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.
Last fall, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh (D) was one of several Democratic state officials from around the country who asked the Environmental Protection…
Happy New Year! And happy election year! After months — even years — of shadow campaigning, we can drop all pretense. This is an…
The invitations keep coming, fast and furious. We can now count close to 80 fundraisers on tap for incumbent lawmakers before the start of…
With 2017 coming to an end, here is a message of thanks and a last-minute call for help from Josh Kurtz, Maryland Matters‘ co-founder…
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Wednesday said his forthcoming bill to offset any negative impacts from the massive federal tax measure that Congress passed…
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…