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

• Go Ahead DISD Trustees. Gut the Magnet Schools. If You Want a City That Aspires to Mediocrity.

  published May 14, 2009

  For the last several weeks, a certain story has emanated from the superintendent of schools in Dallas and also from a majority of the school... More >>

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  Sooner Than Later, DISD Trustees Will Run Out of Legal Excuses They Can Hide Behind

  published May 12, 2009

  I spoke this morning with Ben Barlow, the Fort Worth attorney for the Dallas Independent School District system who had informed me yesterday that no waivers were available under existing law for Dall... More >>

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  DISD Lawyer Says There Are No Waivers For Magnets. But, You See, He's Wrong.

  published May 11, 2009

  At about 5:50 pm today, I received a call from a Fort Worth attorney, Ben Barlow, representing the Dallas Independent School District on the magnet school and learning center issue. He informed me tha... More >>

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  Eddie Bernice Johnson, Others Taking a Keen Interest In DISD Trustees' Efforts to Gut Magnet Schools and Learning Centers

  published May 11, 2009

  Things are popping a bit today on the Dallas Independent School District magnet schools front.Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's office confirms that Johnson is talking to the U.S. Department of Ed... More >>

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  Magnet Mayhem: DISD Trustees Seem Hell-Bent on Gutting the Crown Jewels of the District, and for No Good Reason

  published May 08, 2009

  The Dallas Independent School District is about to do massive damage to its magnet school and learning center programs. The magnets represent the best of the district's academic efforts. The learning ... More >>

• Convention Center Hotel Promoters are a Bunch of Get-Along Business Guys Who May Not Even Realize Their Own Deception

  published May 7, 2009

  Does truth get more difficult the smarter you are? On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton told a Washington grand jury, "It depends... More >>

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  Caution Bordering on Gloom at Last Night's Soul-Sapping Trinity Toll Road Hearing

  published May 06, 2009

  Last night's four-hour "hearing" on the Trinity River toll road was one big toothache for most of the 100 or so folks on folding chairs in the very gloomy, Soviet-seeming Dallas Convention Center Aren... More >>

• Magnet Schoolsr Learning Centersr Great Ideas. So Of Course DISD Wants to Cut Them.

  published May 05, 2009

  The Dallas Independent School District board of trustees seems to be moving toward Draconian cuts in staff and budget for the district's two most distinctive programs, magnet schools and learning cent... More >>

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  Apres Le Deluge, a Trinity Tour

  published May 04, 2009

  I paid a visit today to the Margaret Hunt Hill suspension bridge construction site on the Trinity River because a frequent correspondent had expressed concern about the effects of recent heavy rains. ... More >>

• "Off Course," | Cheap Bastard, | Same Old, Same Old

  published April 30, 2009

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• Get lost with Jim Schutze while canoeing the Neches River and find the wildlife refuge Dallas wants to dam to secure its water supply

  published April 23, 2009

  Can't budge. My 22-year-old son, Will, is standing in the bow of the canoe breaking branches to allow us to go forward. I'm trying to paddle... More >>

• Richard Allen brings jobs to the black community.That makes him racist?

  published April 23, 2009

  With help from Michael Morris, transportation director of the North Central Texas Council of Governments, The Dallas Morning News has... More >>

• Dallas has trouble locating planet Earth

  published April 23, 2009

  Atlas shrugged: On Monday, 14th Civil District Judge Eric Moye put the planet Earth back where it belongs, much to the relief of people... More >>

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  Moye Rules: Earth is Flat!

  published Apr 20, 2009

  At 2:30 p.m. today 14th Civil District Judge Eric Moye put the Planet Earth back where it belongs, much to the relief of people clinging to its surface in one East Dallas neighborhood. In the infamous... More >>

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  In Memo to Council, Angela Hunt Asks Colleagues to Stop Talking Out of Their Asses

  published Apr 14, 2009

  Angela Hunt has delivered a sound thwacking to fellow city council member Ron Natinsky and Assistant City Manager A.C. Gonzalez over some loose-lipped claims Natinsky and Gonzalez have been making abo... More >>

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  If It's Hot Fudge Friday, It Must Be Time for Another Schutze-Rodrigue Throwdown

  published Apr 10, 2009

  Yesterday Dallas Morning News managing editor George Rodrigue took issue with my April 1 column in which I took issue with his attack on the Dallas Observer last month. At this point, I'm sure it woul... More >>

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  Very Simply Put, the Trinity River's Levees Keep Looking Worse With Every Corps Answer

  published Apr 08, 2009

  Well, I think I got some interesting stuff here.The city keeps telling people they're going to "fix" the Trinity River levees. Don't much think so. Looks to me like a whole lot of the existing levee s... More >>

• Report on Trinity Levees Shows A Failure of Dallas' Leadership

  published April 9, 2009

  The crisis over the Dallas levee system represents a total failure of the traditional leadership class in this city. We can and will argue for... More >>

• Ambassador Kirk Is ... So ... So ... So Outraged Over Corps' Trinity Levee Report. Great.

  published Apr 03, 2009

  I'm already getting calls from my Republican friends (I have some! Swear!) who have seen the Todd Gillman story that just went up on The Dallas Morning News's site. In it, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk... More >>

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  Enter Sand, Man

  published Apr 02, 2009

  Astute Friend of Unfair Park "Wylie H." drilled into the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' report on the Trinity River levees yesterday evening and found the real horror story that goes almost unmentioned... More >>

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  John Wiley Price, Still Fit at 59!

  published Apr 01, 2009

  Month or so ago, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price called me up and reamed me out for suggesting he may be carrying water for Ross Perot Jr. and the Perot-dominated Alliance freight airport... More >>

• If only The Dallas Morning News had attacked its Trinity River reporting with the same punch it attacked us.

  published April 2, 2009

  Let's begin with the assumption that you, as reader and citizen, do give a damn what's going to happen along the Trinity River through... More >>

• No Sympathy for Deserters|Dallas: A Great Place for Worship (And Titty Bars)

  published March 26, 2009

  "Gimme Shelter," by Megan Feldman, March 12 More >>

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  Blow, Steve

  published Mar 25, 2009

  Steve Blow writes today on The Dallas Morning News's Metro Blog about Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, the Trinity River toll road and Blow's own support of Leppert in the past:Yet I don't feel misled by the... More >>

• Nyah, Nyah, Nyah: We Told You the Trinity Project Wouldn't Work

  published March 26, 2009

  For 11 years the Dallas Observer has been reporting the existence of serious, fundamental life-and-death design errors in the Trinity... More >>