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The Iowa Mercury is operated by Douglas Burns, a fourth-generation Iowa journalist who has covered Iowa politics, business and community life for three decades.

It's urgent that we keep trusted news sources in Iowa. That's what Burns is doing. He knows rural and urban and suburban Iowa -- and the full state of 99 counties.

The Iowa Mercury needs your help to keep publishing in Iowa.

Burns covers Iowa and is known as a trusted political writer with strong sources in both Democrat and Republican circles. The Iowa Mercury substack is part of the Iowa Writers Collaborative, a stable of some of the more accomplished journalists and distinguished voices in The Hawkeye State.

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