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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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1999 Stories by Jim Schutze

• The legal commode

  published December 30, 1999

  When people get mad at the Dallas school board, they often talk about how dumb the members are. But the dumbest thing Dallas school boards have... More >>

• Ready to blow

  published December 23, 1999

  Either somebody finds a way to turn down the heat at Dallas police headquarters, or the family feud between the new chief and the old one goes... More >>

• The YM-Bubble-A

  published December 9, 1999

  For the last year, the Park Cities YMCA, which lies at the social heart of ultra-competitive, affluent, sports- and youth-minded Highland Park and... More >>

• Ethics? Um... no thanks

  published December 2, 1999

  Here's a difficult public relations puzzle: Let's say you are the downtown Dallas business establishment, and you are very unhappy about the new... More >>

• The perfect crime

  published November 25, 1999

  The so-called "fraud audit" of the Dallas Public Schools is headed straight to hell. It will never produce significant results or catch any big... More >>

• Da thug

  published November 18, 1999

  In the three months Waldemar Rojas has been superintendent of schools in Dallas, two things have become plain: The only goal he cares about is... More >>

• Calling the cows home

  published November 11, 1999

  Ben Click, our recently departed police chief, had it down: If you want to make it as chief in Dallas, just go to all of the neighborhood... More >>

• The untouchables

  published November 4, 1999

  Here is the quiz: A city employee sees something crooked going on. He reports it. His claims are investigated and found to be completely... More >>

• Bad break

  published October 7, 1999

  Community activist Sharon Boyd, who led an unsuccessful campaign against giving tax dollars to the city's new sports arena, has filed suit to have... More >>

• Rules are for suckers

  published September 23, 1999

  In a few days or weeks, a very hot potato will land with a thunk on the desk of the Dallas city manager, and everyone in the city's architectural... More >>

• Out of the frying pan

  published September 9, 1999

  The FBI case our new school superintendent is leaving behind him in San Francisco seems much juicier than anything so far in our own lackluster... More >>

• Busted

  published September 2, 1999

  The best clue to the shell game going on at Dallas City Hall -- an indicator of the desperation city officials might be feeling over the financial... More >>

• Reno vs. Belo

  published August 19, 1999

  U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno has accused WFAA-Channel 8 television and its owner, the Belo Corp., of criminal complicity in the 1994-1995... More >>

• Rotting away in jail

  published August 12, 1999

  Everyone in the Kevin Young story has a story. Everybody's covered. But if everybody's covered, and if everybody has a story, then how could this... More >>

• Let them play golf

  published July 15, 1999

  citizens group trying to keep Tenison Park in Old East Dallas from becoming a semi-private high-end golf club suffered a defeat recently when an... More >>

• By the way...

  published July 8, 1999

  Imagine the surprise the people opposed to the Trinity River plan felt recently when they opened their June 27 copies of The Dallas Morning... More >>

• Southern fried

  published July 1, 1999

  The campaign to rename Jefferson Davis Elementary School in Oak Cliff seemed to reach a decisive conclusion when the school board voted 7-1... More >>

• $ucker$

  published July 1, 1999

  In the recent election for mayor and city council, all of the rhetoric was about streets, potholes, and basic repairs for neighborhoods. But hold... More >>

• Gimme gimme

  published May 13, 1999

  Waiting for the city to fix your street? Waiting for them to help your elderly neighbors with basic home repairs? To do anything at all to improve... More >>

• Pig in a poke

  published May 6, 1999

  Stung by a recent rejection, thrilled by a rumor that someone attractive might like them, the Dallas school board leaped into the arms of San... More >>

• Big, honking white lies

  published April 29, 1999

  The thing about the current Dallas City Council is that the truth tends to get them all upset, whereas they never seem to mind all that much being... More >>

• Yvonne redux

  published April 29, 1999

  It would be unfair, at this point in time, to paint a portrait of Dallas Independent School District Superintendent-designate Bill Rojas as a man... More >>

• Taking It to the Street

  published April 22, 1999

  This little stretch of Parry Avenue, just northeast of Fair Park, isn't the street of broken dreams. Not yet, anyway. The dream here is still... More >>

• No means yes

  published March 18, 1999

  Lying to taxpayers about their taxes is a basic political skill some politicians grasp sooner than others. Veteran members of the Dallas City... More >>

• Gutless coup

  published March 11, 1999

  The political hush over the Ross Avenue headquarters of the Dallas Independent School District in the last week is no harbinger of peace. Things... More >>