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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.

Incumbents are winning the money chase in three highly-competitive county executive elections. But the challengers are picking up the pace with the general election…

Incumbents – and quasi-incumbents – continue to have a fundraising edge in Maryland’s most competitive state Senate elections. But the gap between the incumbents…

Strategists for Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) had a field day Tuesday with the news that his Democratic challenger, Benjamin T. Jealous, had…

The bottom line was the bottom line – and it was impressive. But what was even more noteworthy about the memo Gov. Lawrence J….

An occasional feature in Maryland Matters News on the redistricting front: A U.S. District Court in North Carolina on Monday ruled that the state’s congressional map is…

It’s looking like a good year for Democrats nationally. Independent political handicappers believe the Democrats have a better than even chance of seizing control…

Here are some statements from Maryland political leaders on U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who died Saturday of brain cancer at the age of…

Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) is wildly popular in the legislative districts of the General Assembly’s presiding officers, according to Republican-funded polls released…

By the time he was elected governor in 1986, the super high-profile William Donald Schaefer (D) had been mayor of Baltimore for 15 years…

While Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and legislative leaders on Wednesday hailed federal approval of a plan to stabilize Maryland’s health insurance markets,…