Josh Kurtz

We may face a constant firehose of crazy and unsettling news from the federal government, but Miranda Spivack's new book reminds us that we can't lose sight of what our state and local governments are doing – or not doing, writes Josh Kurtz.

The Maryland Association of Counties meeting this week will talk about upcoming state issues, but it's just as likely to focus on elections a year off. And while 2026 looks sleepier than 2022, analysts say voter disquiet could spring some surprises.

Maryland Democratic Party Chair Ken Ulman, long a player on the state political scene, said Wednesday night that he will resign effective June 13. Gov. Wes Moore (D) plans to nominate Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman for the job.

Jake Day, the secretary at the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, is beginning to raise money for a possible challenge to U.S. Rep. Andy Harris (R-1st), Maryland Matters has learned.

“The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue,” by Mike Tidwell, is a look at how climate change decimated the tree canopy on one Takoma Park street, but it's also a meditation on the larger issue and a look at the people trying heroically to do something about it.

Tisha Edwards, who loyalist of Gov. Wes Moore (D) who served the past two years as his appointments secretary, will leave in April to become the next president and CEO of the Maryland Bankers Association, it was announced Friday.

Making Maryland Matters: As he prepares to step back for a break, founding editor Josh Kurtz looks back at how, and why, Maryland Matters came to be and continues to be important.

A divided Board of Public Works on Wednesday ended a bumpy, years-long process to find a concessions operator at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, awarding a lucrative 23-year contract to the incumbent concessionaire.

Gov. Wes Moore's promised bill to expand and modernize Maryland's efforts to protect the Chesapeake Bay got its first public airing Tuesday but left several stakeholders, including likely supporters, confounded by its complexity.

Beverly Byron, part of a powerful and durable Western Maryland Democratic family and one of only 11 women elected to represent Maryland in Congress, died Sunday of heart failure at her home in Frederick, surrounded by several members of her family. She was 92.