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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2004 Stories by Jim Schutze

• Shhh!

  published June 3, 2004

  Dallas school Superintendent Mike Moses, such a success for four years, has misstepped seriously in handling the inflammatory issue of school... More >>

• Poof

  published May 27, 2004

  So by now you already know City Hall is a magic show, where all the tricks are based on misdirection. Misdirection is when they get you to focus... More >>

• Please, Not a Nut

  published May 20, 2004

  We have a new police chief in Dallas. That's scary for us. If you haven't been in town long, you wonder why. Here's what you have to understand:... More >>

• Dogtown

  published May 6, 2004

  Stop the car--pull over. You need to look at this. We're downtown, and there are people all over the place walking dogs. No, not blind people.... More >>

• Talkin' Doo-doo

  published April 29, 2004

  The Dallas Morning News special section a week ago, "Dallas at the Tipping Point," was really strong stuff. I know, I know. You're just... More >>

• Die, Poor People, Die!

  published April 22, 2004

  The news coverage of Dallas' public hospital is always operatic. In a gleaming castle high above Stemmons Freeway, hundreds of Dr. Schweitzer... More >>

• The Schutze Audit

  published April 15, 2004

  Imagine it this way. You own a vacant building. A guy wants to rent it for a business. You rent it to him for a percentage of his business... More >>

• Disposable Cops

  published April 1, 2004

  Talk about a really bad scene. Senior Corporal Ron Iscaro has been called to the podium to address the members of the Dallas Citizens Police... More >>

• Scapegoats

  published March 25, 2004

  Two weeks ago the mayor and the city council held a news conference slapping themselves on the back for a new law to fight apartment crime. They... More >>

• Cops and Monsters

  published March 18, 2004

  Screenplay: Toiling for years deep in his political laboratory, Dr. Lipscombstein's dream has been to bring his revenge to life. An experiment... More >>

• Bubbaland

  published March 11, 2004

  You're a photo buff. You like to walk around your neighborhood playing with your new digital camera. Some bubba in coveralls with a handgun in his... More >>

• Lysol Miller

  published March 4, 2004

  OK, time out, is it just me? Or is anybody else getting tired of the Scrubbing Bubbles routine from the mayor? Mayor Miller, here's a page... More >>

• Homeless Cleansing

  published February 26, 2004

  We don't want to build a concentration camp. Right? Not even for ugly, smelly people. We wouldn't want to live in a city with a sign on the gate... More >>

• Jerry-rigged

  published February 19, 2004

  Dave Capps is the van rental guy campaigning against a $400 million tax subsidy for a new Dallas Cowboys football stadium. I'm sitting in his... More >>

• Grab for Privates

  published February 12, 2004

  Oh, wow. How very Dallas. A certain set of downtown leaders can't get exactly what they want on the Trinity River project or on downtown... More >>

• Incredible Scam!

  published February 5, 2004

  Once a Yankee, always a Yankee. Every once in a while, I get a certain error message in the eyes of native Dallasites too polite to tell me.... More >>

• Jilted

  published January 29, 2004

  So I'm plugging away one day last week, and a helpful e-mail pops in from the city telling me Dallas Mayor Laura Miller will be available to the... More >>

• Smoke From DPD

  published January 15, 2004

  Nobody at the top gets fake drugs yet. You can tell by the way they keep trying to shuffle the deck chairs. Take the attempts by the interim... More >>

• Happy Next Year

  published January 8, 2004

  OK, here's the deal on 2004. I have a great idea for what we could do with the Trinity River. I should say, I know of a great idea. Like so many... More >>