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 Listen to a longtime Democratic activist and donor after sitting down recently with Jim Shea, the Baltimore attorney and civic activist…
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) was the most popular member of the human species walking through the marketplace at the Maryland Association of Counties conference…
When former Gov. Parris Glendening (D) first publicized his support for the Purple Line during his tense 1998 re-election campaign, his Republican challenger, Ellen…
The rolling hills of Williamsport, Md., became Ground Zero for Maryland Democrats Thursday evening. It doesn’t get the attention or the hype — or…
On Wednesday, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) announced that Maryland and the eight other Northeastern states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative had agreed to…
State Sen. Victor Ramirez (D) is poised to enter the race for Prince George’s County state’s attorney, according to multiple sources — setting off…
What is it about Maryland that forces office-seekers to campaign in extreme weather conditions, often while the voters they are trying to connect with…
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) will walk the Ocean City boardwalk on Friday, and he’s sure to receive a hero’s welcome: Hogan, after all, expended…
Maryland Matters will be reporting from the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference in Ocean City — and all the subsidiary events — beginning…
Warren Deschenaux, the executive director of the Department of Legislative Services, who has been an integral part of the budget-making and policy-writing process in…