Maryland Matters‘ Editor Josh Kurtz appeared Monday night on the incomparable Howard County-based podcast, “Elevate Maryland,” hosted by Candace Dodson Reed and Tom Coale.
The obvious topics of discussion: early voting and whether any trends can be detected; political races up and down the ballot; the impact of national politics on Maryland; political personalities; Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s possible national political ambitions; and other political matters.
The less obvious topics (which is why this is such a great podcast): Kurtz’s favorite Beatles tribute band, the Fab Faux; the novel “Life After Life”; Ingmar Bergman’s centennial; a relatively new pizza joint; and the merits of Thanksgiving vs. Halloween.
Click here to listen to the interview. And tune in Nov. 8, when Tom and Candace hold a post-election podcast with Bryan P. Sears of The Daily Record.
Josh Kurtz
Founding editor
Founding Editor Josh Kurtz is a veteran chronicler of Maryland politics and government. He began covering the State House in 1995 for The Gazette newspapers, and has been writing about state and local politics ever since. He was an editor at Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, for eight years, and for eight years was the editor of E&E Daily, which covers energy and environmental policy on Capitol Hill. For 6 1/2 years Kurtz wrote a weekly column on state politics for Center Maryland and has written for several other Maryland publications as well. Kurtz regularly gives speeches and appears on TV and radio shows to discuss Maryland politics.
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