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.
Republicans and conservatives have a full schedule of counter-programming to President Biden’s rally in Rockville.
Maryland’s past three Democratic governors held executive positions in local government before winning statewide office and took many of their colleagues with them to the State House.
Different generations of Maryland Republican women were in the spotlight on Tuesday night.
A stark reminder of the looming turnover in state government came during the governor’s annual cabinet reception last week.
Peroutka says ‘armed citizenry’ will protect Marylanders’ rights, but quickly corrects himself.
How do you press the flesh at an event where all the participants have Old Bay on their hands?
The state’s political gravitational pull has shifted perceptibly in Ocean City this week.
County officials flock to session focusing on the looming competition for federal infrastructure funds.
The Maryland State Fraternal Order of Police issued a brief statement this week highlighting the state’s largest police union endorsements in the upcoming general…
In his first election cycle as the upper chamber’s leader, Senate president Bill Ferguson (D) is proving that he’s no slouch on the fundraising front.