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.
The Baltimore City Council wants to meet with city and state elections officials to probe issues voters faced in casting ballots during the July…
We still don’t have official winners in many critical primary elections from last week, but we still have enough evidence of how things are going to opine.
Senator says the Aug. 23 election presents her with a good opportunity to pivot after losing the GOP primary for re-election last week.
Although this is first campaign for office, Moore lined up a seasoned campaign team and attracted a steady stream of support from an array of elected officials.
Several competitive open-seat Senate primaries are now in the process of being called.
After a day of mail-in ballot counting Thursday, former nonprofit CEO Wes Moore remained in the lead in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, though two…
The fate of several lawmakers could be determined over the next few days by the pending count of mail-in ballots.
Cox’s victory appears to be an incredible repudiation of the state’s popular Republican governor, Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.
Voters in Maryland cast ballots in several county executive primaries on Tuesday. The most closely-watched race took place in the state’s largest subdivision and…
Maryland’s six-year streak of having no women in Congress may be extended.