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

• Don Hill’s Legal Defense May Be Less About the Facts and More About Martyrdom

  published July 2, 2009

  Last Monday, at the end of the first day of the Dallas City Hall corruption trial in federal court, I thought I picked up a little note of... More >>

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  In Corruption Trial, Defense Keep Asking, "But What About Laurar" (Again, Live Bloging)

  published Jun 30, 2009

  Well, looks like the frequent mentions of former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller in the federal Dallas City Hall corruption trial ain't just Dixie. The defense clearly plans to argue that the FBI should hav... More >>

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  Brian Potashnik Will Appear in Federal Court -- To Testify Against Don Hill (Now, a Live Blog)

  published Jun 29, 2009

  I'm at the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse waiting for the afternoon session of the City Hall corruption trial to launch. The feds presented their case this morning. The only substantial ... More >>

• One More Reason Why Adelfa Callejo May Not Get a DISD School Named For Her

  published Jun 25, 2009

  As we mentioned earlier, tonight's jam-packed Dallas Independent School District board of trustees meeting has this among its hot-button agenda items: the naming of an elementary school after Dallas l... More >>

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  So, Turns Out, the City Knew About that Sand Beneath the Calatrava Bridge All Along

  published Jun 24, 2009

  Uh-oh. I'm back in the sand. Just can't keep away from that stuff. I should see a doctor about my sand obsession. I will. Later.Right now I am staring at a table of Trinity River soil boring results I... More >>

• Buzz: Guess which Dallas City Council member is looking all establishment now?

  published June 26, 2009

  Puttin' on the Ritz: Buzz returned from Dallas City Council member Angela Hunt's post-inauguration luncheon held at the Stoneleigh Hotel... More >>

• How Last Week's Torrential downpour forced Jim Schutze To Reflect On His Insignificance In the Universe

  published June 18, 2009

  I was injured by last week's storm, personally wounded in a way that burdens me with a sense of grievance. I am uneasy. But I am having trouble... More >>

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  Taking the Chevy to the Levees

  published Jun 12, 2009

  Last night about midnight I was watching the Trinity River flow gauge in downtown Dallas on the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Information System Web page and saw that the flow was really spiki... More >>

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  Dodging a Bullet (Train): When DART's More About the "Area" Than About "Dallas"

  published Jun 10, 2009

  The concept of regionalism is a Trojan horse designed to gut the city in favor of the 'burbs. If you ever doubted that, take a look at the very close bullet that downtown Dallas just dodged yesterday ... More >>

• Who knew sand flowed under the Trinity? Everybody but the folks building bridges there.

  published June 11, 2009

  Public officials are saying things now about the Trinity River in downtown Dallas that make no sense, are impossible to believe and may even be... More >>

• Would somebody just tell Mayor Leppert? His Trinity River toll road doesn’t have a prayer.

  published June 4, 2009

  The Trinity River toll road is dead. DOA. Cold. Clothespins on noses. The Trinity River toll road is no more. From here on out, it's all bad... More >>

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  This Morning at City Hall, Mayor Tom Leppert Put Lipstick to Levee and Said It'll Be Fine

  published Jun 01, 2009

  It almost isn't possible to describe what Mayor Tom Leppert and a line-up of loyal politicos were trying to accomplish this morning in the Flag Room of Dallas City Hall. Talk about lipstick on a pig.F... More >>

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  In Gutting Learning Centers, the Dallas ISD Clearly Has Learned Nothing in 39 Years

  published May 29, 2009

  Well, we have now officially turned our back on school desegregation. I'm sure some of you will be thrilled. Personally, I'm sitting here at my computer in the back corner of a darkened house at a qua... More >>

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  So Flunked: All the DISD Has Accomplished Is Turning School Against School

  published May 28, 2009

  Tonight's meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees will tell the tale -- several, in fact. First, of course, we have the underlying question: Should the district gut the bud... More >>

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  Be Careful What You Ask: Judge Foster Spills the Beans About an Alleged FBI Investigation of John Wiley Price and the Inland Port

  published May 27, 2009

  In a sworn deposition filed in Dallas today, Dallas County Judge Jim Foster is quoted saying he has spoken with the FBI "on many occasions" concerning an ongoing FBI investigation of Dallas County Com... More >>

• Magnetic Subtraction | Classic Schlock

  published May 28, 2009

  "Magnetic Subtraction," by Jim Schutze, May 21 More >>

• Trinity Toll Road Isn't a White Deal. It's a Bad Deal.

  published May 28, 2009

  You can't really understand Dallas politics without grasping the concept of the white-people deal. It's a key element. I'll give you... More >>

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  Look, It Has Always Paid to Be Royce West

  published May 22, 2009

  Former Dallas Observer ace reporter (and sometime-Unfair Park contributor) Matt Pulle has a great piece up today on the Texas Watchdog Web site revealing that in 2008 alone, state Sen. Royce West's 10... More >>

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  Wherein the DO and the DISD Have a Math-Off Concerning Per-Pupil Expenditures

  published May 20, 2009

  On Tuesday of this week Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander responded to questions I had asked him last week for my column this week about per-pupil expenditures at high school ... More >>

• Hey DISD Trustees! Do the Math on Magnet Schools.

  published May 21, 2009

  A concerted effort is under way to pit communities against each other—especially Hispanic against black—over public... More >>

• South Side Story

  published May 21, 2009

  South Side Story: Turns out the story isn't true. The southern Dallas vote did not deliver the No-vote victory for backers of a... More >>

• Magnetic Reaction | A Day Time Curfew

  published May 21, 2009

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• At Some Point, Maybe, the Council Will Run Out of Trinity Parkway Alignments to Approve

  published May 19, 2009

  Today's meeting of the Dallas City Council's Trinity River committee -- during which the committee endorsed this alignment for the proposed Trinity River toll road - was dull and uneventful in ways th... More >>

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  DISD's Attempt to Gut Magnets, Learning Centers Gets Uglier With Every Misstep

  published May 15, 2009

  Last night's decision by the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees to delay voting on budget cuts for the district's enhanced schools was more than just a stall. The debate leading up... More >>

• “Whine Flu,” | "Dish" | “The Big Buy-In,”

  published May 14, 2009

  "Whine... More >>