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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2001 Stories by Jim Schutze

• The Salazar Doctrine

  published May 3, 2001

  Maybe we should approach this biblically. In the book of Luke, we are told that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world... More >>

• See No News, Print No News

  published April 26, 2001

  Let me tell you a story. Sophia Dembling, a Dallas writer, sends The Dallas Morning News a letter a few weeks ago to make a... More >>

• Bare Knuckles and Bare Breasts

  published April 26, 2001

  Does Dallas have a red-light district? Does the Pope live in Rome? It's 2:30 a.m., closing time on a Sunday morning, and customers are... More >>

• Dump Bolton

  published April 12, 2001

  So maybe you figure the Dallas Observer wants to do stories to help Laura Miller get elected mayor because she used to work here. I... More >>

• Twice Told Tale

  published March 22, 2001

  Far from changing his tune suddenly in the last two weeks to accuse the Dallas police chief of wrongdoing, the main witness against the chief... More >>

• White Rampage

  published March 15, 2001

  In the controversy over police Chief Terrell Bolton, our first black police chief, we need to keep in mind the danger of riot. The white... More >>

• Crocodile Tears

  published March 8, 2001

  Next May we will vote in a citywide referendum on whether to pay the Dallas City Council its first full-time salary in half a century. The... More >>

• Shut Up, Fido

  published March 1, 2001

  This is such a strange town. You could never explain this place to a Martian, or a person from St. Paul, or somewhere like that. The Dallas... More >>

• Bush-whacked in the Bulrushes

  published February 22, 2001

  Brand-new superintendent of schools Mike Moses is getting his first taste of white water in the bulrushes. The problems he is running into are... More >>

• Go on, Oppress Me

  published February 8, 2001

  Consider this: The city's first black police chief is fighting off an investigation of his own department for racial profiling. The first black... More >>

• You Say Commie, I Say Nazi

  published February 1, 2001

  Did you know we have commie judges in Dallas? At least I think they're commies. Now look, I could be wrong. They may be Nazis. I'm going to leave... More >>

• Attitude Check

  published January 18, 2001

  Why is Houston plain and simple and aboveboard even when it's wrong, and Dallas is sneaky and convoluted even when it's right? Urban karma? Their... More >>

• Legal Learning Differences

  published January 11, 2001

  I happen to be a lawyer fan. I like them. I actually enjoy watching them. So I have some theories about them. This particular theory is about why... More >>