Douglas Burns
Political Columnist and Contributing Writer at CITYVIEW Magazine
4th-generation Iowa journalist. Fmr. Carroll Times Herald owner. Writes The Iowa Mercury column on Substack. Founder Mercury Boost, advertising and PR
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4 days ago |
dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns
Political Mercury 6/4/2025Rob Sand knows the outcome at the polls next year depends not just on how Iowans respond to him, the gubernatorial candidate atop his ticket, but Democrat voters themselves. Do voters see everyday Democrats down the street as kind, reasonable and approachable, or hostile and impossibly entrenched?
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1 month ago |
dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns
Political Mercury 4/30/2025Many politicians can persuade you to believe in them. That’s a commonly reached feat. But the defining leaders, elected officials like Tom Harkin, Robert Ray, Henry Wallace and Harold Hughes, are able to summon the inspiration to get Iowans believing in themselves, their own worth and futures.
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2 months ago |
dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns
Political Mercury 4/2/2025Any conflicted pregnant woman who watched the just-concluded Paramount series sensation “Yellowstone” likely scheduled an abortion before the final cowboy deserted Kevin Coster and Taylor Sheridan’s fictional Montana ranch. Costner should reimburse them.
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Mar 5, 2025 |
dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns
Political Mercury 3/5/2025Compound interest. Of all the strands of imagination and provocations and fear and excitement that engage one during Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Weiner’s terrific book, “Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality,” the one that rushes to the fore for me is compound interest. And civil war.
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Feb 5, 2025 |
dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns
Political Mercury 2/5/2025The conversation came rushing back to me sometime between the Carter grandchildren’s heart-tugging memories and Andrew Young’s magisterial closing eulogy during the funeral for President Jimmy Carter. As a 10-year-old boy, I thrilled at the return of my father, Robert Burns, to Carroll from a late 1970s trip to Washington, D.C. — and the White House.
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