Saturday January 5, 2013
Jill Burcum
Editorial Writer
Phone: 612-673-7846
Email: jill.burcum@startribune.com
Jill Burcum has been an editorial writer since March 2008, joining the editorial board after working in the Star Tribune newsroom as an editor and reporter. She writes on a broad number of topics, but is particularly interested in health care, suburban issues and energy policy. Burcum has won numerous awards for her news coverage. Her work helped spur an FDA shutdown of a Georgia tissue bank and caused a Minnesota company to pull a dangerous supplement off the market after football player Korey Stringer's death. In 2009, she won her second Premack Award for public affairs journalism for an editorial that called for a nonpartisan inquiry into ethics allegations in the state attorney general's office. Burcum graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington in 1991 and started her career as a reporter for the Rochester Post-Bulletin. Burcum lives in Andover with her husband and two children.
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Recent content from Jill Burcum
We're getting fatter and that means higher health costs
Sorry to rain on the Minnesota State Fair's annual celebration of everything deep-fried, but there's a sobering new obesity study out that's worth noting.
Updated: September 02, 2011, - 06:15 PM
Minnesota nurses honor fired hospital lawyer
The award is fitting for David Feinwachs, who was fired for raising critical questions about state payments to nonprofit health plans.
Updated: August 25, 2011, - 02:07 PM
Newsweek exploits Bachmann, female politicians
The news magazine that featured Sarah Palin in a Hooters-like outfit is at it again. This time its target is female presidential contender Michele Bachmann.
Updated: August 08, 2011, - 03:13 PM
(Updated) Predicting an end to the debt ceiling debate
Here’s Star Tribune editorial board member Jill Burcum's best guess as to how it will unfold.
Updated: July 29, 2011, - 02:44 PM
Dairyland ad is dirty politics
Somebody is impersonating actor Morgan Freeman in Wisconsin attack ad.
Updated: July 28, 2011, - 07:48 PM
In praise of heat
It's impossible in this Amazon rainforest heat to venture outside and not feel like a soggy, oversteamed vegetable in less than a minute.
Updated: July 18, 2011, - 07:14 PM
Michele Bachmann vs. Bill O'Reilly
Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann found herself on the hot seat Monday night in a usually friendly place: Fox News.
Updated: July 12, 2011, - 12:00 PM
Pawlenty vs. Bachmann
Why attacking her legislative record isn't likely to pay off for Pawlenty.
Updated: July 12, 2011, - 10:09 AM
Jill Burcum: Elder statesmen and the state budget impasse
If they can stake out the middle ground and provide a new, uncreased roadmap to get there, they’ll have done a real service for the state.
Updated: July 05, 2011, - 05:59 PM
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