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.
The goal in any election is to get 50% of the vote plus one — or, in a multi-candidate field, to get one more…
President Biden on Tuesday nominated two lower court judges to fill vacancies on the U.S. District Court for Maryland — his first judicial nominees…
On the latest episode of Maryland Chatters, we to talk to three of the late Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr.’s former chiefs of staff.
On the latest episode of Maryland Chatters, we to talk to three of the late Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr.’s former chiefs of staff.
When Woody McCutchen, a veteran foundation leader, grants administrator and government official, heard that his old friend Jon Baron was thinking of running for…
When the General Assembly concluded months of contentious debate by voting in 2019 to transfer regulation of alcohol and tobacco from the state comptroller’s…
The family of Thomas Bloom Raskin, the late son of U.S. Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) and former U.S. deputy Treasury secretary Sarah Bloom…
As Baltimore County Executive John A. “Johnny O” Olszewski Jr. (D) contemplates whether to run for governor in 2022, a quiet but vigorous campaign…
With the Democratic field for governor essentially to himself for now, Maryland Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) on Thursday rolled out a list of…
A House committee has rewritten a bill from a Republican lawmaker that was designed to require state and local elected officials who charge their…