Jill Burcum

“I know if it were me, I’d want someone to come looking for me and want to be with family,” Jake Hway said.

The ACA’s expanded assistance ends soon, which could mean higher monthly premiums for farm families and other middle-class Minnesotans, columnist Jill Burcum writes.

"Let’s defuse, not reassemble, the powder keg that led to May 4, 1970," Jill Burcum writes.

Policymakers know that the operating systems used for Minnesota public assistance programs are antiquated. But columnist Jill Burcum was still startled to see them up close.

"The federal government’s public health infrastructure has a serious credibility crisis," columnist Jill Burcum writes.

The Minnesota senator's fiery tweet "suggests that Smith, who will not run for re-election next year, will not serve out the rest of her term quietly," Jill Burcum writes.

“I did not want to see the last seconds of Charlie Kirk’s life. But it was tragically unavoidable,” Jill Burcum writes.

"I suspect one reason we haven’t heard more detail from Walz and DFL leadership on what they’ll propose is because gun regulation is likely something about which their members in vulnerable rural districts have qualms," Jill Burcum writes.

This is the second in Jill Burcum's four-part series of columns about the impact of Trump administration trade policy on agriculture, with a focus on one particular Minnesota farm family, the Johnsons.

Jill Burcum covered both of those tragedies, and the memories of those victims made Wednesday’s tragedy at Annunciation even more painful.