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.
By Josh Kurtz Several Democratic state senators that Republicans are targeting for defeat in 2018 fared significantly better on a business group scorecard released…
By Josh Kurtz As Maryland Republicans sketch out their strategy for capturing five Democratic-held state Senate districts in 2018, the seat now occupied by…
By Josh Kurtz Shortly after President Trump announced Thursday that he was withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate agreement to which more…
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) had three doors he could walk through after the Democratic-led General Assembly passed a version of paid sick leave legislation…
When Gov. Larry Hogan’s office released the list of the 200-plus bills he plans to sign into law on Thursday, conspicuously absent was the…
Former Attorney General Doug Gansler (D) fares better in a head-to-head matchup with Gov. Larry Hogan (R) than four other Democrats who are also…
Emerge Maryland, the group that trains Democratic women to run for political office and has established itself as a major player in state politics,…
By Josh Kurtz Today’s political potpourri: Behind a mysterious “help wanted” ad; Hogan gets closer to Trump; Muslims mobilize. MANNO MYSTERY SOLVED: This “help…
By Josh Kurtz On Monday evening, Reps. John Sarbanes (D) and Elijah Cummings (D) will appear along with an array of health care advocates…