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Jill Burcum

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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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Jill Burcum: Health care vs. defense? Hard choices lie ahead

With a Congressional vote on health care reform looming in the middle of this month, a thoughtful essay in the March 3 New England Journal of Medicine summed up nicely why the status quo really isn't an option:

Updated: March 10, 2010, - 04:41 PM

Health reform: Is Oberstar part of Stupak's pro-life 12?

Could a small but determined group of pro-life Democratic congressional representatives -- possibly including Minnesota's Jim Oberstar -- scuttle health care reform?

Updated: March 04, 2010, - 03:33 PM

Durenberger takes aim at health reform fearmongering

Three cheers for former Minnesota Senator David Durenberger, who took aim Wednesday at the ill-informed rhetoric painting the Democratic health reform bill as some kind of wild-eyed socialist scheme.

Updated: March 02, 2010, - 02:23 PM

Jill Burcum: Summit meets low expectations

Differences bridged: zero. Lines drawn in the sand: too many to count.

Updated: February 25, 2010, - 06:34 PM

So far, health summit highlights differences

Differences bridged: zero. Lines drawn in the sand: too many to count. That’s how things stand after the chaotic morning go-round...

Updated: February 25, 2010, - 01:11 PM

Jill Burcum: A familiar plan

Three cheers for former Minnesota U.S. Sen. David Durenberger, who took aim Wednesday at the ill-informed rhetoric painting the Democratic health reform bill as some kind of wild-eyed socialist scheme.

Updated: February 24, 2010, - 06:31 PM

Healthcare heavyweights call for reform

At times, it’s felt like President Obama is the only one out there trying to resuscitate health care reform after...

Updated: February 24, 2010, - 03:10 PM

Jill Burcum: Health care leaders push reform

At times, it's felt like President Obama was the only one out there trying to resuscitate health care reform after Republican Scott Brown's Massachusetts Senate victory. But this week, with the president's health care summit looming on Thursday, some influential organizations are stepping forward with much-needed public support for a renewed reform push.

Updated: February 24, 2010, - 03:05 PM