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.
A recent torrent of pollution flowing into the Chesapeake Bay from upstream in New York and Pennsylvania could give new impetus to legislation in…
Turns out there was a Democratic presence at the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference after all. Benjamin T. Jealous, the party’s gubernatorial nominee,…
The University of Maryland is drawing criticism for its decision to reach a lucrative settlement with a football coach whose hard-charging style is under…
As freedom of the press comes under attack [see this recent commentary], please support Maryland Matters, the state’s premier site for news about politics…
As a legislative ethics panel continues to investigate whether Del. Curtis S. Anderson (D-Baltimore City) sexually abused women, and some organizations press the General…
State Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) will be joining Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) for their annual tour of the Ocean City boardwalk…
Thousands of state and local officials, lobbyists, policymakers, political operatives, vendors and other assorted movers and shakers are descending on Ocean City Wednesday for…
Amid the red-baiting name-calling this election season against certain Maryland Democratic politicians, like gubernatorial nominee Benjamin T. Jealous and Montgomery County executive nominee Marc…
U.S. Senate candidate Neal Simon gathered enough valid signatures to appear on the ballot this November as an independent. His team submitted more than 17,000 signatures last…
Maryland Health Secretary Robert R. Neall on Thursday installed two public health veterans in key positions within the agency. Neall announced that Howard Haft…