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.
Although Election Day isn’t until Nov. 3, many Marylanders will be voting early or submitting their ballots by mail for the upcoming General Election….
Earlier this year, two Republican state senators answered President Trump’s call for nominees to a proposed “National Garden of American Heroes” by suggesting that…
Former vice president Joe Biden holds a 32-point lead over President Donald Trump in Maryland, a recent poll shows. Biden was the choice of…
Baltimore County Executive John A. Olszewski Jr. (D) on Thursday nominated Leonard J. Howie III to serve as the county’s director of Economic and…
The Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland wasted no time Wednesday publicly welcoming its newest member ― the first Black Republican woman to ever serve…
With the end of the state’s moratorium on utility service cutoffs looming, Maryland lawmakers on Wednesday heard from regulators, energy assistance agencies, consumer advocates…
A coalition of progressive groups working to defeat a ballot initiative in Montgomery County that would drastically hinder the county’s ability to raise property…
IKEA last month offered to reimburse the state of Maryland for the unemployment benefits the state paid to the retail giant’s furloughed workers during…
David R. Craig, a veteran Maryland officeholder who was the runner-up to Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. in the 2014 Republican gubernatorial primary, announced…
Days after the presiding officers of the Maryland General Assembly crashed a “mock” special legislative session designed to pressure them to schedule a real…