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.
Some of the developments in the bill’s legislative journey can no longer be found on the General Assembly’s website.
Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot is scheduled to tour Bowie State University with U.S. House Majority Whip James Clyburn and state Del. Darryl Barnes, the chair of the Legislative Black Caucus.
As the General Assembly moves closer to passing major legislation to address climate change, several big corporations have written to lawmakers urging them to…
The U.S. has just eight operating Liquified Natural Gas processing plants – and one of them, Cove Point, is in Lusby, in Calvert County.
It may be an arranged marriage of convenience, but state Sen. Katie Fry Hester (D-Howard) and some of the Democratic constituents she could wind up representing seemed delighted to meet each other on Monday.
Baltimore County is traditionally the major battleground in gubernatorial general elections, if not quite the bellwether. But it could also play an outsized role in this year’s Democratic primary as well.
The Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant is the site of ongoing illegal discharges into the river.
Legendary former U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D), the first woman to be elected statewide in Maryland, offered her first endorsement of the 2022…
Following nearly 2 1/2 hours of debate, the Senate gave preliminary approval Friday to the Abortion Care Access Act, which would allow nurse practitioners,…
Perez’s 30-second spot is noteworthy because it appears to be narrated by President Obama.