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.
A House committee has rewritten a bill from a Republican lawmaker that was designed to require state and local elected officials who charge their…
David Blair, the businessman and philanthropist who finished just 77 votes out of the money in the 2018 Democratic primary for Montgomery County executive,…
Anthony McCarthy, the former journalist and political strategist whose professional stops have included a stint as editor of The Afro-American newspaper in Baltimore and…
Despite being on the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee’s voting list Monday, legislation to provide protections for and establish trust between Maryland’s undocumented residents and…
On a day when the House of Delegates pushed through dozens of bills in a mad dash to pass legislation before the end of…
Ordinarily, the announcement that a county councilmember was going to seek a second term wouldn’t necessarily merit much attention. But Montgomery County Councilmember William…
Former state Sen. Victor R. Ramirez (D-Prince George’s) is planning to try for a political comeback in 2022. The 46-year-old former lawmaker announced last…
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott (D) and Montgomery County Executive Marc B. Elrich (D) have each brought on new communications professionals in their teams…
With “Crossover Day” fast approaching in the Maryland General Assembly — the deadline to guarantee that a bill that has passed out of one…
Scarlet Oak Strategies, the political consulting and public affairs firm started by Raymond Glendening, a veteran Maryland-based Democratic strategist, is expanding. The firm announced…