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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.

Ashwani Jain, a 32-year-old former Obama administration official, is running a low-budget, unconventional campaign that is helping him develop an agenda on climate change and countless other issues.

As he travels the state promoting his second campaign for governor, former Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler (D) tells voters he’s the only candidate with significant experience on the climate front.

The political fallout continues from former state Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters’ decision earlier this year to resign and take a seat on the University…

U.S. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) on Monday endorsed Del. Jazz M. Lewis (D-Prince George’s) for the open 4th congressional district seat,…

Tuesday’s election results — in Virginia, in New Jersey, and elsewhere — will be interpreted, reinterpreted and misinterpreted again and again over the next…

Maryland’s deputy comptroller, Sharonne R. Bonardi, is leaving at the end of the year to become executive director of the Federation of Tax Administrators….

The 2022 Democratic race for governor hit the airwaves Thursday, with two candidates beginning to air spots. Both Democrats, tech entrepreneur Michael Rosenbaum and…

A community organizer and progressive activist who lives in Silver Spring announced this week that he plans to run against Sen. Jeffrey D. Waldstreicher…

In the corporate world, the term “turnaround artist” has mixed connotations. On the one hand, it’s a person who knows how to rescue a…

The head of the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) tried to block a provision under consideration by the state’s Climate Change Commission on Monday that…