being asked to adopt a package of tax reforms called the Fair Share for Maryland Act of 2024.

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Dan Rodricks: Maryland legislators need to close a tax loophole that protects corporate profits | STAFF COMMENTARY

February 16, 2024 at 9:28 p.m.

“Worldwide combined reporting would completely eradicate corporate income tax avoidance in the state of Maryland."

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