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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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2005 Stories by Jim Schutze

• Rant, Rave

  published December 29, 2005

  Most of the year, I try to live up to the general rule of thumb around the offices of this newspaper, which is: "Every little chance you get,... More >>

• Board of Scrooges

  published December 22, 2005

  So here is how Dallas ushers in the holiday. Last week an obscure city board meeting in the bowels of City Hall stretched the meaning of available... More >>

• Drunk Tellers

  published December 15, 2005

  Michael Sorrell, who was on the city's charter review commission, wrote an op-ed piece for The Dallas Morning News last week praising the... More >>

• Bus Gestapo

  published December 8, 2005

  Let's do it this way. I will tell you this story a few times from different people's points of view, and you can make up your own mind. This is... More >>

• Angel Mayor

  published December 1, 2005

  Don't tell me it's too early to worry about the 2007 Dallas mayor's race. It's never too early to worry. And the next mayoral race is going to... More >>

• Kitty Has Two Daddies

  published November 17, 2005

  I figured this for a typical cat caper. One guy takes a strong liking to another guy's cat. Nabs it. Cops refuse to step in because of an... More >>

• Mapesgate

  published November 10, 2005

  Reviewing Mary Mapes' new book, Truth and Duty, in the November 2 National Review, Byron York opens with a description of the... More >>

• Sticks and Stones

  published November 3, 2005

  Last weekend I'm watching the news on Channel 8, and I see this amazing story. Gloria Campos leads the newscast: "Two men arrested in one of the... More >>

• Spike Dance

  published October 27, 2005

  Hey, I wish you could have been at last week's Dallas City Council briefing. It was Friday night football. John Scovell, a lobbyist who had just... More >>

• The Big Stick

  published October 20, 2005

  There's a difference between the short end of the stick and the long end, between how people get treated when they're well-connected and how it... More >>

• One Guess

  published October 13, 2005

  Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Morning News. I know. You think I'm obsessed and don't have a life. You're... More >>

• Die-In

  published October 6, 2005

  Just about everybody who served or worked with Harriet Miers during her brief political career in Dallas remembers her as a hard-working,... More >>

• Die-In

  published September 29, 2005

  Just about everybody who served or worked with Harriet Miers during her brief political career in Dallas remembers her as a hard-working,... More >>

• PID on You

  published September 22, 2005

  When they come down to City Hall for council meetings, why don't the white people know how to behave? As a white person myself, I find it very... More >>

• Levees Are Not an Act of God

  published September 15, 2005

  At the pit of my own stomach while I watched New Orleans drown was a nauseous awareness. This misery was no natural disaster. This was human error... More >>

• Roots

  published September 15, 2005

  It's not the Chisel Rights Movement. And isn't it interesting that all the same issues coming up around the federal bribery/corruption... More >>

• Thumb Job

  published September 8, 2005

  The origins of the ongoing scandal at Dallas City Hall are in a well-intended bill passed two years ago. This bill is a great example: They pass... More >>

• Race, Race, Race

  published September 1, 2005

  Wait a minute. Before it slips beneath the waves forever, I would like to take a quick second look at the recent Dallas Morning News... More >>

• The Ride, Stupid

  published August 25, 2005

  The Dallas City Council voted last week to protect the man on the plan commission who refuses to say who gives him the luxury cars he drives.... More >>

• Nyuk-nyuk

  published August 11, 2005

  Please try to follow this. You might need a notebook. I'm trying to get across a very complex technical point about urban governance. You're... More >>

• Payback

  published August 4, 2005

  You've had this experience, too, I know. You talk to somebody and not too far into it you think, "This individual is seriously separated from... More >>

• Buzz

  published July 28, 2005

  Intercoursing the pooch: Buzz has always believed the motto over the door of The Dallas Morning News should be, "THE DALLAS MORNING... More >>

• Hope Chest

  published July 21, 2005

  So now the Dallas Independent School District is going to marry the suburban Wilmer-Hutchins district? Let me ask you something. Is this not every... More >>

• Balls for Brains

  published July 14, 2005

  So the fans cheered Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers next time he took the mound after attacking two camerapersons at Ameriquest Field in Arlington on... More >>

• D'Angelo

  published July 7, 2005

  D'Angelo Lee is meeeeelting. If anybody looks like a central figure in the FBI raids on Dallas city officials, it's he. Lee. But he's... More >>