Help keep rural Iowa news and trusted content alive.

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 rural spaces. That's what Burns is doing. His office is located in Carroll, Iowa in the heart of a rural community, in a business incubator known as the HUB 712.

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

Burns covers rural 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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An uninformed rural America is dangerous