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.
For 50 years, Democrats have imagined that a high turnout of young voters will help their candidates. But the enthusiasm and turnout they desire is often illusory.
On Tuesday alone, Moore picked up the endorsements of President Obama and Gabrielle Giffords and held a virtual conversation with Hillary Clinton.
With the Democrats favored to win back the governor’s mansion, putting a visible Republican at the head of the tech council is a noteworthy move.
A limited view of the office vs. a more expansive one.
Despite some whispers in Annapolis, Democratic nominee rejects the idea that there are any hard feelings from the primary.
What the numbers say about the possibility of Maryland congressional seats changing hands.
More than 120 people have applied for the five vacancies on the Montgomery County Planning Commission.
The stakes were reflected in the urgency and ferocity of some of the attacks the candidates hurled at each other.
In politics, the enemy of an enemy can become a friend.
Incumbents continue to have strong fundraising advantages over their challengers.