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.
Even as the concept of public financing has grown more mainstream across the country, state lawmakers have been reluctant to embrace that reform for themselves.
Maryland’s former Commerce Secretary and GOP gubernatorial candidate Kelly Schulz has found a running mate from within the Hogan administration.
Yuripzy Morgan disappeared from the WBAL radio airwaves last week in fairly dramatic fashion, and now she’s running for Congress.
The timing of the report’s release is designed to pressure lawmakers to divest all state pension fund investments from fossil fuel companies.
With just 11 months left in his term, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) submitted his last round of nominations to state boards and commissions Friday.
With these nominations, Gov. Hogan has now made seven appointments to the Court of Appeals, and only one of the sitting judges will have been appointed by former Gov. O’Malley.
Two state Senate races to watch — one on the Eastern Shore and one in Western Maryland.
No one seems sure about who has the authority to grant a school district permission to impose a vaccine mandate.
Two political heavyweights vying for a vacant Southern Maryland House seat.
Beginning Monday, all Senate committee hearings will be held in person, and the full Senate will have floor sessions almost every day.