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.
Woody Allen is not in favor right now, which is understandable due to his reprehensible personal behavior over a period of decades. But there’s…
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Who would have thought, as the last decade dawned, that a real estate guy name Donald Trump would become president of the United States?…
If you hang around politics long enough, you’ll invariably hear a race described by the “lane” each candidate occupies. It’s a simplistic way of…