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.
In 2002, the late Wayne K. Curry, the first Black Prince George’s County executive, dipped into his campaign treasury to hire a well-known national…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) is bringing an old government hand back to his administration and is promoting someone who has worked for…
As the gaze of the political world turns to Georgia, where two runoff elections in early January will determine control of the U.S. Senate,…
Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman (D) announced Tuesday that he is launching a nonprofit education and advocacy organization to promote a progressive agenda…
Del. Neil C. Parrott (R-Washington), who just lost a bid for Congress in the 6th District, is taking steps to run again. Parrott filed…
The Maryland Office of People’s Counsel (OPC), a state agency within the attorney general’s office that represents consumer interests before the Public Service Commission…
MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society, will have an all-female executive leadership for the first time in its 221-year history. The organization installed its…
For decades, State House advocacy in Annapolis has looked largely the same: Well-resourced entities sign up a plugged-in lobbyist ― often an ex-legislator or…
In Maryland, a state with an all-male congressional delegation, and where all three independently elected statewide officials are white males, the news Saturday that…
We’re too exhausted ― as we imagine most of you are ― to say anything particularly sweeping or profound about Tuesday’s elections. The nation…