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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2009 Stories by Jim Schutze

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  FEATURED STORY

  So You're Saying the Only Person The Dallas News Could Find to Support the DISD Board's Incumbents Was an Incumbentr Yeesh.

  published Oct 30, 2009

  The Dallas Morning News op-ed page always bends over backward to give both sides their say. If somebody turns in an opinion piece saying babies should not be cut into chunks and eaten, they'll hunt a... More >>

• While Glee's Off For Two Weeks, a True-Life, Tigertoned Alternative at Woodrow Wilson

  published Oct 29, 2009

  Here's proof, as if we needed it, that Woodrow Wilosn is the one high school in Dallas capable of producing high-achieving graduates not afraid to appear in international situations wearing odd pants... More >>

• The Mayor’s Proposal for City Council Ethics Reform Misses its Target: the City Council

  published October 29, 2009

  Wait a minute. I know I almost promised last week that I wouldn't write about the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial again soon. But you... More >>

• Feeling sorry that the politically gifted Don Hill got convicted of corruption. Please don’t.

  published October 22, 2009

  Two more things about the Dallas City Hall corruption trial. Then I'm done. I almost promise. I'm having trouble with something. Many... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Tooth Marks: The Brawl at City Hall Over Real Ethics Reform Is Only Just Beginning

  published Oct 19, 2009

  Angela Hunt is putting the bite on the mayor today on the issue of ethics reform.The council is being briefed on possible new ethics rules growing out of the City Hall corruption case. Council member ... More >>

• Downtown Trolleys Are a Good Idea. So You Know It’ll Never Work.

  published October 15, 2009

  Clang went the trolley: We've been following the plan to put streetcars downtown closely (see our story at left) because, being hippies,... More >>

• What Don Hill's Conviction Means for Dallas

  published October 15, 2009

  This terrible City Hall corruption trial we just went through—11 people either found guilty of federal crimes or pleading guilty... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Off Track, or: Some Notes from the City Council's Downtown Streetcar Briefing

  published Oct 12, 2009

  Grudgingly, I have to say that the two Dallas City Council members who asked the best questions at today's council briefing on downtown trolleys were Ron Natinsky and Dave Neumann. Both of them wanted... More >>

• The Jury that Found the Defendants Guilty in the Federal Corruption Trial Was Also Indicting City Hall

  published October 8, 2009

  Out of business: So, it turns out Buzz was right. No matter how you do the accounting, how you structure the contracts, how you... More >>

• Counting DART's Light Rail in Heavy Traffic Leads to One Inescapable Conclusion: Downtown Gridlock

  published October 8, 2009

  What am I doing here with a notebook, waiting for DART trains and being abused by people? I've been out here trainspotting for the last few... More >>

• Dallas Has A Dirty Secret: It Acts As If Supports the Community Gardens Movement, But That's Not the Real Truth.

  published October 8, 2009

  It never occurred to Jan Worthington, an East Dallas yoga instructor, that her idea for a community garden could be controversial. "I simply... More >>

• Still a Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On

  published Oct 06, 2009

  Lots of speculation going on around town about whether the next shoe to fall in Dallas's ongoing City Hall corruption woes may be a Gucci to the head of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price. To... More >>

• After Guilty Verdicts Today, the U.S. Attorney Tells Dallas, You Get What You Pay For

  published Oct 05, 2009

  At a mid-afternoon press conference dealing with the blizzard of guilty verdicts earlier today for five defendants in the Dallas City Hall corruption case, U.S. Attorney Jim Jacks of the Northern Dist... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Now That Don Hill's Been Found Guilty, What About "Business as Usual" at Dallas City Hallr

  published Oct 05, 2009

  rSo, it turns out Patrick "Buzz" Williams was right. No matter how you do the accounting, how you structure the contracts, how you interpret arcane campaign finance laws and city ethics policies, get... More >>

• Another (Russell) Fish Tale

  published Sep 22, 2009

  Dallas pot-stirrer, education activist and computer inventor Russell Fish -- the subject of a Dallas Observer cover story a couple years ago -- is making trouble Down Under. One of Fish's many diverse... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Closing Arguments: The End is Near in the Dallas City Hall Federal Corruption Trial

  published Sep 21, 2009

  Here we sit, waiting for closing arguments to begin in the Dallas City Hall corruption trial in federal court. Judge Barbara Lynn is listening to the lawyers on both sides as they tell her wha... More >>

• You've Been Curbed! Or, Public Works Will Write Tickets, But Not Fix Public Works. Got It.

  published Sep 17, 2009

  This morning, I think I saw the first little indicator of how the city plans to deal with these lean times. I'm coming back up my street from walking my dog, and I see a little natural-gas-powered cit... More >>

• The News' Answer on Trinity Toll Road Flooding Begs the Question

  published September 17, 2009

  In a word: Well, that answers that. Sort of. On Tuesday, Dallas Morning News reporter Rudy Bush attempted to answer a... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Design for Lying: How Can The News Talk Toll Road Design When There Ain't One Yetr

  published Sep 15, 2009

  Rudy Bush has a story in this morning's Dallas Morning News attempting, thank goodness, to do the reporting that Bruce Tomaso did not do yesterday in his blog item about flooding and the proposed Trin... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Wherein Jim's Just Begging to Have His Invite to the Bridging the Trinity Party Rescinded

  published Sep 14, 2009

  I had other work to do this morning, but Robert was right: I couldn't stay away from Old Man River. A bit after noon I ventured down to the site of the Calatrava suspension bridge construction site to... More >>

• As Always, Dallas Politics in Black and White

  published Sep 11, 2009

  Yesterday, in a pitch of live-blogging fever at the Dallas City hall corruption trial, I penned a little missive -- as a sort of aside, really -- about a certain sick symbiosis in Dallas politics betw... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Let's Make a Deal! Don Hill's Back on the Stand, and Schutze is Back at the Courthouse.

  published Sep 10, 2009

  Judge Barbara Lynn, Ms. Punctuality, is 15 minutes late getting the Dallas City Hall federal corruption trial started at the Earle Cabell this morning. Usually she keeps the jury informed about every ... More >>

• Lesson learned from federal corruption trial: How to gain access to the portals of power at City Hall

  published September 3, 2009

  Look at the sequence of events: In early August, Carol Reed, a city council lobbyist and the top political consultant to Dallas Mayor... More >>

• Up the Sleazy River At the Dallas City Hall Corruption Trial

  published August 27, 2009

  Aghast at the river of sleaze oozing out of the Earle Cabell Federal Building in the past two months, reformers on the Dallas City Council have... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Five Council Members Lobby for Transparency at Dallas City Hall. Good Luck With All That.

  published Aug 24, 2009

  Five Dallas City Council members want the city to think about requiring people to register as lobbyists if they get paid to influence the council. The ongoing Dallas City Hall federal corruption tria... More >>