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
Short take: An early bet on GOP in budget in stalemate
Dayton’s leverage in budget negotiations now depends on how long he’s willing to keep core constituencies out of work.
Updated: July 01, 2011, - 04:59 PM
Short take: AMA backs health plan mandate
The nod of support from the nation's most influential doctor's organization is a triumph of pragmatism over ideology, according to Editorial Writer Jill Burcum.
Updated: June 21, 2011, - 03:21 PM
Bachmann strategist was right
Ed Rollins stepped on some sensitive toes in the Palin camp, but he’s absolutely right. And he doesn’t owe anybody an apology.
Updated: June 10, 2011, - 10:13 PM
(UPDATED): The Americans are coming! The Americans are coming!
Sarah Palin's twisted take on Paul Revere’s historic ride.
Updated: June 06, 2011, - 09:26 PM
Jill Burcum: Paulsen's diligence
It's clear why many see him as the go-to guy in Congress on complex medical device regulatory issues.
Updated: June 04, 2011, - 09:18 PM
Mississippi should have made list
A prominent river advocacy group missed an opportunity in the past week to highlight the plight of Minnesota's south-metro stretch of the Mississippi River.
Updated: May 22, 2011, - 08:38 AM
Iran 'spy trial' delayed; Minnesotans remain hopeful
Without explanation, Iran called off the scheduled hearing today of two U.S. hikers.
Updated: May 11, 2011, - 11:28 AM
Celebrations of bin Laden's death in poor taste
The exuberance on display Sunday night did not compliment our nation.
Updated: May 02, 2011, - 05:45 PM
Short take: Reagan budget guru on the attack
David Stockman derides Democrats and Republican deficit-reducing plans.
Updated: April 25, 2011, - 09:08 PM
Short take: Anoka County losing 'class act’
Longtime Anoka County Board member Dan Erhart had it exactly right when he was asked earlier this year to sum...
Updated: April 23, 2011, - 12:46 PM
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