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.
More than 100 Maryland religious leaders and faith-based organizations have written this week to top state lawmakers, pressing them to prioritize four immigration bills…
Wes Moore, the Baltimore born and bred author, anti-poverty advocate and social entrepreneur, is actively contemplating seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in 2022….
UPDATE: Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) said Wednesday morning that COVID-positive rapid tests recorded at the State House complex on Tuesday subsequently…
State Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D) on Tuesday received the first major endorsement of his 2022 bid for governor: the backing of the Mid-Atlantic…
Henry B. “Hank” Heller, a Democrat who represented Montgomery County in the House of Delegates for two dozen years, died Wednesday at the age…
Julie Verratti, founder and co-owner of a popular craft brewery who was a candidate for lieutenant governor in 2018, said Friday that she is…
House Republican leaders on Thursday identified five pieces of legislation that they are embracing as a package to help small businesses struggling through the…
The League of Conservation Voters released its annual congressional scorecard Thursday, and the Maryland delegation lined up about as expected: Six House Democrats —…
One of the more interesting, if wonky and obscure, legislative debates from the final days of the truncated 2020 General Assembly session was over…
Texas is suffering under its worst winter storm in history, and millions of homes are without power this week. The images are stark, the…