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.
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…
The “Drive for Five” runs through Hogan Country. But whether Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and his fellow Republicans reach their final destination…
Eight races for Senate Democrats currently hold a commanding 33-14 seat edge in the upper chamber, but if Republicans can flip five seats, they’ll…
Governor As soon as Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan (R) was elected in 2014, Democrats sought to cast his victory as an anomaly and assumed…
Seven of Maryland’s “Big Eight” jurisdictions are electing executives and councils this year. Baltimore city is the exception; city officials are chosen in presidential…
Scores of Maryland politicians were burning up social media Thursday on the extraordinary Senate Judiciary Committee hearing feature Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee…
Another statewide poll, another solid lead for Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) over his Democratic challenger, Benjamin T. Jealous. This poll, conducted Monday through…
So here we are, hours away from an electrifying and potentially history-altering Capitol Hill hearing on sexual assault, and still #MeToo is roiling Annapolis….
Thirty-six members of the Maryland General Assembly – all Republicans – have voted in lockstep with small business interests over the past four years,…