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Jill Burcum

Editorial Writer

Phone: 612-673-7846

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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Troopers use laptops on the road, but ticket others for texting?

There's a double standard at work here.

Updated: April 22, 2011, - 10:13 PM

Short take: Balance federal books yourself

Armchair politicians, here's your chance to balance the federal budget.

Updated: April 16, 2011, - 08:05 PM

Nonprofit health insurers feel the heat

Some of it is coming from an 'extremely bright' but 'eccentric' ex-industry insider.

Updated: April 03, 2011, - 09:28 AM

Arne Carlson criticizes Wisconsin governor's tactics

He's not a fan of Walker’s hardline approach and says the state -- and the nation -- would be served by more pragmatic leadership that unites people around public policy instead of dividing them.

Updated: March 30, 2011, - 08:40 AM

Jill Burcum: Will Wisconsin be the GOP's 'overreach' moment?

Also weighing in on Walker's behalf: Americans for Prosperity, a group with strong ties to billionaire oilman David Koch. Koch was the Libertarian Party's 1980 vice presidential candidate; his platform called for abolishing Social Security, the minimum wage and almost all federal agencies while legalizing recreational drugs, suicide and prostitution.

Updated: February 26, 2011, - 06:27 PM