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

  "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 - Lone Star Awards, published November 20, 2008

  "What Chutzpah!"

• 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"

• 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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2009 Stories by Jim Schutze

• We Interrupt Our Regular Broadcast for Schutze to Say Something Positive About the City

  published December 31, 2009

  Normally what newspaper writers do at the end of year is fulminate—rant and rave. But I do that all year long. So for me the end of the... More >>

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  Kissin' Cousins: Who the Hell Came Up With That List of Would-Be Mayoral Candidatesr

  published Dec 28, 2009

  Reading The Dallas Morning News is easy. I don't know why people complain. I had at least three conversations Sunday with grumpy people all upset and confused about the Gromer Jeffers story in the Sun... More >>

• Why Is Dallas City Hall Trying To Bury The Burgeoning Farmers Market Movement Under A Morass Of Municipal Regulation?

  published December 24, 2009

  How many people in Dallas know that our downtown farmers market is outclassed and out-performed by the farmers market in Detroit? Or that... More >>

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  Behind the Constables Investigation, JWP, KwanzaaFest and an Accommodation

  published Dec 22, 2009

  I want to confess in advance. I, Jim Schutze, am a party to the KwanzaaFest scandal. It's all going to come out now. I knew this would happen. I'm ready for my hands-over-the-face paddy wagon shot now... More >>

• Civility is the Last Thing the DISD Board Needs

  published December 17, 2009

  The cabal that has always controlled the Dallas school district—and that includes the editorial page of The Dallas Morning... More >>

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  Wherein DPD Chief Kunkle Tells Schutze Why He Didn't Talk to News for Crime-Stats Story

  published Dec 15, 2009

  As Unfair Park already noted earlier this morning, The Dallas Morning News has a hell of a story this morning about the Dallas Police Department and the feeling of some experts and involved citizens t... More >>

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  When It Comes to Gardens and Markets, City Hall Has Right Idea ... and the Wrong Solution

  published Dec 14, 2009

  Now, it's on to that community gardens and neighborhood farmers market briefing. Follow along at home. Try to keep up.A city staff guy, Eric Griffin, is talking to the city council about community gar... More >>

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  Schutze's High on City Hall as Council's Transportation Committee Chair Puts Positive Spin on DART's Texas-OU Mishap

  published Dec 14, 2009

  Linda Koop, chair of the city council's Transportation and Environment Committee, and Gary Thomas, president of Dallas Area Rapid Transit, are having a mutual smooch-fest today at this afternoon's com... More >>

• Wherein Schutze Apologizes to Commissioners Ken Mayfield and Maureen Dickey

  published Dec 11, 2009

  I owe an apology to the members of the Dallas County Commissioners Court for remarks in my column this week. I write that they sat idly by and did nothing during a recent outburst by Commissioner John... More >>

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  That Zoning Fight Over Simon David Has Moved From the Neighborhood to City Hall

  published Dec 09, 2009

  [Editor's note at 4:27 p.m.: Jim has opted to turn this item into a live blog concerning the afternoon's doings at Dallas City Hall. The Simon David debate has wrapped with a vote in favor of the stor... More >>

• Sting Like a Butterfly: Hey, John Wiley Price, Are You Ready to Rumble?

  published December 10, 2009

  Here's the question. Who's ever going to finally kick John Wiley Price's ass? Here's the answer: Me. I have made up my mind. John... More >>

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  Grocer, Point Blank: Randall's Says That "New" Simon David is All But a Done Deal

  published Dec 04, 2009

  Well, looks like Randall's Food & Drugs, which owns the Simon David at 7117 Inwood Road, thinks they've got next week's zoning vote at city council in the bag.I wrote to Connie Yates, their PR per... More >>

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  Has Woodrow Wilson High School Aged Better Than Adamson, Or Does it Just Have a Heckuva Lot More White Kidsr

  published Dec 04, 2009

  Jon Dahlander, spokesman for the Dallas Independent School District, posted a comment on Unfair Park today that perfectly expressed the school system's official position on the preservation/demolition... More >>

• Why the Trinity River Project Could Be a Windfall for the Lawyer Who Sues the Army Corps of Engineers

  published December 3, 2009

  I love plaintiff's lawyers. I wish they were way richer. I hate "tort reform." Plaintiff's lawyers are cool, because they sue the socks off... More >>

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  While Waiting for Corps' Report on Calatrava Bridge, a View from the Collapsed Levee

  published Dec 01, 2009

  Pins and needles here.At 2:30 pm the Corps of Engineers releases its report on the city's proposed fix for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. They're doing it not at any public venue but at the Oak Lawn o... More >>

• Adamson High School Alums Are Fighting DISD to Preserve the School Building and Their Bond With Its Students

  published November 26, 2009

  I have been a reporter all my working life, half of that time for daily newspapers, so who knows what volume of fish-wrap I must have ground... More >>

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  Hunt to Corps of Engineers: Really, Take Your Time With That Levee Remediation Thing

  published Nov 24, 2009

  After the jump, you'll find a letter Angela Hunt sent today to the Fort Worth District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in which she begs Troy D. Collins, the deputy district engineer, not to hurr... More >>

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  What Does Judge's Ruling Against Corps in New Orleans Mean For the Trinity Projectr

  published Nov 19, 2009

  I am still trying to absorb the 189-page ruling of U.S. District Court Judge Stanwood J. Duval yesterday in the Corps of Engineers Katrina lawsuit in New Orleans, but an early read of it produces this... More >>

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  When It Comes to the Trinity River Project, History Keeps Repeating Itself, Repeating Itself

  published Nov 18, 2009

  Your Trinity River correspondent and advice-to-the-lovelorn columnist, which would be me, had two interesting experiences yesterday. First up was a screening of Living with the Trinity, KERA Televisio... More >>

• Hey Mayor Leppert: Want Ethics Reform To Have Some Real Teeth? Take Away the Power of the Table.

  published November 19, 2009

  Supposedly we just had ethics reform at Dallas City Hall. Let's talk about ethics. But let's talk about the real world. There's this... More >>

• Even Stephen Hawking Couldn't Figure Out the Fuzzy Math Behind How We Are Going To Pay For the Trinity River Park.

  published November 12, 2009

  This is so sad. It's tragic. I'm going to write about the Trinity River project again. I did all 12 steps. For what? After the voters... More >>

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  Wake and Bake: Notes From Last Night's Q&A With Woodall Rodgers Deck's Parkitect

  published Nov 11, 2009

  Almost 200 people squeezed into a stuffy Dallas Center for Architecture conference room last night to see plans for the deck park being built over the Woodall Rodgers Freeway, and guess what, Dallas! ... More >>

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  Schutze is Live-Blogging This Morning's Council Vote on City Hall Ethics Reform

  published Nov 09, 2009

  This morning the city council is debating lobbyist reform, and the lobbyists are all here. And nervous. They have their own corner of the city council chamber, front row, extreme left (from my directi... More >>

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  Just When You Think You've Heard Every Last Bit of WTF Concerning the Trinity River ...

  published Nov 03, 2009

  rOh, you caught me here at my desk doing a little quick calculation, totting some things up, always a dangerous exercise for a history major. I picked up what I thought was jarring news during... More >>

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  If You Think Ethics Reform at City Hall Was All Mayor Tom's Idea, Pass That Pipe, Willyar

  published Nov 02, 2009

  In an editorial today The Dallas Morning News gives all the credit for better ethics at City Hall to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert because, "In the end, Tom Leppert didn't blink." They must have sent a gre... More >>