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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.

Maryland Democrats turned to a full-throated progressive in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, selecting former NAACP president Benjamin T. Jealous as their gubernatorial nominee. Jealous, who ran…

With voters now headed to the polls, most people will be focused, when results come in Tuesday night, on the bottom line: Who won?…

Of all the political cross-currents at play in Maryland as Tuesday’s primaries approach, one little-noticed trend in key suburban jurisdictions could have a profound…

An already nasty Republican race for the House of Delegates in the 7th District turned decidedly nastier this week when feuding delegates took their…

Of Maryland’s 3,597,135 voters, 4.8 percent voted in the first seven days of early voting, according to statistics from the Maryland State Board of…

The news cycle for the Maryland angle on the immigration crisis along the Mexican border lasted about four minutes. U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D)…

A Montgomery County Democratic voter has asked the Maryland State Board of Elections to investigate whether Empower Montgomery, a political entity connected to developers…

So you think you’re a political prognosticator? A budding Charlie Cook? You say you’ve been crunching turnout models for that obscure commissioner race in…

The assault by Republican leaders on Anne Arundel County Councilman Jerry Walker (R) — a former county GOP chairman who is seeking a seat…

Three Republicans who were elected to county executive positions in 2014 after serving in the General Assembly have significant fundraising advantages over their Democratic…