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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Reverse Baltimore's population slide: Bring on the immigrants
Baltimore had a net loss of some 7,000 residents between the summer of 2017 and the summer of 2018, according to the latest Census Bureau estimate. That’s the biggest single-year loss in nearly two decades, the fourth consecutive annual loss since 2015 — one of the worst years in the long life...
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With another charge dropped, a frequent Baltimore defendant evades guilt again
Tuesday morning in the city of Baltimore, in the grand courthouse with the marble walls and murals of great moments in Maryland history, the state did what it has done numerous times before in the matter of frequent defendant David Warren — it dropped the charges against him. Police officers arrested...
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If Orioles' Chris Davis walked away from millions, he would not be the first
It lasted for about four seconds during the first minute of the 1 o’clock hour on Thursday, in the second inning of the Orioles-Athletics game at Camden Yards. It happened just as a yellow helicopter appeared in the sky beyond center field. You’d think maybe Chris Davis would have stayed out of...
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Rodricks: Vignarajah comes into the 2020 mayor's race wisely focused on crime and corruption
It will be up to city voters to decide if Thiru Vignarajah is the right man to be the next mayor of Baltimore, but one thing is clear from his announcement and my recent talk with him — he has the right message at the right time: End the killing and root out corruption. First things first. The...
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A new book about birds of Maryland arrives with spring and the reality of climate change
During a hike along a creek in Baltimore County last week, we found in the thick mud of its sloping banks the huge tracks of the great blue heron. They were unmistakable because of their size, between six and eight inches long, with four toes — three forward, one aft — planted in the muck like...
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Mike Busch, Catherine Pugh and that thing called integrity
I have heard or seen the word “integrity” invoked quite a bit over the last three weeks, though sadly more in elegy than as tribute to the living. Harry Hughes, the former Maryland governor who restored honor to that office after a scandal in the 1970s, was remembered at his Annapolis funeral as...
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Rodricks: Ferries won't replace the Bay Bridge we have — but they could replace one we don't have yet
Today’s column follows up on four earlier columns, starting with one from last month about getting cars and trucks across the Chesapeake Bay: Mail and social media comments ran roughly 8-to-1 in favor of my suggestion that Maryland explore electric-powered ferries. Readers liked the idea of taking...
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After Pugh, it's time for Baltimore's new leaders to step up
To those who shake their heads and say Baltimoreans foolishly keep electing crooks to public office, let me politely offer a little perspective: You’re wrong. I hate to brighten your unrelentingly dim view of Mob Town, but there is not a rich history of the populi knowingly sending scoundrels to...