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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.

The advocacy group Progressive Maryland has launched a new political action committee to elect progressive Democrats in races for the General Assembly and local…

Finally ensconced as the permanent secretary at the Maryland Department of Health, Dennis R. Schrader on Thursday announced several appointments to his senior leadership…

Wes Moore, the Baltimore-based nonprofit executive, is one step closer to entering the 2022 Democratic primary for governor. Moore created a campaign fundraising committee…

As he ponders his political future, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) has hired a national Republican fundraiser to help him chase federal campaign…

Sen. Robert G. Cassilly (R) filed paperwork Tuesday to run for Harford County executive, becoming the second Republican in the race to replace the…

Anne Arundel County has filed a lawsuit against more than two dozen fossil fuel companies over the costs of dealing with the fallout of…

Progressive Maryland, which launched a campaign training program for activists and potential political candidates last summer, announced its second cohort of the Maryland People’s…

The intersecting worlds of Maryland journalism and politics are mourning C. Fraser Smith, a longtime chronicler of state government and politics who died Sunday…

Former U.S. Education secretary John B. King Jr., who announced last week that he’s seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, has begun to assemble a…

Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R), wearing his hat as co-chair of the national nonpartisan political organization No Labels, convened a meeting of more…