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.
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,…
Maryland residents can go online to elections.maryland.gov until 9 p.m. Oct. 16 to register to vote, update their voting information or change their party…
Rona E. Kramer could barely get out a full sentence at the start of Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan’s (R) cabinet meeting in Olney before…
In their only debate of the 2018 campaign, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and Democrat Benjamin T. Jealous clashed Monday on a range…
It turns out Monday’s debate between Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and former NAACP president Benjamin T. Jealous (D) won’t be competing for…
A year ago, David Lashar was a high-ranking bureaucrat at the Maryland Department of Health, a faceless if important cog in the Hogan administration…
Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman (R) has opened up a comfortable lead over his Democratic challenger, according to an independent poll released Friday. The survey,…