Email Author Jim Schutze

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Dallas Morning News Tippy-Toes Away"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 20, 2011

  "How Not to Humiliate Yourself as a Journalist"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Picking Apart The Dallas Morning News' Smug Sense"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 6, 2011

  "Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published May 5, 2011

  "The Trinity River's 'Standing Wave' Crashes into Reality"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published July 7, 2011

  "So John Wiley Price Really Wanted Some Land..."

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published September 29, 2011

  "Lowering the Bars"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published May 27, 2010

  "Into the Wild"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 11, 2010

  "Hammer Time"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 1, 2010

  "Mr. Unknown"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2010

  "Low Riders"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published May 27, 2010

  "Into the Wild"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 23, 2010

  "Return to Sender"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published October 28, 2010

  "Going to Extremes"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published April 23, 2009

  "Off Course"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published October 15, 2009

  "Guilty"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published April 23, 2009

  "Whitewashing Reality"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 24, 2009

  "Irony City"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 23, 2009

  "Whitewashing Reality"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 26, 2009

  "The Fall Guy"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 21, 2008

  "Eat My Dirt"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 31, 2008

  "What's in a Nombre"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 17, 2008

  "No Nature for Old Men"

• 2009 - Lone Star Awards, published November 20, 2008

  "What Chutzpah!"

• 2008 - Lone Star Awards, published October 4, 2007

  "City Hall's Same Sick Story"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published November 18, 2004

  "Call 911"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published November 18, 2004

  "Call 911"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published May 19, 2005

  "Bozo Rules"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published June 16, 2005

  "Stuff It"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published January 13, 2005

  "Garbage to You"

• 2006 - Katie Awards, published April 7, 2005

  "Mayorzilla"

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1998 Stories by Jim Schutze

• Bait and switch

  published December 10, 1998

  According to The Dallas Morning News and its City Hall reporting staff, the news on the Trinity River project over the last three months has been... More >>

• The garden of life

  published December 3, 1998

  The act of stepping in off the street through this gate, into this place, is a silent shock to the system, a trick on the soul. You begin... More >>

• Peep-hole power

  published November 5, 1998

  Every community in the world has some small subset of busy bees who work behind the scenes to make things happen, but in Dallas it's always been... More >>

• Give her what she wants

  published October 15, 1998

  After a long weekend in Phoenix with officials of the U.S. Olympic Committee, Dallas boosters came home this week facing what may be the toughest... More >>

• Watching us, watching them, etc.

  published October 1, 1998

  Dallas Observer reporter Jim Schutze is claiming The Dallas Morning News "subtly misrepresented" remarks Schutze made to Morning News reporter... More >>

• Going for the gold

  published September 17, 1998

  Perhaps the mayor and The Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Citizens Council forgot to mention it when they said a Dallas Olympic bid would not... More >>

• Some Fly, Some Die

  published September 10, 1998

  On his path to the White House, George W. Bush must pass by the Dallas Independent School District--the Bates Motel of local politics. (Think of... More >>

• Politically incorrect

  published August 27, 1998

  Dallas Morning News executives have threatened to halt publication of the Dallas League of Women Voters' election guide because of the league's... More >>

• All wet

  published August 6, 1998

  Buried at the back of a report by the Army Corps of Engineers is an admission that the $2 billion Trinity River project may make flooding in the... More >>

• Raw deal

  published July 23, 1998

  On his way out the door, departing City Manager John Ware is setting up a sweetheart tax-dollar giveaway to former Governor Bill Clements and... More >>

• Hispanic enough

  published July 9, 1998

  Mexican-American leadership in Dallas has pretty much resolved the question of whether the city's new city manager, Ted Benavides, is Hispanic. It... More >>

• Death on tap

  published July 2, 1998

  In late May, when Dallas AIDS activist John Thomas learned he was infected with a microbe called cryptosporidium parvum, he finally decided to... More >>

• Cursed are the peacemakers

  published June 11, 1998

  The early results are in. And preliminary indications are strong that Laura Miller's transition from longtime Dallas columnist to neophyte Dallas... More >>

• Unfairness doctrine

  published May 14, 1998

  A mini-revolt is brewing among Dallas Morning News reporters who believe the paper's coverage of the Trinity River bond election was... More >>

• Fly Boys

  published May 14, 1998

  If boys could fly, the world would look like Eisenbergs. Scores of boys on in-line skates, skateboards, and BMX bikes are perched atop enormous... More >>

• Business as usual

  published April 16, 1998

  At the heart of Laura Miller's investigative report "Clueless" on Al Lipscomb in the May 30, 1996, Dallas Observer was Lipscomb Industries, a... More >>

• Attack of the geeks

  published April 2, 1998

  A loose alliance of computer experts, dubbed the "Geek Garrison" by their leader, has descended on the Dallas Independent School District,... More >>

• City Hall's Slam-Dunk Gang

  published March 12, 1998

  City Manager John Ware sat stone-faced, staring straight at Larry Duncan while they did it to him. Mayor Ron Kirk turned away, trying to gloss... More >>

• Poop on the scoop

  published February 5, 1998

  Faced with the single biggest embarrassment in the modern history of their newspaper, top Dallas Morning News editors went to great lengths last... More >>

• Baby, it's them

  published January 29, 1998

  Black and Hispanic community leaders--at each other's throats in recent months over the Gonzalez-Harden mess at DISD--are drawing together, very... More >>

• Flood money

  published January 22, 1998

  If the grand plan to rebuild the Trinity River floodway through Dallas ever gets done--a one- to two-billion-dollar package of levees, parks,... More >>