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.
‘Flip’ was a garrulous raconteur whose love for politics came through in all his writing, even as he regularly exposed politicians’ foibles.
Any agreement with the Orioles before the end of the year would require a last-minute BPW vote.
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We’re remembering our co-founder’s many contributions to Maryland Matters on the fifth anniversary of his death.
With the Maryland Department of the Environment set to release a final recommendation in a matter of days on what the state needs to…
Vendors who operate businesses in the airport must negotiate their leases with the company that holds the concessions contract from state government.
Now there are six. Del. Mark S. Chang (D-Anne Arundel) will become the sixth state legislator to seek the 3rd District congressional seat, which…
Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk asserts the county executive’s pitch to Prince George’s Latino Democrats is coming too late.