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 House Speaker Mike Busch (D) and Senate President Mike Miller (D) will be on Capitol Hill in early January, raising money with the…
Dozens of Maryland lawmakers will begin the new year with their palms extended. About 70 legislators and other state officials, who are banned from…
Democratic gubernatorial contender Ben Jealous continues to rack up union support. Jealous, the former NAACP president, will be endorsed Thursday morning in Baltimore by…
Senate President Mike Miller (D) is keeping it All in the Family. Maryland Matters has learned that Miller intends to hire Patrick Murray, a…
When state Sen. Victor Ramirez (D) decided to run for Prince George’s County state’s attorney rather than seek a third term, it was initially…
When Warren Deschenaux, the Maryland General Assembly’s veteran fiscal guru and top staffer, announced earlier this year that he planned to retire, legislative leaders…
It’s funny, when you moderate a political debate and then read about it. As I write this, I’ve read four stories about Thursday morning’s…
It’s easy to forget in Maryland that our junior U.S. senator, Chris Van Hollen, is chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Van Hollen…
It’s a rare day that Maryland Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles finds himself happy to be around garbage, but this was one of those days….
Democratic gubernatorial contender Alec Ross’ campaign manager has been on the job for a week, and he likes what he sees so far. Shaun…