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.
John D. Porcari, who had two tours as Maryland’s transportation secretary and was deputy U.S. transportation secretary during President Obama’s first term, has a…
Political professionals in Maryland have focused intensely on the races for governor and — to a lesser extent — comptroller during the still-young 2022…
Editor’s note: Maryland Matters reporters sat down with some of the candidates for governor at the recent Maryland Association of Counties conference. Interviews with…
The Hogan administration announced Thursday that $3.7 million in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure is being awarded to 37 sites using funds from Maryland’s…
A highly-anticipated political ritual of the fall has been postponed due to the latest spike in COVID-19 cases. The Western Maryland Democratic Political Action…
With Maryland Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera due to retire next month, the women’s caucus of the General Assembly is urging Gov. Lawrence J….
In his seminal book, “The Selling of the President 1968,” author Joe McGinnis famously describes how a Richard Nixon operative named Roger Ailes arranged…
The U.S. has its first fully approved vaccine against COVID-19, with federal health officials announcing Monday the approval of Pfizer-BioNTech’s two-dose vaccine. The green light from…
The final full day of politicking at the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference ended Friday with six candidates for statewide office circling the…
It rained on-and-off Friday during the crab feast, an eagerly-anticipated ritual that helps cap off the annual Maryland Association of Counties’ summer conference. And…