Dan Rodricks
Dan Rodricks is an award-winning columnist for The Baltimore Sun, writing commentary on local, regional and national news three days a week since January 1979. He is also the host of a podcast, called Roughly Speaking, on baltimoresun.com. He is the former host of Midday, a daily talk show on WYPR, the NPR affiliate in Baltimore. Earlier, he was host of a talk show on WBAL Radio, contributed feature stories and commentary to WBAL-TV News, the NBC affiliate in Baltimore, and he produced and served as host of a live television show, "Rodricks For Breakfast," on WMAR-TV, the ABC affiliate in Baltimore. He is the winner of several national and regional journalism awards, and the author of two books.
Recent Articles
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Turkey Joe Trabert lived a large life full of laughter
Some men live larger than others, and you see that in the range of their experiences and interests, the number of stories they tell and lives they touch. They have insatiable desires to go somewhere new, to meet new people, make friends, read books, listen to music, raise a glass and have a good...
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Remembrance: On the death of a springtime friend
Eight years ago, on a Saturday morning in April, I did what I had done each of the previous 18 springs: I drove to beautiful Darlington, in Harford County, parked my car near the Stafford Road Bridge, across from the old Flint Furnace, donned chest waders, set up my fly rod and stepped into Deer...
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Broadway legend Carol Channing always made a splash when she came to Baltimore
Carol Channing, the Broadway legend who died Tuesday at 97, was as big a star to ever land in Baltimore, and she played her part beautifully on stage and off. Each time she came to Charm City in the 1970s, dramatic things happened. One time, someone stole her full-length mink coat. Another time,...
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Can Big Pharma keep getting away with price gouging? Not if Elijah Cummings has anything to say about it
Know why big pharmaceutical companies in the United States raise the prices of some prescription drugs to outrageous levels? Because they can. There are few obstacles to jacking up prices so the companies that sell brand-name drugs — and spend millions to advertise them ad nauseam — do pretty much...
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Mickey Light followed his bliss and sang like Sinatra
I doubt Mickey Light ever met Joseph Campbell, the eminent scholar of myth and folklore, but I know of no one who better practiced what Campbell preached: “Follow your bliss. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you ...” When...
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Podcast: Putting refugees to work in Atwater's Big Kitchen
In the midst of the worst global refugee crisis in history, Atwater's, the local restaurant group, has been putting refugees to work baking cookies and making soup. Working with the International Rescue Committee in Baltimore, Atwater's has provided jobs for 11 refugees.
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Pugh scores a surprising turnaround on police commissioner
Mayor Catherine Pugh surprised me, the governor of Maryland and just about every Baltimorean on Tuesday with her quick turnaround on getting a new police commissioner in place. She went from floundering to a flourish in less than 24 hours. Pugh looked downright decisive — like Ravens coach John...
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Memo to Trump: The real crisis is within, not at America's borders
The crisis President Donald Trump should be talking about is this one: Life expectancy in the United States is in decline, something not seen in a century — back to World War I and the influenza pandemic that killed an estimated 675,000 Americans and 50 million worldwide. Immigrants are not to...