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

• Meanwhile, Down at the Trinity Overlook ...

  published Feb 05, 2009

  The Trinity River Project calls on all of us to use our imaginations. Standing before the scenic overlook, I imagine a beautiful river bordered by clever cafes and chic shops and folks of all shades ... More >>

• Union Puts the Squeeze on Tax Breaks

  published February 5, 2009

  "Very seldom could you pull off an accord in a project if every time you had to wait for some kind of public referendum. The timing justdoesn't... More >>

• Just Another Boring Trinity Story

  published Feb 03, 2009

  It's the tale of two cities: In this Dallas Morning News story, today's closed-door meeting between staffs of the City of Dallas and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is all about irritating bureaucrat... More >>

• First George W. Bush, Now Kwame Kilpatrick. Dallas, How Lucky Can One City Getr

  published Jan 29, 2009

  The Friends of Unfair Park know what's happening. Just this morning, one of them hopped on a four-month old item about Detroit's disgraced ex-mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, to warn Dallas about his impendin... More >>

• Stroll to the Future: Walkable Neighborhoods are Next for Dallas

  published January 29, 2009

  "We have a policythat says we willnot expand theaccess into our city by even one laneof additionalautomobile traffic." Unfortunately... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Trinity Parkway Already Taking Its Toll

  published Jan 27, 2009

  The Dallas City Council's Trinity River Corridor Project Committee gets a briefing at 9:30 this morning on hurdles facing the Trinity River toll road project. They'll have people there from the North ... More >>

• Slumdog Millionaires

  published January 22, 2009

  On January 9, Nelson wrote a signed column for the op-ed page in which she told how she personally had forced city officials to tear down a bad... More >>

• At Downtown Library, the City Council Is Learning How to Build a More Civilized Dallas

  published Jan 21, 2009

  From the big seminar at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library today: City council is hearing experts from Canada and Virginia tell them how to do civilized development. The big question, of course: Why ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Wait, Bush Supporters Want To "Do Sex Acts On" Code Pink Protestersr Is Borat Therer

  published Jan 20, 2009

  Fifteen people, count 'em, at Code Pink's "No War Criminals in my Neighborhood!" protest so far on the bridge at Mockingbird Lane and N. Central Expressway. All very orderly except for the occasional... More >>

• Shoes For George

  published Jan 20, 2009

  Last week Unfair Park told our dear Friends about an Oak Cliff gallery, Decorazon, soliciting international contributions to a show to be called "Farewell Shoes for Mr. Bush," which is dedicated to ou... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  In Trammell Crow We Trusted

  published Jan 15, 2009

  This morning I read with sadness of the death of Trammell Crow, a man for whom I have always had great admiration. I would like to pass along this modest anecdote.In the early 1990s when I was between... More >>

• Decorazon Gallery Show a Shoe-In For Most Intriguing George W. Bush Welcome-Home

  published Jan 14, 2009

  Decorazon Gallery in Bishop Arts has issued an international invitation to artists to submit works for an exhibition in February to be called "Farewell Shoes for Mr. Bush." According to the invitatio... More >>

• For Whom the Toll Bells

  published January 15, 2009

  Certain things you can do that might turn out very badly for you. Borrowing money from the Mafia, for example. Posing naked for a photographer... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  The New York Times Finds Its DSpot

  published Jan 12, 2009

  Yesterday's New York Times travel section served up its "44 Places to go in 2009," and guess what! Dallas was No. 17. And guess what! Absolutely no mention of the late 20th century TV series Dallas. I... More >>

• George W. Bush, Texas' Prodigal Son, Returns

  published January 8, 2009

  OK, just tell me this. How do we greet him? Say I'm in the plumbing aisle at Home Depot bent forward at the waist searching for a beeswax... More >>

• Note to News Editorial Board: It's Not a "Conspiracy" When It's the "Truth"

  published Jan 07, 2009

  The Dallas Morning News editorial page this morning takes another swipe at The Allen Group, the warehousing and logistics company trying to turn Dallas into a continental shipping hub. As usual, today... More >>

• Prediction for 2009: Trinity Toll Road Finally Crashes and Burns for Good

  published January 1, 2009

  This is the time of year when most people who do what I do for a living write about what they think will happen in the year ahead. In other... More >>