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.
Old habits die hard. It was a few minutes before noon on Wednesday, and a handful of registered State House lobbyists were standing in…
Hours before the General Assembly gaveled in for its 442nd session Wednesday, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) announced a round of appointments that…
On the eve of the new General Assembly session, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) announced some leadership appointments, committee switches and assignments…
The 442nd session of the Maryland General Assembly opens Wednesday under conditions that were completely unimaginable a year ago. The COVID-19 pandemic has created…
This story has been updated to include a comment from Senate President Bill Ferguson (D). Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) has launched his…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland announced this week that it has hired Caylin A. Young as its new public policy director. Young will…
Mark McLaurin, the former political director of SEIU Local 500 and veteran campaign strategist, has joined Indigo Strategies, a political consulting, media and digital…
Rifkin Weiner Livingston LLC, the well-connected legal and government relations firm based in Annapolis, Baltimore and Bethesda, will announce Monday that Camille G. Fesche…
While he continues to run the day-to-day operations of Anne Arundel County government ― including the local COVID-19 response ― and begins to plot…
As Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) prepares to unveil his latest COVID-19 relief package Monday and with the annual General Assembly session set…