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.
Even as former vice president Joe Biden inches closer to victory in the cliffhanger presidential contest, Maryland Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) ―…
Somewhere in heaven, LBJ is tipping his Stetson to Joe Biden. Former President Lyndon Johnson, who won his first election for U.S. Senate by…
Republican Kimberly Klacik spent millions of dollars on a high-profile challenge to Congressman Kweisi Mfume, but she still couldn’t move the needle Tuesday in…
He’s not on the Election Day ballot. He pretty much threw away his presidential vote when he announced that he was writing in Ronald…
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Capitol Strategies, LLC, one of the top lobbying firms in Annapolis, announced Monday that a founding partner, Robert Johnson, left the company last week….
The headline news is that the governors of Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia signed a compact on Thursday to collaborate and advance offshore wind…
There’s an old joke about Montgomery County voters: that they care more about who is deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce than…
Progressive groups and their Democratic allies are necessarily focused on the week between now and Election Day. And they’re understandably worried about what happens…
The percentage of Maryland voters supporting President Trump’s reelection tracks roughly with the percentage of voters who aren’t worried about contracting the coronavirus, according…