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.
Maryland’s “green prom” took place Tuesday night in Annapolis. The Maryland League of Conservation Voters’ annual Awards dinner has grown by leaps and bounds in…
Former U.S. Sen. Joseph D. Tydings (D) died Monday of cancer in a Washington, D.C., hospital. He was 90 years old. Tydings, the adopted son…
Maryland Matters’ Editor Josh Kurtz was interviewed by WBAL Radio reporter Rob Lang recently about the prospects of Republicans flipping five state Senate seats…
As they work toward their goal of flipping five state Senate seats now held by Democrats, Maryland Republicans believe they have put another seat…
Maryland Matters is pleased and proud to announce that we have entered into a content sharing agreement with WTOP, the all-news radio station –…
After emerging from the June Democratic primary by the narrowest of margins, former state Del. John A. “Johnny O” Olszewski Jr. (D) has opened…
Here’s a (former) Republican endorsing a Democrat: Former Anne Arundel County Executive Laura Neuman announced Wednesday that she is backing Democrat Steuart Pittman for her…
Since the Democratic primary, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s campaign has trotted out the names of dozens of Democrats who have decided to cross…
The race for Howard County executive is close – within the margin of error – according to a Democratic poll taken three weeks ago…
A controversial conservative icon is coming to Maryland later this week. Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., a vocal law-and-order politician famous for…