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Jeff Severns Guntzel

The Intelligencer, by Jeff Severns Guntzel, focuses on investigative and data-driven projects, as well as engaging readers for other reporting efforts. Reporting efforts include crowd-sourcing experiments and interactive news apps.

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Minnesota's First-Term Legislators

02/05/12
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MinnPost launches Data & Maps hub -- have a look

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 10/28/11
MinnPost's Data & Maps page is a place where you can view the best of our work in mapping and data visualization.
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Interactive maps: Minnesota's newest citizens, where they are from and where they've settled

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 10/25/11
Of the 5,728 Somalis naturalized in the United States in 2010, 35 percent live in Minnesota. On the other end of the spectrum, of the 67,000 newly naturalized Mexicans in 2010, not even 1 percent were in Minnesota.
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MinnPost's new data tool: You are part of the experiment

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 10/20/11
We've added a new tool to our data toolbox, and we want you to give it a test drive.• Minnesota donors to Bachmann in the 3rd quarter• Minnesota donors to Pawlenty in the 3rd quarter• Top donors to Bachmann
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Cash on hand for Minnesota's U.S. House incumbents

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 10/19/11
Have a look at the cash on hand for each of Minnesota's House incumbents. The campaign engines are idling.
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As OccupyMN settles in, Tea Party comparisons surface

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 10/14/11
The OccupyMN protests are one week old today, and two sizable coalitions of angry citizens find themselves on the same page — almost.
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On the scene with OccupyMN: My stories and yours

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 10/13/11
From the twice-daily General Assembly meetings to the hand signals everybody knows and understands, this is what it's like to be in the middle of the Minneapolis occupation. What is your story?
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OccupyMN Day 1: Tweets, photos, and other dispatches

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 10/07/11
Hundreds gather on the Hennepin County Government Center plaza in downtown Minneapolis to protest corporate power.Related: OccupyMN protesters slide showEarlier: OccupyMN launches in downtown MinneapolisMayo
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OccupyMN launches in downtown Minneapolis

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 10/07/11
I've collected tweets and images from the first hours of the protest. Will you be joining the protests?
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Why forest fires are good -- and amazing

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 09/23/11
University of Minnesota forest ecologist Lee Frelich explains what the BWCA would look like if fire were somehow completely controlled for the last century. The short answer: a sea of half-dead Christmas trees.
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Famous Minnesota fires: A look back in photos

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 09/22/11
Forest fires can be confounding and frightening things. In a state like Minnesota, they are part of our lore.
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Michele Bachmann's rise: An interactive timeline

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 09/16/11

Michele Bachmann needs no introduction. Or does she? Type Bachmann's name into YouTube and you'll have a day's worth of watching queued up before you.

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Visualization: The rise of the post office (when it wasn't so poor)

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 09/09/11
With the postmaster general pleading poverty, what better time to consider the history of the postal system in America?
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Visualizing the growth of newspapers in Minnesota and the U.S.

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 09/02/11
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Interactive map: Visualizing the growth of newspapers in Minnesota

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 09/02/11
Let us take a break from the endless chatter (and my trade's pity parades) about the future of the newspaper and consider its history. That is much more exciting than it might sound.
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News app: What kind of legislation did first-term lawmakers introduce last session?

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 08/30/11
Here's an easy way to see how many bills each first-termer introduced last session and then to parse that legislation.
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Contributions to GOP presidential candidates

By Jeff Severns Guntzel | 08/26/11

A creative data visualization and cartography team in Washington has presented FEC data on individual contributions to GOP presidential candidates in an unusually beautiful map.