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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2010 Stories by Jim Schutze

• Can WikiLeaks info dump of state secrets make for a more just society? Well, that's what Russell Fish thinks.

  published December 30, 2010

  People all over the world are worried about whether Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is a legitimate journalist or the Information Unabomber. If... More >>

• Yahoo! Them Huddled Masses Sure are Good for Texas!

  published December 30, 2010

  Welcome, pardners: More illegals! More illegals over here, please! The Census Bureau released its 2010 numbers last week,... More >>

• The Census Taketh, and the Census Giveth

  published Dec 22, 2010

  More illegals! More illegals over here, please! Ah, you'll have to excuse me. I have been away from my column for weeks with my nose in numbers for an immigration story that appears in this week's pap... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Mass deportation, strict border enforcement, amnesty. What will comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds take action--or if they don't?

  published December 23, 2010

  At every point on the political compass Americans agree something needs to be done about the nation's policy on undocumented immigration. The... More >>

• Schutze has trouble being Christmasy enough for Pastor Robert Jeffress of the First Baptist Church after finding himself on the receiving end of a Christmas scam.

  published December 16, 2010

  All I want for Christmas is to be Christmasy. You've already heard about Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church in... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  You Know Who Hates Texansr Why, the Railroad Commission of Texas, Naturally.

  published Dec 14, 2010

  The Texas Observer has published a story about the Railroad Commission of Texas that I want to call appalling, but I think the Railroad Commission has lost the ability to appall. The story exposes a p... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Seven Council Members Tell Suhm: Find Some Way to Allow Free Public Parking at City Hall

  published Dec 08, 2010

  Seven council members have signed a memo to Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm telling her to figure out some way not to bar the public from parking in the garage underneath Dallas City Hall (well, the fou... More >>

• What In God's Name is First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress So Scared Ofr Everything.

  published Dec 08, 2010

  Regarding the story Wilonsky broke here yesterday -- about Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church, publishing a list of businesses or other entities that fail to celebrate Christmas in an acc... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  No Parking at City Hallr "Security" My Ass.

  published Dec 07, 2010

  At the end of last week Wilonsky posted a City Hall memo announcing that "the general public will no longer be allowed to park in the City Hall garage." I thought about it a lot over the weekend. It's... More >>

• Why, I've Got a Much Better Idea Than This Half-Baked Call for Rolling Back Dallas's Taxes

  published Dec 03, 2010

  You may or may not be familiar with Allen Gwinn -- the blogger-provocateur who keeps watch over the public school system and other matters. He has a new website going called taxrollback.org calling fo... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  You're a Mean One, Mayor Grinch: Leppert Taking Hunt Out of Committee Chair Not Nice

  published Dec 02, 2010

  I have been keeping my mouth shut for months about this deal between Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and city council member Angela Hunt concerning committee assignments and Hunt's ability to care for her ne... More >>

• Up White Rock Creek With a Paddle

  published Dec 01, 2010

  Made a short canoe trip up White Rock Creek from the lake with my son yesterday evening. He's visiting for the holiday. Half the leaves are off the trees, so we're back to the season of the year when ... More >>

• Why I Like Anonymous Comments. Mostly.

  published Nov 30, 2010

  The New York Times op-ed page today has a big essay on anonymous blog comments and what to do about them: "Where anonymity breeds contempt," by Julie Zhuo, a "product design manager" at Facebook. S... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  At City Hall, the Slow Demise of the Citizens Councilr Probably Not. But We Can Dream.

  published Nov 29, 2010

  There's a lot of shape-shifting going on below the media radar at City Hall, a sense that some kind of realignment is in the works. A lot of it has to do with the fraying and maybe dissolution of the ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Stick It In Your Earmark Redux, or: Surprise, News Views Ban as a Bad Thing for Trinity

  published Nov 26, 2010

  O.K., I promise not to go on about it, but there's an interesting little two-step today on Page One of Dallas's Only Daily Newspaper. I just wanted to call it to your attention. It's about congression... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  It Took Forever For City To Craft Hands-Off Garden Law. And That's a Good Thing.

  published Nov 24, 2010

  A hundred years ago, when I was a city desk reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, there was a certain dreaded 4 a.m. phone call I used to get from the late Ernie Makovy, one of the great breaking-news... More >>

• Send us Your Earmark: Could Congress Turn off the Tap on Trinity Money?

  published November 25, 2010

  Lend us your earmark: Buzz has never been supportive of the Tea Party and its goals, which as near as we can figure consist of turning... More >>

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  Kosher Porkr One In a Series of Items About Flushing Money Down the Trinity River.

  published Nov 23, 2010

  Last week Friend of Unfair Park Shaggy predicted that the Tea Party will get over its aversion to congressional earmarks in however long it takes for the Triple R's (Really Really Rich People) to get ... More >>

• What (Pardon, Who) Do the Trinity River Project and Tom DeLay Have in Commonr

  published Nov 22, 2010

  In my narrow and twisted personal universe, everything is about the trinity River Project, even today's closing arguments in Austin in the money laundering trial of former U.S. House Majority Leader T... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  What Two Sentences in The WSJ Suggest About the Future of the Trinity River Project

  published Nov 20, 2010

  Wilonsky sent me an interesting Wall Street Journal article this morning by Jonathan Weisman talking about the shift of power that would be brought about by a Republican-backed ban on congressional ea... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Nothing Wrong With Keeping Public Parks Public. So Long As the Public Uses 'Em.

  published Nov 19, 2010

  Dallas Park Czar Mike Rawlings -- current president of the Park and Recreation Board, former homeless czar (he was not homeless, he was helping them), former Pizza Hut CEO and ad guy -- declares in Th... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  What I Learned About Bullies, And Their Parents, When I Wrote A Book On The Subject

  published Nov 18, 2010

  Friday I'm going to this thing at the home of garden designer Robert Bellamy called "Light a Fire," some kind of dinner deal to make people more aware of the problem of bullying of gay kids and suici... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Stick It In Your Earmark, or: You Don't Have to Look Far To See When Good Money Goes Bad

  published Nov 17, 2010

  Not to be cranky or anything, but it's really irritating to read all this crap about congressional earmarks and realize nobody knows what the hell they're talking about. Stories in both The Dallas Mor... More >>

• D'ough! Putting a Price Tag on the 30th.

  published Nov 03, 2010

  Democratic incumbent Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson raised $548,514 to run for re-election and won with 75.76 percent of the vote, which was not up to her standard snuff. In 2006, the 17-year vet... More >>

• How the City's Board of Adjustment turned the dreams of Josh and Jenn Terry into a nightmare.

  published November 4, 2010

  I want to catch you up on a story I told you about in September, concerning Josh and Jenn Terry, both 29 years old, who were rehabilitating an... More >>