The Iowa Mercury
by Douglas Burnsin 🇺🇸 U.S. Politics
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Fourth-generation Iowa journalist dives deep with unpredictable, well-reported writing on rural America's people, politics and culture.
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Douglas Burns is a fourth-generation Iowa journalist. Burns is the former co-owner of the Carroll (Iowa) Times Herald, which was in his family for 93 years.
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