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Jeff Severns Guntzel

Jeff Severns Guntzel focused on investigative and data-driven projects, as well as engaging readers for other reporting efforts, as idea generators, sources and content contributors. He was a senior editor at the Utne Reader and has reported from the Middle East and elsewhere for the National Catholic Reporter. he has also covered political and cultural developments from Minneapolis as a staff writer for Village Voice Media.
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Rural Minnesota

For wind-turbine project manager, passion for work pays off

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 12/08/11
"I want to learn the ins and outs of every single thing I deal with," says 24-year-old Jordan Bielefeld of Luverne, Minn.
The Intelligencer

Saying goodbye

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 11/28/11
I am sad to be saying goodbye to MinnPost this week, and this will be my final Intelligencer post.
Data & Maps

Minneapolis residents living below the poverty line

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 11/19/11

The Minneapolis neighborhoods on this map are shaded according to the percentage of residents estimated to be living below the poverty line.

Two Cities

Interactive map: Minneapolis residents living below the poverty line

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 11/19/11
What city neighborhoods have the highest poverty rates? This interactive map details by area the percentage living in poverty and the estimated median household income.
Data & Maps

Contributions to Barack Obama by ZIP code

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 11/15/11

It probably wouldn't surprise you that contributors in the metro area have given the most money to the re-election campaign of Barack Obama.

The Intelligencer

Income inequality in Minnesota's largest counties

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 11/08/11
Eighty-six percent of the nation’s largest counties have more income equality than Hennepin County, according to an analysis of the investigative journalism site ProPublica.
Data & Maps

Minnesota's Failed Banks

By Jeff Severns Guntzel and Kevin Schaul | 11/07/11

The Minnesota Department of Commerce keeps a watch list of problem banks in Minnesota. Just over 36 percent of Minnesota's FDIC-insured banks were on that list in September.

The Intelligencer

Minnesota banks on watch list still at record high, even as fewer banks fail

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 11/07/11
The banks on the Minnesota Department of Commerce's watch list are typically those that dealt mostly with the developers building houses that would eventually be attached to bad mortgages.
Data & Maps

Minnesota Exports to Europe in 2011

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 11/04/11

Minnesota exports to the EU totalled close to $4 billion in 2010, or close to 22 percent of the state's total exports.

The Intelligencer

Interactive map: With Europe in trouble, a look at Minnesota exports there

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 11/04/11
Minnesota exports to the European Union totaled close to $4 billion — about 22 percent of the state's total exports — and of Minnesota's top 25 manufacturing export markets in 2010, nine of them were members of the EU.