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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2008 Stories by Jim Schutze

• Since When Did the Trinity River Project Come to Mean "Ferris Wheel"r

  published Dec 31, 2008

  I actually love the way news pops up in The Dallas Morning News. I pick up the paper every single morning and feel as though I'm visiting a foreign city for the first time. Every story, even the most... More >>

• A Dash of SALT, or: Inside the Infamous Inland Port Proposal

  published Dec 24, 2008

  Santa came to my desk a day early. I have been papering City Hall with public-records requests for several weeks, and today, just in time, I finally got the one document I was hoping for: the written ... More >>

• Port Whine: Delays on Inland Port Part of Familiar Pattern

  published December 25, 2008

  Go for a helicopter ride with me, will you? Let's look down on Dallas from some perspective. And, uh, sit a few inches farther away from me and... More >>

• Why Mayor Tom Wouldn't Admit to Running for Senate Even If He Were

  published Dec 23, 2008

  Wick Allison committed an act of journalism today by calling Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and asking him if he's going to run for Kay Bailey Hutchison's seat. Leppert gave him an answer that was not "No,"... More >>

• Fine. Be For the Hotel, Dallas News. Just Be Honest About Why.

  published Dec 22, 2008

  The Dallas Morning News says in an editorial today that voters should support a half-billion-dollar taxpayer-owned hotel downtown near the convention center and reject a ballot proposal next May that ... More >>

• Foster's Brook, or: The Dallas County Judge is Smarter Than He Lets On

  published Dec 19, 2008

  This should be said: One of the heroes in the otherwise ugly stupid saga of the inland port development in Southern Dallas has been Dallas County Judge Jim Foster.First of all: He figured it out. A ve... More >>

• Congresswoman Calls Out John Wiley Price for Shaking Down Development Deal

  published December 18, 2008

  It may not be Blago in Chicago, but it's definitely malice in Dallas. In fact the word that keeps popping up in relation to a master plan... More >>

• Dallas's Council Reps Send Very, Very Mixed Signals Over Int'l Inland Port

  published Dec 16, 2008

  I'm working on a new theory of life. I used to think the City of Dallas was obviously the big cheese in the region -- the wheel -- and that all of the little surrounding municipalities were sort of ... More >>

• For Now, At Least, Mayor Leppert Won't Try to Sink the Inland Port

  published Dec 11, 2008

  It's over.Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert just cried "Uncle!" in the battle over the Southern Dallas "inland port," an expandable map of which is available at right. Chris Heinbaugh, the mayor's spokesman, c... More >>

• In Which Jim's Not Jealous of Laura Miller at All. Not One Bit. Whyr

  published Dec 11, 2008

  Under the headline "Refined Refuge," Traditional Home has come up what we news types here in Dallas might consider a pretty decent scoop. They have a story that answers the question: Where the hell ha... More >>

• What's Commish John Wiley Price's Real Beef With the Inland Port?

  published December 11, 2008

  I will put my bleeding heart up next to anybody's bleeding heart. Community activist and blogger Sharon Boyd once told me, "Schutze, you're so... More >>

• Look, How Much Regional Government Do We Need, Anywayr

  published Dec 09, 2008

  The Dallas Morning News this afternoon posted an editorial urging people not to worry about so-called new extra levels of government and taxation being created to make their lives hell. The editorial ... More >>

• Cynthia Dunbar, Meet Michael Piazza. Michael Piazza, Meet Cynthia Dunbar.

  published Dec 05, 2008

  I have been worried about why George W. Bush wants to move back to Dallas. What does it say about us that he feels welcome herer Obviously he has chosen an address that may be outside the Park Cities ... More >>

• Is the Trinity River Toll Road on a "Fast Track" to Completionr Um, No.

  published Dec 04, 2008

  Rudy Bush had a good story in The Dallas Morning News yesterday about the new Trinity River "overlook" unveiled by the city on Wednesday and how handy it is if you want to go down and marvel at the la... More >>

• Dallas' Inland Port of Gall

  published December 4, 2008

  I write a lot about how the city, Dallas proper, needs to defend itself against the suburbs. Sometimes I feel as if we are an urban Jerusalem... More >>

• Meandering Back to the Trinity River Project -- Oh, What Memories!

  published Dec 02, 2008

  Oh, what a nice morning. I had an opportunity to check back in on an old companion of mine, the Trinity River Project, and I'm delighted to say the old boy hasn't changed not a jot nor a tiddle. Still... More >>

• Studying the Dallas School Board and the "Theory of Action for Change"

  published Nov 28, 2008

  One of the more astounding discoveries I have made about the Dallas school board is that its recent behavior has been based on a so-called "theory of action for change" -- part of a program called Th... More >>

• DISD: Hitting Bottom, Then Reaching for a Shovel to Dig Deeper

  published November 27, 2008

  Wait a minute. How many times are we going to discover that DISD is stupid? I do not think—and I suspect you do not think—it's even... More >>

• Why Doesn't DISD's HR Director Live in Dallasr 'Cause She Doesn't Have To.

  published Nov 21, 2008

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• Party with DISD's Teachers from Abroad

  published November 20, 2008

  Snubbed again: A lot of times people have parties and they get so darned busy, they forget to invite Buzz. Buzz knows how embarrassed... More >>

• DISD Trustees May Make Cutbacks in Democratic Process

  published November 20, 2008

  Go ahead and say it. Sometimes you think I make things up. I know you do. I don't blame you. I can't even believe this stuff half the time... More >>

• Is Destroying the DISD Really the Best Way to Fix Itr Seriously.

  published Nov 19, 2008

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• Precisely How Many Deadly Sins Can DART Commit at Once, Anywayr

  published Nov 18, 2008

  Everybody needs to watch the ongoing KTVT-Channel 11 series by Bennett Cunningham on over-the-top spending at Dallas Area Rapid Transit. People also should go look at the incredible Web presentati... More >>

• Dr Well, Maybe D-.

  published Nov 13, 2008

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• Why is Mayor Leppert Putting the Brakes on Dallas' Inland Port Future?

  published November 13, 2008

  This is a bad story about our city. I am going to tell you that our mayor and other people at City Hall are in the process of screwing around... More >>