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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3 weeks 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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1 month ago |
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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2 months ago |
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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Nov 6, 2024 |
dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns
Political Mercury 11/6/2024(Editor’s note: Doug Burns is a producer of this documentary.)The a-ha moment struck like spring lightning on the groovy 1970s couch, just a hop, skip and a few blocks from the Simpson College campus. I could read! What a discovery for this little kid in Indianola, Iowa. I can read! The world opened up and swallowed me in all its wonder and pain.
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Sep 10, 2024 |
dmcityview.com | Douglas Burns
Political Mercury 9/10/2024Tom and Ruth Harkin leaned forward in their Fleur Cinema seats in Des Moines in the early evening of July 17 as a film chronicling the civil rights journey of people with disabilities rolled across the screen. They knew the activists, people with a range of physical disabilities, some here, some departed for decades.
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