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.
A billionaire cofounder of Facebook has invested $500,000 in a new political action committee set up to defeat Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich in…
Republicans will be using the very same playbooks they used to bludgeon Ben Jealous in 2018 and Anthony Brown in 2014.
Progressives for Progress is a new political action committee created and funded completely by real estate interests.
Frederick County Executive Jan Gardner came out in support of former U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez’s bid for governor on Monday. “Tom Perez has…
The Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe v. Wade may be reordering Maryland politics just 3 1/2 weeks before the state’s primaries.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New York law that made it illegal to carry a firearm in public without showing a special need for protection — throwing into doubt the legal status of a similar Maryland law.
PAC for the People has largely been funded by progressive philanthropists and education reform groups. It has raised $306,028 since launching last fall.
Congress appears unlikely to pass a holiday on the federal gas tax, while in Maryland legislative leaders continue to resist a call to go into special session.
The three-hour virtual meeting was an early step in a federal environmental review process that is likely to take two years.
Party leaders are scheduled to address the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and By-laws Committee on Thursday afternoon, as the DNC looks to shake up the nominating process across the nation.