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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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Governor fires back at Bemidji mayor

The dispute between Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Bemidji mayor Richard Lehmann over Local Government Aid continued Friday on Pawlenty's WCCO...

Updated: February 05, 2010, - 01:47 PM

Jill Burcum: Like them or not, GOP Rep. Ryan offers some budget solutions

There's a reason that southeast Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan often makes the short list of expected 2012 Republican presidential contenders or running mates.

Updated: February 03, 2010, - 06:46 PM

A miracle in Mass.

The Washington Post offered up one of the most intriguing analyses of Republican Scott Brown's Senate victory in Massachusetts last week. Rather than a repudiation of health reform, the article suggested that voters instead rejected the idea of subsidizing health insurance expansion outside the state.

Updated: February 02, 2010, - 04:28 PM