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.
Legislation that passed this year includes a provision for $3.5 million to become available for abortion training on July 1, 2023.
Hogan makes the case that Republicans should follow Reagan’s example, harkening back to an era when Reagan rang up landslide victories and expanded the GOP base.
Former Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III launched the first TV ad of his campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination Monday —…
University of Maryland students are pressuring the college administration to expedite a planned conversion of the campus’ fossil-fuel burning power plant. University administrators have…
Gubernatorial hopeful Wes Moore pulled in a coveted Democratic endorsement Friday, when U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer announced his support for the former…
Nine years ago, the General Assembly passed a law governing the natural gas industry that was designed, among other things, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
An Anne Arundel County Democratic activist is launching a political action committee that she hopes will play a similar role in local and state…
With fewer and fewer purple legislative districts in the state, much of the action over the last few election cycles has been in the primary.
It was a tough General Assembly session for the Women Legislators of Maryland, which experienced partisan tension and the (possibly temporary) resignation of its…
The 2022 legislative session turned into a year of great victories for the animal rights movement in Maryland.