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.
The family of U.S. Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) announced this weekend that it has created the Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and…
Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) and his wife, former deputy Treasury secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin, announced Thursday evening that their 25-year-old son, Thomas Bloom…
Editor’s note: Between now and Jan. 3, we’re re-running 12 great articles that appeared in Maryland Matters in 2020, in chronological order. On Jan….
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) announced Wednesday that he has hired former Baltimore City councilmember Shannon M. Sneed (D) to serve as his Baltimore…
Michael A. Jackson was walking through the State House lobby one day in 2012 when he ran into then-Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller…
In 2018, as he ran a longshot bid for governor, prominent Baltimore attorney James L. Shea tapped then-Baltimore City Councilman Brandon M. Scott (D)…
The leaders of the teachers’ union and a group representing Baltimore County Public Schools administrators have written to Dr. Darryl Williams, the school superintendent,…
In a pre-holiday message designed to prevent a spike in post-holiday coronavirus cases, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) Thursday said the nationwide distribution…
An associate of a powerful former state lawmaker is one of three new Circuit Court judges nominated by Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R)…
Len Foxwell, the veteran political strategist who until recently was the longtime top adviser to Maryland Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D), is setting up…