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.
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…
Days after some of the worst coastal flooding in Maryland history, and as thousands of activists and government leaders gather in Scotland for an…
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the advocacy group dedicated to Bay health, announced Monday that its Board of Trustees has selected Hilary Harp Falk to…
The Maryland Board of Physicians has reprimanded Del. Terri L. Hill (D-Howard), a plastic surgeon, for attending virtual legislative hearings this year while conducting…
One candidate is 32 years old and has a hip, New Age-y first name. He once worked as a community organizer and speaks the…
Del. Anne R. Kaiser (D-Montgomery) announced via a short Facebook post Thursday night that she is stepping down as chair of the powerful House…
Dawn Luedtke, an attorney and civic activist and wife of state House Majority Leader Eric G. Luedtke (D-Montgomery), announced Thursday that she plans to…
The Anne Arundel County Republican Central Committee this week forwarded the name of attorney Rachel Muñoz to Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) to…
Baltimore County Executive John A. Olszewski Jr. (D) said Tuesday he is forming an independent Commission on Ethics and Accountability, to evaluate the county’s…