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 spirit of Mitch McConnell and ALEC, a Koch brothers organization, is present in the Maryland State House ― and some Democrats are OK…
The political rumor mill started churning at warp speed Wednesday following news that Robert K. Hur, the U.S. attorney for Maryland since 2018, plans…
House Majority Leader Eric G. Luedtke (D-Montgomery) has been tapped to lead the Democratic response to Republican Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s State of…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) announced Monday that he will deliver his annual State of the State address on Wednesday evening ― virtually….
It looks like Democrats will have a contested primary in Maryland’s 1st congressional district in 2022. Three days after Heather Mizeur, a former state…
A bitter, years-long political dispute ended quietly over Zoom on Friday, in a short meeting full of procedural jargon and bureaucratic niceties. With that,…
There are many ways to skin a cat and, in the General Assembly, there appear to be many ways to confront the climate crisis….
William C. Baker, longtime president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, announced Thursday that he plans to retire later this year after 40 years on…
Heather Mizeur, the former state delegate who ran a surprisingly strong bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 2014, announced Thursday morning that she…
Ashwani K. Jain, a former Obama administration official who ran unsuccessfully for Montgomery County Council in 2018, announced Wednesday night that he plans to…