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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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2007 Stories by Jim Schutze

• Slow Train Coming, And DART Doesn't Care

  published December 20, 2007

  DART, the regional mass transit agency, announced a couple weeks ago that it had underestimated the cost of building a new billion-dollar... More >>

• Sanctuary Isn't Simple for Dallas' Homeless

  published December 13, 2007

  It has been decades since Ron Cowart was a grunt in Vietnam or a SWAT cop on the streets of Dallas, but he still has the bearing. Now head of... More >>

• Inner City Grows Despite Dallas City Hall

  published November 29, 2007

  I have always been a member of the Church of We-Have-to-Save-Downtown. Whatever that means. I sing in the choir. It's a lifelong expression of... More >>

• In East Dallas, HOAs Care If You're an Asshole

  published November 22, 2007

  So if East Dallas is Cool Dallas, then everybody in East Dallas must be cool with each other, right? But in fact it's a strange law of human... More >>

• Trinity Toll Road May Cost More Than Promised

  published November 15, 2007

  Sorry. One more column about The Dallas Morning News and the recent Trinity River toll road referendum, then I promise to do a... More >>

• Sweet/Sour Grapes on Trinity Referendum Results

  published November 8, 2007

  This is one of the worst deadline pickles I think I have ever encountered in my 200 years as a newspaper writer. I am writing this at the end... More >>

• Digging for Toll Road Facts

  published November 1, 2007

  Wait a minute. Think about this. The main argument for keeping the toll road inside the park downtown is that it can't go anywhere else because... More >>

• Just Say Yes to the Trinity Toll Road?

  published October 25, 2007

  Months of More >>

• Gunfight at the Trinity

  published October 18, 2007

  As of a year ago, I had been writing critical stories and columns about the Trinity River project for a decade. I went to work for the... More >>

• Politicians Uniting Behind the Trinity Toll Road

  published October 11, 2007

  How about that amazing line-up of politicians and business groups put together by Carol Reed, the political guru running the Vote No! campaign... More >>

• City Hall's Same Sick Story

  published October 4, 2007

  Black racial treason. That is the underlying theme in this week's federal indictments at Dallas City Hall. It's the same theme that ran... More >>

• Scapegoat

  published September 20, 2007

  Here's what happens. A blogger kicks up some legitimate interest in the way school district employees use their school district credit... More >>

• Baby Mitch

  published September 13, 2007

  Mitchell Rasansky, Dallas City Council member, is somebody I like. I just do. When you like somebody, you typically can't say just why. I... More >>

• Put Out

  published September 6, 2007

  The nightmare anniversaries of both 9/11 and Katrina are upon us—again the dream-warped tracking shots of corpses and tangled rot,... More >>

• Judge 'Droid

  published August 30, 2007

  OK, so you want me to feel guilty about picking on the county judge for being non compos mentis. Jim Foster is an accidental officeholder,... More >>

• Body Snatchers

  published August 23, 2007

  Maybe you're not like me. You don't explain life as science fiction. So you don't think of Dallas politics as The Invasion of the Body... More >>

• Mirror, Mirror

  published August 16, 2007

  President Bush said last week he doesn't think Congress should raise the gas tax to pay for new bridges until it does something first about all... More >>

• In and Out

  published August 9, 2007

  Oh my word. Oh my, oh my. I am looking at this. I don't want to see it. It just came in the mail. This is scary. A couple weeks ago in... More >>

• The Colonel Gets Fried

  published August 2, 2007

  It's a different city now. Fundamentally. Here's why. Last weekend the city secretary ruled that a citizens group had met the legal... More >>

• Jazz It Up

  published March 29, 2007

  The University of North Texas' celebrated One O'Clock Lab Band, the North Texas Jazz Singers and the Kenny Barron Trio will headline the... More >>

• All That Jazz

  published April 5, 2007

  The history of jazz in North Texas is long and deep—there's Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Schutze, Jack Teagarden, T Bone Walker, Harry James and... More >>

• Jim Knows

  published April 12, 2007

  Dallas Observer columnist Jim Schutze will speak Wednesday at the Lakewood Library on "Pictures I have of Laura Miller that could... More >>

• Sci-fi Shorts

  published May 24, 2007

  The World O'Crap blog has called conservative commentator and first-time novelist Tamara Wilhite a Michelle Malkin/Ann Coulter wannabe who... More >>

• Crumbs in the Crowder

  published July 5, 2007

  According to the owner, Pawn Gallery decided to give Detroit artist Topher Crowder his first big Dallas show, "so he wouldn't start hacking people... More >>

• Dim and Dimmer

  published July 19, 2007

  Last week, thinking about how great the newly opened Old Red Museum is downtown—and then thinking about the fact that it's under the Dallas... More >>