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

  "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"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published April 23, 2009

  "Off Course"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published October 15, 2009

  "Guilty"

• 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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2010 Stories by Jim Schutze

• Before Labor Day, a Sign of the Times

  published Sep 03, 2010

  A fellow citizen sent me this picture today after visiting the city of Dallas Department of Building Inspection at 320 East Jefferson Avenue in Oak Cliff. She reported that the sign had exactly the op... More >>

• Just Remember, There's More to Eddie Bernice Johnson Than the Scholarship Scandal

  published Sep 01, 2010

  This item is a dilation of a comment I posted to yesterday's item about 30th District Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson and the scandal about scholarships and nepotism. It struck me after I posted t... More >>

• We've Banned Their Shopping Carts, Outlawed Panhandling, Provided Homes For The Homeless--And Nothing's Worked. There May Be One Modest Proposal That Solves The Problem.

  published September 2, 2010

  We need to put political correctness aside at least for the moment and have a frank discussion about killing the homeless. Can a case be made... More >>

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  How Do You Get Your Constituents To Hate Your Tell Them Their Kids Aren't Very Smart.

  published Aug 31, 2010

  Lot of interesting murmurs going around Southern Dallas the last few days concerning Christy Hoppe and Todd J. Gillman's stories in the The Dallas Morning News about Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnso... More >>

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  Further Proof, As Though It Were Needed, That the Cliff Manor Issue Is Still Roiling Along

  published Aug 26, 2010

  Apparently my column in this week's print edition has sparked some controversy (I just hate that, shy fellow that I am), especially a quote from developer David Spence to the effect that he thinks a r... More >>

• Stirred up by political opportunism, a progressive Oak Cliff neighborhood tries to keep out the homeless.

  published August 26, 2010

  Homelessness is a horrible issue—painful, endlessly complex, almost impossible to contain in any useful summary way. The worst of it is... More >>

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  The More Things Change: Yesterday's Council Walkout Brings Back Fond (r) Memories

  published Aug 24, 2010

  Fine print alert! When Mayor Tom Leppert tells you that yesterday's agenda item vote on the city tax rate didn't mean anything, he's got his hand deep in your pocket. It may be fine print, but ask Lep... More >>

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  Holy National Bible Museum, Batman! What Does Hobby Lobby's Split With Rare Books Dealer Mean For Proposed Dallas Siter

  published Aug 23, 2010

  Big sturm und drang going on in New York and Europe amongst book dealers dealing with the Green family in Oklahoma City regarding the collection I wrote about in March that was supposed to become a... More >>

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  Toll Tagged: NTTA Chair Wageman Still Waging War on Opening Up Bidding Process

  published Aug 18, 2010

  The North Texas Tollway Authority board of directors is meeting as you read to take yet another whack at its "legacy contractors" problem. Item No. 11 on this morning's agenda, dealing with "future pr... More >>

• Schutze and "The Dirt Doctor" Take Issue With Times Story About an Organic Golf Course

  published Aug 17, 2010

  The New York Times today has a story about an organic golf course on Martha's Vineyard of which the newspaper says: "Opened eight years ago, the club is thought to be the only completely organic golf ... More >>

• It'll Never Fly Wilbur, Or How Leppert's Airport Money Grab Was Shot Down.

  published August 5, 2010

  This is a story about Tom Leppert, our mayor and a $27-million-dollar stickup he tried to pull out at the airport last week, but it's also... More >>

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  The Horror, The Horror Behind the Latest Trinity River Piece in Dallas's Only Daily

  published Jul 30, 2010

  Trinity River Project stories are The Dallas Morning News on mescaline. The city's only daily does so well with other coverage. But then they drop one of those Trinity River tabs, and the walls go to ... More >>

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  Easy, Rider: Eddie Bernice Johnson Rewrites History In Interview About Trinity Exemptions

  published Jul 29, 2010

  We still have the South Dallas News in this town, only now they call it the DallasSouthNews. That's the name of the online publication Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson went to recently in order to... More >>

• Clearly, Dallas, You Want to Ride Your Bike. And You Want to Ride It Where You Like.

  published Jul 26, 2010

  The drums are sounding in the night. Lot of action here last week on the biko front, indicating pent-up interest and a growing constituency. One commenter claimed that only 8 percent of Portland resid... More >>

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  So, You Want to Be an Urban Chicken Farmerr Read This First.

  published Jul 23, 2010

  It's weird. Today I have no appetite at all, and I am seriously considering never eating again, but I have been thinking about nothing but food all day and how we don't think enough about where our fo... More >>

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  Bike Friendlyr Depends If Yer Talking "Tits Tuesday" and East Dallas vs. North Oak Cliff.

  published Jul 22, 2010

  A new phrase enters my impoverished lexicon: "North Oak Cliff snobbery." I had called an East Dallas biko leader to ask about something, and he used that phrase in reference to North Oak Cliff bikos. ... More >>

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  Coppell Murder-Suicide: Watching the Tough-on-Crime Go Soft on One of Their Own

  published Jul 21, 2010

  Tell you what. I will agree to leave the Coppell mayor murder-suicide story alone and stop stirring the pot just as soon as everybody else does. But today I have yet another pot-stirring by somebody e... More >>

• Despite draconian budget cuts, DART continues to put on a happy face.

  published July 22, 2010

  Whenever I come across news accounts of sudden shocking budget catastrophes at DART, our regional transit agency, I think back to the sudden... More >>

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  Reactions to Horrors Involving Coppell Mayor, Dallas Chief Tell a Tale of Two Tragedies

  published Jul 16, 2010

  That's it. I have waited three days. Time to speak up. Where are all of the outrage junkies who couldn't wait to pour salt in the wounds of bereaved Dallas Police Chief David Brown over the death of h... More >>

• Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson: The Latest In A Long Line Of Pols To Dance To The Mayor's Tune For The Trinity River Project.

  published July 15, 2010

  I think I just saw it. Caught a glimpse anyway. The Trinity River Project knuckle-under. I could be wrong. But I do consider myself a... More >>

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  Farmers Markets: Class Divisions
  Among the Heirloom Tomatoes

  published Jul 12, 2010

  Dropped by the Green Spot neighborhood farmers market Saturday morning on the parking lot at the Green Spot gas station and store on North Buckner Boulevard at Northcliff Drive on the east side of Whi... More >>

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  How Affordable Is Downtown Dallas Housingr We Send Our Intern to Find Out.

  published Jul 08, 2010

  Note from Jim: In the last week of April I asked the city to tell me how many guaranteed low-income housing units are available in downtown Dallas. There should be lots of them by now -a a couple tho... More >>

• Can David Brown Survive As The Dallas Chief of Police Despite Being The Father Of A Cop Killer?

  published July 8, 2010

  Everybody is on such pins and needles, walking on eggshells at City Hall about the police chief thing. You know they've gone over to the weird... More >>

• A Hearing on Whether Dallas Discriminates When It Comes to Downtown Housing

  published Jul 06, 2010

  On Thursday we will get an interesting first official bite of the apple in complaints that the city of Dallas flouts federal law and practices racial discrimination in its downtown housing policies. T... More >>

• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison Took A Meat-axe To Federal Law To Get The Mayor His Toll Road. But Did She Even Think About The Consequences?

  published July 1, 2010

  We earn disasters like the Gulf oil spill. We bring them on ourselves by breaking the rules every time the rules get in our... More >>