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 Republican candidate for the House of Delegates in Carroll County is suing a political action committee controlled by House Republicans for defamation. …
A leading Maryland business group came out with its annual scorecard of the General Assembly Tuesday, and as usual, the legislators who are outliers…
The Maryland League of Conservation Voters has rolled out several endorsements of legislative candidates over the past few months. Now, with the primaries just three…
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Blame it on the format – 57 minutes for nine candidates to rush through their talking points, with puzzling, random opportunities for so-called rebuttals…
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The ACLU of Maryland is getting a new director following the retirement of longtime civil rights lawyer Susan Goering. Dana Vickers Shelley, a…
Last week began with a preemptive video from the Maryland Republican Party called “Uninspired” – a commentary on the Democratic candidates for governor as…
If there was any doubt that Montgomery County will play a huge role in the June 26 Democratic gubernatorial primary, Prince George’s County Executive…
Three Republicans who were elected to county executive positions in 2014 after serving in the General Assembly have significant fundraising advantages over their Democratic…