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 Maryland Multi-Housing Association, a trade association for owners and managers of multi-family homes and apartments, has hired a new lobbyist. The Owings Mills-based…
Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) expressed satisfaction Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a federal lawsuit that the state and the…
Nearly half of Maryland’s 47 state senators entered their third year in office with at least $100,000 in their campaign accounts, a Maryland Matters…
Two years ago, Del. Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) and state Sen. Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) were the legislative equivalent of middle managers —…
Del. Brooke E. Lierman (D-Baltimore City), who promised to be an aggressive campaigner and fundraiser when she launched her 2022 bid to become state…
State Comptroller Peter V.R. Franchot (D), the sole declared candidate for governor in 2022, had $2.2 million in his campaign treasury as of a…
Former state Sen. Thomas M. “Mac” Middleton, the former chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, has signed on as a lobbyist with Cornerstone Government…
For 30-plus years, the late Senate president Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D) was one of the most skillful fundraisers in Maryland politics. Now,…
Baltimore County Executive John A. Olszewski Jr. (D) will report on Wednesday that he raised $805,750 in the past year ― a significant amount…
Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) wasn’t the only Maryland governor to get his COVID-19 vaccination on Monday. Former Gov. Parris N. Glendening (D)…