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.
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…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) is upping his opposition to a statewide ballot initiative that would give the General Assembly more say in…
A leading Annapolis lobbying firm has tapped a young veteran of Maryland politics to join its ranks. Rifkin Weiner Livingston LLC announced Monday that…
The Maryland Catholic Conference on Sunday celebrated the news that Pope Francis plans to elevate Washington, D.C., Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory to the College…
Maryland Democrats expressed outrage and alarm this week about an executive order issued quietly by President Donald Trump on Wednesday night that could change…
In 2012, when gambling interests were spending tens of millions of dollars to bring a massive casino to National Harbor and allow table games…
Baltimore City Council President Brandon M. Scott, the Democratic nominee for mayor, released a list Tuesday of the nine leaders of his transition team….
Jason F. Weintraub, who has spent the past eight years as a General Assembly staffer, including a stint as senior legislative counsel to Speaker of…