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

• Jurassic Stampede

  published June 12, 2008

  Walking along, you find a gigantic bone. Is it a dinosaur? A cow? Do you need to call 911? Learning how to tell is just one thing you can do at... More >>

• Hardballs

  published June 12, 2008

  Sorry, but every once in a while life just hits you over the head. Dallas Area Rapid Transit finds out it's short a billion dollars on its... More >>

• Bushwhacked

  published June 5, 2008

  Peter Lesser, the lawyer, does this abbreviated history of Dallas' image in the world. It goes something like this: "Bump on a log,... More >>

• Fix The Streets Or Build A $500 Million Hotel. Seems Like A No-Brainer

  published May 29, 2008

  Wait a minute. Can we just talk here? I don't get the thing about how the city has a $50 million budget shortfall, but we can afford to build a... More >>

• Dallas Summer Musicals and the Center for the Performing Arts Battle It Out for Broadway

  published May 15, 2008

  Wow. This is starting to feel like a real city. Now we've got real estate mogul Harlan Crow hurling brickbats at media mogul Robert Decherd's... More >>

• DISD Doesn't Deserve to Win Its Bond Election Because of Its Fiscal Incompetence

  published May 8, 2008

  Look at this way: I'm not trying to get you to vote against the school bond in the May 10 election. And even if I were, so what? I'm against... More >>

• Leppert and City Council Loyalists Retreat on Convention Center Hotel Plan

  published May 1, 2008

  Mayor Tom Leppert is still the pilot, but the plane is in stall. No rudder. No engine. Leppert and the whole city council gaze out at the... More >>

• DART Needs to Build a Subway Downtown

  published April 24, 2008

  Look, if you're like me you don't wake up in the morning thinking, "I can't wait to find out what happened overnight in regional rail... More >>

• The Great Trinity Forest Ain't So Great

  published April 17, 2008

  As I hike down from the high embankment of the levee and out of the Great Trinity Forest, rain and dusk pushing me on, not to mention... More >>

• Why Rod Dreher Really Isn't Wild About the Woodrow Wildcats

  published Apr 14, 2008

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• Down-and-Dirty Developers Want Into the Inner City

  published April 10, 2008

  Somebody always says, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Sure. But I have a motto too. Make sure you can tell a gift horse from a damn... More >>

• View from the Top

  published April 3, 2008

  On Friday, the 40th anniversary of the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commemorative peace concert will be presented at Munger Place... More >>

• Why Can't Tom Leppert Count to Eight?

  published April 3, 2008

  Zoning Out: Wait a minute. Buzz thought Laura Miller was the mayor who couldn't count to eight. Now it's Tom Leppert—the new... More >>

• The Dwaine Caraway Show

  published March 27, 2008

  It's a little after 8 a.m. on February 14, and already Dallas Deputy Mayor Pro Tem/District 4 City Council Representative Dwaine Caraway is... More >>

• After Their Murder-Suicide, Questions About Rufus and Lynn Flint Shaw's Shady Dealings Haunt Dallas

  published March 20, 2008

  OK. Let's do this. Colleen McCain Nelson of The Dallas Morning News editorial board has suggested it was tasteless of me... More >>

• Legendary Lens

  published March 13, 2008

  Afterimage Gallery in the Routh Street Quadrangle is showing (and selling) the work of revered LIFE magazine photographer and editor... More >>

• Death in the Inner Circle

  published March 13, 2008

  Prominent Dallas political activists Lynn Flint Shaw and her husband, Rufus Shaw, dead Tuesday in an apparent murder-suicide by gun, were... More >>

• Are Surveillance Cameras the Answer to Rising East Dallas Crime Rates?

  published March 6, 2008

  All of the unmistakable and depressing signs are gathering over my neck of the woods in Old East Dallas. We seem to be in for another spike in... More >>

• DowntownDallas Crowd Can't Find the D-Spot

  published February 28, 2008

  How much do I know about hip? Extremely little. If I found a dead guy by the side of the road, I might say, "This man is not hip." That's how... More >>

• DART's Outside Auditor Seems Too Inside to Expose Secrets

  published February 21, 2008

  Here is what you need to know about DART, the regional transit agency whose recently resigned chairwoman turned herself over to the cops... More >>

• Mayor Tom Leppert Needs to Walk the Ethics Reform Talk

  published February 14, 2008

  In this world anybody can propose ethics reform. Jeffrey Dahmer can propose ethics reform. I can propose ethics reform. And everybody supports... More >>

• Dwaine Caraway Scared DISD Away From Skyline

  published February 7, 2008

  Wow. I always thought Dwaine Caraway was a pretty good-looking guy, but there must be something nasty and scary about him. He sure put the fear... More >>

• DART Doing Fuzzy Math

  published January 31, 2008

  Dallas Area Rapid Transit was conceived in sin. Dallas wanted to father a light rail system, but in order to get the money to pay for it,... More >>

• DART Made a Billion-Dollar Goof

  published January 24, 2008

  You know all those people you see riding the DART train? It costs you $3.66 every time one of them gets on a train. Maybe you're like... More >>

• Skirting The Zoning Laws

  published January 10, 2008

  Dirt skirts. Understand dirt skirts, and you understand the Earth. Some weeks ago I received e-mails from an esteemed neighbor warning... More >>