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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2000 Stories by Jim Schutze

• You can go home again

  published May 18, 2000

  Here are two thirtysomethings in blue jeans slouching on the porch of a century-old white-pillared house in North Oak Cliff, one of them eating a... More >>

• Paranoia will destroya

  published May 11, 2000

  Get this. A guy involved in city council politics in suburban Southlake, where U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall's wife is on the city council,... More >>

• Al's atonement

  published May 4, 2000

  Al Lipscomb did the crime. He didn't have to do the time. Now let's see if he pays his dime. The sentence U.S. District Judge Joe Kendall gave... More >>

• The shallow end

  published April 27, 2000

  If you want to know what's wrong with the soul of this city, come here and walk with me for half an hour. Our city government system, designed to... More >>

• The art of the touch

  published April 13, 2000

  Some weeks after former city Councilman Al Lipscomb was convicted of bribery in federal court, a local wag said to me, "They railroaded a guilty... More >>

• Lost and found

  published April 6, 2000

  Sonia Even when her bags were already packed in her friend Anthony's car in the driveway, her parents continued to... More >>

• Jack! Jack!

  published March 16, 2000

  OK, confess. You voted for the river thing. You saw the computer graphics on TV with the sailboats on a lake in downtown Dallas. I... More >>

• Whoa, Noah

  published March 9, 2000

  For the last five years, Dallas' downtown business establishment and mayor have staked their prestige on a massive U.S. Army Corps of Engineers... More >>

• Sex, drugs, and city council

  published March 2, 2000

  The $7,700 bribe paid to former Councilman Al Lipscomb wasn't about traffic cops hassling people at a bar, the way the city council and police... More >>

• Diggin' dirt

  published February 24, 2000

  The Trinity River Plan is starting to take on an almost zany quality, like a Marx Brothers movie. The city staff has told at least one council... More >>

• Why Johnny's in the dumpster

  published February 17, 2000

  After three years of hype about how the Dallas Independent School District was finally going to teach kids to read, the jury is now in. It's... More >>

• The girl can't help it

  published February 10, 2000

  If you listen to what people in Dallas are saying on talk radio and in line at the grocery store, you can't help hearing a general undertone of... More >>

• To the rotten core

  published February 3, 2000

  The lesson that should have come out of the Al Lipscomb trial in Amarillo -- the unmistakable lesson for the jury -- is that Dallas is a... More >>

• The plantation burns

  published January 20, 2000

  AMARILLO -- The federal legal charges against Dallas City Councilman Al Lipscomb consist of 65 counts of bribery and conspiracy. But the real... More >>

• Black out

  published January 13, 2000

  AMARILLO -- Last week when Dallas City Councilman Al Lipscomb told his lawyers he wasn't going to plead guilty to corruption charges and would... More >>