Email Author Jim Schutze

Awards

• 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

  "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"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published April 23, 2009

  "Off Course"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published October 15, 2009

  "Guilty"

• 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

• Culture Wars

  published July 12, 2007

  I waited two weeks. Maybe in that time, I thought, the city's big-hair media (The Dallas Morning News editorial page, D magazine,... More >>

• Go With Your Gut

  published July 5, 2007

  Trust your eyes. Go with common sense. If you've seen pictures of the Trinity River flooded from levee to levee in downtown, believe your gut:... More >>

• Oakley-dokey

  published June 28, 2007

  I can't stand reading The Dallas Morning News because it gives me a gigantic headache. Why would I pay to have something delivered... More >>

• Moral Minority

  published June 21, 2007

  OK, I know you already think I think I'm some kind of East Dallas Mahatma Gandhi or something. I really am not. I believe in profit and private... More >>

• The Leppert Touch

  published June 21, 2007

  The Leppert touch: Buzz believes the devil is not the only one in the details. You can find politicians in there too. That's why... More >>

• No 'Doze

  published June 14, 2007

  Only in Dallas. Ed Oakley, the Democrat in the June 16 mayoral runoff election, is running on a platform of tax giveaways for the rich, highways... More >>

• The Good Laura

  published May 31, 2007

  I have to tell you this story because it's three things: 1) an appalling example of arrogance and sleaziness at City Hall, 2) a stirring example... More >>

• The Magic Touch

  published May 24, 2007

  Carol Reed, the political consultant, told another staff member here at the Dallas Observer that I was "a man without a country" because... More >>

• Laura's Goons

  published May 17, 2007

  OK, I approach a polling place in Far North Dallas on Frankford Road where I see a representative of Mayor Laura Miller out front. He appears to... More >>

• Road Rage

  published May 10, 2007

  Dallas Mayor Laura Miller has conceded to me that the toll road under design for the Trinity River project is a bad road. "The city manager... More >>

• Fresh Eyes

  published May 3, 2007

  In recent weeks the call for a referendum on the Trinity River toll road has come to the center of the Dallas mayoral election. At the end of last... More >>

• Fudge Factor

  published May 3, 2007

  District 9 city council candidate Jill Kotvis called me after I wrote a snarky item on the Dallas Observer's blog, Unfair Park, taking her... More >>

• What a Woonerful World

  published April 19, 2007

  Woonerfs have appeared to me, and now I understand the universe. Even more amazing, for the first time I understand Ed Oakley. Sort of. Ed... More >>

• We See England, We See France...

  published April 12, 2007

  We need to get a few things out of the way right here at the top. Please tell me that I am thin-skinned. Thank you. Now I would like you to tell... More >>

• Vox Populi

  published April 5, 2007

  One of the things you hope you get to see every once in a while in a democracy—at least catch glimpses of—is democracy. Those of us... More >>

• Steve Blows

  published March 29, 2007

  It's true: Nothing brings out the courage or the imagination in this town like the Trinity River project, our gigantic multibillion-dollar plan to... More >>

• Not Your Average Joe

  published March 22, 2007

  I'm still getting used to the notion of Joe Wells as an elected official. But I don't think I'm having near as much trouble with it as he is.... More >>

• Mayor Mudhole

  published March 15, 2007

  This moment shall not pass. Sorry, but I have to ring the timeout bell right here. The first major public political unraveling of the Trinity... More >>

• Cool Cotton

  published March 8, 2007

  Mullets and rebel flags. Those Dallas Cowboys know their target demographic. Here goes. I am going to write about a sports-related issue. I... More >>

• Hunt for Truth

  published March 1, 2007

  You just never know. You go to these incredibly boring City Hall meetings in a back room with people mumbling about fill dirt, and you think it is... More >>

• Bad Mojo

  published February 22, 2007

  When Hutchins police Detective Emily Owens saw the voodoo pot her colleagues had found beneath a bridge, her reaction was an immediate reflex. "As... More >>

• Cheese Holes

  published February 15, 2007

  Sorry, but I feel like Thomas Alva Edison the first time his light bulb lit. I must share. In the last year and a half I have written five... More >>

• W. and Us

  published February 8, 2007

  If we had the equivalent of a national sport just for Dallas, it would be "Tip-toe 'Round the Elephant." I do get why everybody debating the Bush... More >>

• Money-Huggers

  published February 1, 2007

  You don't really have to get too deep into the parts-per-million debate about coal-fired power plants to see the sea change. The really... More >>

• Goodbye, Groovy East Dallas

  published January 25, 2007

  I am concerned for my people. Last summer a neighbor spoke to me on my lawn in Old East Dallas—an artist, one of the original urban... More >>