Dan Rodricks

“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.

Baltimore needs a good ghost mystery. Here's one from the sixth floor of City Hall — with photographic evidence.

In Garrett County, health officer Bob Stephens urges residents to get vaccinated, saying it's foolish not to.

Brian Frosh's tenure as Maryland attorney general focused on 'ways poor people are pounded deeper into poverty.'

More unsolicited opinions on politics and spies, crime and crickets.

UA House at Fayette is the hub of Living Classrooms' sprawling anti-poverty effort in East Baltimore.

I’m talking about tearing down and rebuilding the whole system from start to finish, putting corrections back in corrections and funding intense and comprehensive therapy at every facility.

Is this the reform we’ve been looking for? To once and for all, stop sending drug addicts to jail, give them more opportunities for treatment, and free up the police to pursue more serious crimes in one of the nation’s most violent cities?

Baltimore police have made arrests in at least 38 fatal and non-fatal shootings since mid-August.

More than talent, the Baltimore quarterback has that mysterious something 'no philosopher explains.'

A Maryland legal scholar weighs in the one the prospect of another American civil war.

The former Hogan administration official claims to be a victim of "political persecution."

Promoting independent stores in the city as well as on main streets in surrounding counties would be a great service to the retailers, the regional economy and our sense of place.

Everyone understands that the transition away from fossil fuels takes time, but we don’t have much.

Project SERVE, a program of the Living Classrooms Foundation, helps men and women get on track for employment and stable lives after incarceration.

The horrible mass shooting at the newspaper office in Annapolis left five people dead and scars all over their friends and relatives.

Even as we mourn more than 10,000 lives lost, it's time to reflect on lives saved because Marylanders took the pandemic seriously from the start.

Stop telling us what you’re about to do, and do it. Just don’t put out any more patronizing “overview memos” in the name of transparency; they leave the impression of all-talk-no-action — and that’s the last impression we need when bodies are still falling on sidewalks at a sickening pace.