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 developments are part of an ongoing political evolution on the Upper Shore, and particularly in Cecil County.
A petition that sought to remove the head of the Prince George’s County Board of Education has been dismissed.
Non-native plants and vines are choking mature trees and threatening fertile farmland in every corner of Maryland.
Although money isn’t everything in these elections, the candidates’ latest campaign finance reports, filed last week, offer some clues.
Maryland Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles called the Maryland Coastal Adaptation Report Card “groundbreaking.”
The two Democratic contenders have collected record amounts of money for this down-ballot statewide race.
The campaign staffers have joined the Campaign Workers Guild, a five-year-old organization.
Edwards had been gearing up for a campaign after Rep. Anthony G. Brown (D) announced he would run for Maryland attorney general.
Though money isn’t determinative in elections, these fundraising reports, five months before the primary, are key early metrics of the campaign season.
Also on Tuesday, Harford County Executive Barry Glassman, Republican candidate for comptroller, announced a nearly half-million-dollar account balance.