Dan Rodricks

Baltimore's top prosecutor the latest Maryland pol accused of fraud

What Americans should want in public officials: Brains and integrity.

He was my best man, I was his. We lived 400 miles apart but communicated frequently by phone, mail and text, sharing recipes, jokes, political observations and sports trivia. His last message came on Christmas Eve from a hospital bed, expressing thanks and love.

Two stories of how mediation reduced violence in a northeast Baltimore community.

Despite pandemic and polarized politics, it's important to keep making personal plans.

This column is about something I suspect a lot of Americans might identify with — the great blessings and feelings of gratitude that come with finding a home away from home and having strangers treat you as family.

Finally, the last Nobody Asked Him, But column of 2021.

A nonprofit throws a holiday party for Baltimore children — 123 of them — who have lost siblings or parents to the incessant volience across the city.

Hopkins doctors propose treatment for the immunosuppressed in a way that will better protect the rest of us from coronavirus variants.

Stopping by Backyard Bears in Garrett County to see the master carver at work.

Baltimore and the nation need a reckoning on the amount of violence in the country.

An anti-violence message to counter all the violent messaging that infests our culture.

Cirincione, convicted 34 years ago in the death of a police officer, will pose challenge for the Maryland Parole Commission.

Here, in time for the holiday cooking and baking season, are 32 things I’ve learned dans la cuisine, if you know what I mean.

I have received another news release from Maryland Republicans about how sinister Maryland Democrats in the General Assembly are setting up their new congressional districts to keep their 7-1 edge in the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s enough to make a fella clutch his pearls.

Baltimore's problems are the region's problems, and they can't be wished out of sight.

I would like to tell you about Ernie Imhoff and the lessons he offered with the life he lived. I’ll start with this one: You can be the boss and still be a friend.

“His whole face was covered in blood,” a witness said of the kid, likely in his mid teens.

Baltimore businessman grateful for federal relief loan but not for Bank of America's refusal to forgive it in full.

New ideas about masculinity in a Towson professor's book, "Better Boys, Better Men."

A lesson in gratefulness from a Marylander who lost his legs in war.

Build Back Better: Expanding child care for low-income families in Baltimore

A visit to the Fresh Start program of the Living Classrooms Foundation, where teens who've been trouble get back on track — or on track for the first time in their lives — to complete their high school education, pick up decent work habits and learn some carpentry skills.

New Maryland law allows those convicted as juveniles, after 20 years in prison, to ask a judge to reconsider their sentences.

Curiosities, desires, ambitions and aspirations, a random list from our columnist.

Bipartisan support for Pell Grants means more inmates will get a prison education, and that's a good thing.

As if the pandemic had not hurt Baltimore businesses enough, some teenage boys decided to make life even tougher for Alma’s Cocina Latina, Tapas Teatro, the Charles Theatre and Sofi’s Crepes in Station North.

Millions more in government subsidies coming this year to cut costs of health insurance.

A virtual conference this weekend on lynchings serves as an answer to the foolish controversy over “critical race theory.”

Driven to the brush and pencil, Middleman painted and drew thousands of images up until his death last week.