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.
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…
The Washington County Republican Central Committee on Monday nominated educator Brenda Thiam to fill a vacancy in the House of Delegates. If she is…
Maryland was ranked No. 8 in a recent nationwide survey on union strength. SmartAsset, a financial news website, rated all 50 states for the…
Lisa Feldt, until recently an official at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation who has also held top positions with the Montgomery County government and the…
The outcome of the presidential election in Maryland is hardly in doubt, but former vice president Joe Biden has hired two professional political operatives…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) has cut two digital ads for one of the most embattled U.S. senators on the ballot this fall,…