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.
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It’s all over but the shouting – and the counting of absentee and provisional ballots. And the recounts. And the finger-pointing. With the Maryland primary…
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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…