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.
Theodore G. “Ted” Venetoulis, a former Baltimore County executive who was a power player in Maryland politics and civic life for more than half…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) on Tuesday was unanimously nominated to serve as co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), a partnership of…
About an hour after news circulated Tuesday that his former chief of staff, Roy McGrath, had been charged by federal and state prosecutors for…
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At the same time that Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott (D) signed legislation Monday requiring the city’s three pension funds to divest from the…
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott (D) has tested positive for COVID-19, his office announced Monday. The 37-year-old mayor, who received a single dose Johnson…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) traveled to Virginia Beach on Friday for the annual meeting of the Chesapeake Executive Council, a regional policymaking…
Abortion rights supporters rallied in all 50 states Saturday, including in Annapolis, sounding the alarm over recent laws restricting women’s access to abortions and…
State Sen. Ronald N. Young (D-Frederick) on Friday became the first elected official to endorse former Maryland attorney general Douglas F. Gansler (D) for…
In a voice vote Thursday night, state Del. Erek L. Barron (D-Prince George’s) won U.S. Senate confirmation to become U.S. attorney for Maryland, two…