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Patton Dodd has served as an executive- or senior-level editor for several national publications. His writing has appeared in a wide range of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Financial Times, Christianity Today, Cineaste, Books & Culture, The Shambhala Sun, and The Revealer. He taught writing, literature, and film at the United States Air Force Academy and Boston University. Dodd holds a Ph.D. in religion and literature from Boston U…

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Telling a new story about San Antonio

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By Patton Dodd
| San Antonio Report Verified
Commentaries at the San Antonio Report provide space for our community to share perspectives and offer solutions to pressing local issues. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author alone. You can almost set your clock to these stories. With uncanny regularity, some editor from a big publication reaches out to a reporter in Texas with a story idea: The city of San Antonio is booming. But it’s still really poor. Why is that? Let’s cover it! And off the reporter goes.
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What the Nuggets Were For

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By Patton Dodd
| Substack
The late 90s Denver Broncos. The early 2000s Red Sox. And the current era Denver Nuggets. Those are my all-time favorite sports teams—teams I know backwards and forwards like the novels I’ve read five times. These Nuggets have been the best of them because the timeline of their core squad runs parallel to the years my son, Henry, has been a teenager, and he loves them just as much as I do. The seeds were planted when he was five years old and I took him to his first Nuggets game.
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Who Is My Neighbour in a Fragmented City?

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By Elizabeth Oldfield, Patton Dodd
| Fully Alive by Elizabeth Oldfield
Today’s post is a guest essay by Patton Dodd. We share an obsession with neighbouring which I am doubling down on this year, having written this post about making it my 2026 resolution. To recap why: Neighbouring is future proofing and resilience planning. Neighbouring is democracy defence. Neighbouring is terrorism prevention Neighbouring can mitigate the challenges of migration Neighbouring is a powerful public health programme.
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