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

• All These Years Later, Swiss Avenue Still Haunted by Ghosts of Halloweens Past

  published Nov 01, 2010

  So leave it to me. Here it is Sunday night. I'm sitting on the porch handing out Halloween candy and trying to be nice. But I am gnashing my teeth. On Saturday The Dallas Morning News published a stor... More >>

• Is Tea Party Darling and Republican Congressional Candidate Stephen Broden Still Electable After Endorsing Violence As a Means of Changing the Government?

  published October 28, 2010

  The contest for the 30th Congressional District of Texas has taken Dallas back to its cuckoo-town roots in a way nobody here has seen since... More >>

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  Stephen Broden Gives Good Sound Bite. But There's More to the Man Than Meets the Ear.

  published Oct 27, 2010

  In an interview today with Bill Zeeble of KERA-FM (90.1), Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden trots out his belief that Roe v. Wade -- the Supreme Court decision affirming a woman's righ... More >>

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  Broden's Camp: He's Within Striking Distance of EBJ. At Least, He Was Before the "Revolution."

  published Oct 26, 2010

  Small wonder the Stephen Broden camp is gnashing its teeth over the Brad Watson violent-overthrow interview. Just before Channel 8 ran the interview in which congressional candidate Broden said violen... More >>

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  The News Yanks Its Endorsement of Broden. Didn't See That Coming. Oh, Wait. Yes, We Did.

  published Oct 23, 2010

  The Dallas Morning News today withdrew its endorsement of Stephen Broden in the Texas 30th District congressional race, after Eddie Bernice Johnson's Republican challenger told WFAA-Channel 8 reporter... More >>

• Dallas City Fathers And The Army Corps Of Engineers Don't Speak The Same Language When It Comes To the Levees.

  published October 21, 2010

  So I'm at City Hall watching the city council last week, and out of the blue—I don't know where it comes from, just craziness—I... More >>

• Drip By Last Drop, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Goes With the Flow

  published Oct 15, 2010

  In April 2009, I wrote about the court battle between the city of Dallas and people in East Texas over a proposed dam and reservoir on the Neches River. The East Texas people won that one, successfull... More >>

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  Whaddya Know, the City Council Decides Legal Businesses Along Trinity Are Still Legal After All

  published Oct 13, 2010

  Private property still legal in Dallas! Or should I say, legal again. The Dallas City Council just voted unanimously to approve a plan to keep several businesses on Rock Island Street, right behind th... More >>

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  A New Dance Step at City Hall: Mayor Tom, Dave Neumann Are Doing the "Levee Slide"

  published Oct 11, 2010

  The Dallas Morning News's City Hall blog today carries two items in which Dallas city council member Dave Neumann and our mayor, Tom Leppert, alternately bitch about and then sort of pooh-pooh the pro... More >>

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  Today's Edition of The News Is Caught Between a Rock Island Street and a Hard Place

  published Oct 08, 2010

  There's a great story by Steve Thompson on Page One of The Dallas Morning News today about old industrial businesses on Rock Island Street, a quaint one-block lane tucked between the Trinity River lev... More >>

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  The News Has Endorsed Stephen Broden. But What Does the Paper Really Know About Himr

  published Oct 01, 2010

  This afternoon, The Dallas Morning News endorsed Stephen Broden, the Republican vying for Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson's seat in the U.S. Congress. Fascinating -- in no small part because Johnson ha... More >>

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  Because the Only Thing That Would Have Made Animal House Better Would Have Been Guns

  published Sep 30, 2010

  Trey Garrison, a writer I admire and a contributing editor at D, has an op-ed piece in The Dallas Morning News today suggesting that Tuesday's suicide at the University of Texas at Austin makes the ca... More >>

• City Hall's Debate Over the Tax Hike Was About More Than Curtailing City Services.

  published September 30, 2010

  So, just for grins, let's do this. Let's take off our war helmets, put down our skull flails for maybe 10 minutes on this whole Dallas property... More >>

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  Ready, Quonset, Go! In Search of Ideas for the Real West Dallas of the Future.

  published Sep 24, 2010

  Robert, don't post this item, because I know you won't, because I know you hate me, but this is something I posted as a comment on an earlier item, and then I changed my mind, and now I've decided it'... More >>

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  Doing the Math After Today's Tax Rate Vote

  published Sep 22, 2010

  Didn't even get my print-edition column out the door this week before I got a major correction, and this one from a person who would know -- city council member Angela Hunt. She saw it online before t... More >>

• If You Don't Want to Raise Taxes, Better Look At The Kind of City You Do Want.

  published September 23, 2010

  Wow. When did the whole topic of taxes turn into wild scary voodoo? Please. Taxes are numbers. Numbers are not snakes. A majority of... More >>

• Is It Finally Curtains for the Trinity River Project?

  published September 23, 2010

  Man behind the curtain: So, Mayor Tom Leppert complained in last week's "state of the city" address that unnamed "federal partners"... More >>

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  Why's Leppert So Pissed Off at the Corps of Engineersr Because He Can't Handle the Truth.

  published Sep 21, 2010

  O.K., I've been laughing up my sleeve over the mayor's whining remarks last week, complaining that certain unnamed "federal partners" aren't being very nice to him. Hanging around City hall last week ... More >>

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  Chief Brown's Reaction to Police Beating is the Right Call to Tame Rookie Cops

  published Sep 17, 2010

  This is just an arm-chair amateur speaking, but Dallas Police Chief David Brown's response to the motorcycle beat-down scandal seems right-on to me. Brown is going to require his more veteran coppers ... More >>

• Old Guard Board Members Are At It Again, Trying To Destroy the Magnets. But A New Coalition Of Trustees Seems Determined To Stop Them.

  published September 16, 2010

  If I tell you something weird is going on at Dallas public school headquarters, that's not exactly a news bulletin, is it? But what if I'm... More >>

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  Not a Lot of Folks Showed for "Last-Minute Show of Support" for Eddie Bernice Johnson

  published Sep 13, 2010

  I guess grassroots just aren't what they used to be. Today an announced "grassroots" outpouring of support for embattled 30th District Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson amounted to a dozen preachers... More >>

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  At the DISD Board Meeting, Waiting to Find Out More About Those "Students of Promise"

  published Sep 09, 2010

  I'm here at the Dallas Independent School District board of trustees briefing, awaiting a presentation by Chief Administrative Officer Donna Micheaux on those proposed new admissions policies for the ... More >>

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  South of Cadillac Heights, Where, When It Rains Hard, a River Always Runs Through It

  published Sep 09, 2010

  Ms. Greer called me this morning to tell me she made it through the night. She's a courtly, pretty lady, 88 years old, whose house is at the very end of Rockefeller Boulevard by Moore Park, south of C... More >>

• Think City Hall Should Get A Tax Hike? You Might Think Again After Seeing How Crappy It Treats Its Taxpayers.

  published September 9, 2010

  In the last few weeks everyone has been talking about taking on a tax increase so we can give City Hall more money. I promise you this much:... More >>

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  Eddie Bernice Johnson's Possible Defense: "Well, Every One Else Is Taking Money."

  published Sep 07, 2010

  In the wake of Congressional candidate Stephen Broden's latest bombshell about incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson's scholar-gyp scandal, we have to wonder about the whole Congress. Is Johnson's fiddling ... More >>