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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.

It’s customary for members of the General Assembly to invite lobbyists to their political fundraisers. Not only might the lobbyists themselves contribute to the…

It’s graduation season, meaning hundreds of thousands of American high school, college and graduate school students are about to hit the job market. Where…

The leaders of the Maryland Bankers Association announced Tuesday that they have appointed Anirban Basu, the colorful and quotable Baltimore economist, as the organization’s…

Other than my mom, who left this Earth a decade ago, the deceased person I’ve probably missed the most over the past five years…

Charly Carter, who has worked in key roles for several progressive groups in Maryland, will take over as executive director of the Democracy Initiative,…

Marylanders across all congressional districts strongly support the Biden Administration’s American Jobs Act and the investments it would make in climate, clean energy, good-paying…

Michael Rosenbaum, the Baltimore tech entrepreneur who launched his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination this week, has hired Travis Tazelaar, a veteran Maryland…

The governors of the six Chesapeake Bay states, along with the mayor of Washington, D.C., and the head of the Chesapeake Bay Commission, have…

A public health professional and scientist who until recently worked on Capitol Hill is taking aim at state Sen. Benjamin F. Kramer (D-Montgomery). Zachary…

As women’s groups push to increase their representation on the Montgomery County Council, where only one of nine members is currently female, two women…