Email Author Jeff Severns Guntzel

2008 Stories by Jeff Severns Guntzel

• Your Friendly Neighborhood War Profiteer

  published July 2, 2008

  Retired Army Officer Louise Morgan stands at a podium, flanked by six flags: one each for America, Minnesota, the Army, Navy, Air Force, and... More >>

• Minnesota's Thin Slice of the Military Pie

  published July 2, 2008

  Last month, a flatbed truck left the three-million-square-foot BAE Systems facility in Fridley and traveled east, its covered cargo destined... More >>

• Domestic Abuse Service Center faces deep cuts

  published June 11, 2008

  When Hennepin County opened the Domestic Abuse Service Center in 1994, it was a pioneering attempt to create a one-stop shop for victims of... More >>

• The 10 most powerful Minnesota Republicans

  published May 28, 2008

  When the Republican National Convention comes to St. Paul in September and the city's otherwise sleepy streets are pulsing with journalists,... More >>

• Dosh's World

  published April 30, 2008

  In a booth at a neighborhood pub in south Minneapolis, a slumped and bearded Martin Dosh is staring into his beer, tapping his fingers on the... More >>

• Sex, Drugs, & Awesome Hair

  published March 19, 2008

  ON MAINSTREET in Hopkins, a bar called Decoy's shares the street with an antiques mall and a bead store. On a... More >>

• Professor recalls "nightmare" corruption in Iraq

  published February 13, 2008

  In Baghdad, four square miles called the "Green Zone" have been carved out and fortified with a winding concrete blast wall that protects the... More >>

• Nothin' But Trouble

  published February 13, 2008

  On a weekday in the spring of 2006, Linda Clewette, a 57-year-old transcriptionist and self-employed candy machine vendor, slid into a booth at... More >>

• Alec Soth stays sane by staying put

  published January 23, 2008

  If Beverly Hills has a Main Street, it's Rodeo Drive—three blocks of palm trees and designer boutiques with names like Armani, Gucci, and... More >>

• Foodie Fight

  published January 9, 2008

  There has long been an unspoken etiquette among local food writers and restaurants: When criticism is dished out, it comes sweetened with... More >>