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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2010 Stories by Jim Schutze

• Why Do The Powers That Be In Dallas Want To Regulate A South Dallas Scrap Metal Yard Out Of Existence?

  published April 29, 2010

  Sometimes I am accused of thinking everything at City Hall is a big conspiracy. But that's not true. I am willing to concede that some things... More >>

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  Mayor Pro Tem Caraway Wants to Make Sure Jim Gets His Quote Exactly Right

  published Apr 27, 2010

  Sometimes I feel that life is unfair. I have way too much fun. On occasion I think I should share some of it with others. In that spirit, I offer the following: In tomorrow's paper version of Unfair ... More >>

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  Mayor Pro Tem Caraway Got a Little, Um, Carried Away With Official Invitation

  published Apr 22, 2010

  Dwaine Caraway has come seriously unglued in recent months, behaving less like a Dallas city council member and more and more like Huey Long. My God. I can't believe some of this stuff. More on this i... More >>

• Mayor Tom Leppert Should Just Fess Up: The Trinity Toll Road Is Dead And Done

  published April 22, 2010

  Ireland, South Africa and Sierra Leone have all committed to "truth and reconciliation" as a process for healing wounds of history. Even... More >>

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  Something Stinks Near Cadillac Heights, And It's Not the Sewage Plant

  published Apr 21, 2010

  Couple weeks ago I wrote a column about the sudden anomalous enthusiasm of The Dallas Morning News editorial page for getting rid of scrap yards and a dead animal transfer station on Pontiac Street at... More >>

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  What the Shuck: Steve Blow, Good Job on That Trinity Column. Except ...

  published Apr 19, 2010

  Editing memo to Steve Blow: Thank you for getting around to writing the column I directed you to write on the Trinity River. It was a good effort, in the main. I hate to quibble with you, but I do nee... More >>

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  This Weekend, a Chance to Peep at the Coot. Oh, Wait, Sorry. That's "Coop."

  published Apr 16, 2010

  I'm on tour Sunday. Well, I'm not on tour. My wife is on tour -- part of the first annual "A Peep at the Coops: The Urban Coop Tour." I just work there. Actually, a guy named Victor works for my wife ... More >>

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  So, No Solar-Powered Water Taxis, Thenr But ... But ... But We Were Promised!

  published Apr 15, 2010

  So tomorrow, on some page of The Dallas Morning News (I assume Page One), Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert will concede that the Trinity River Project has hit the wall. Wall, wall, wall. A story posted on Th... More >>

• Schutze Says We Should All Do a Badu and Get Naked at Dealey Plaza--and That Includes Him

  published April 15, 2010

  I know it's only my two-bits worth, but I loved the Erykah Badu video in which she stripped naked on the X-marks-the-spot, where Kennedy got... More >>

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  Now That Army Corps of Engineers Doesn't Want Trinity River Toll Road, It's Time to Shift the Blame: Preservationists!

  published Apr 13, 2010

  The story in today's Dallas Morning News about possible historic designation for the Trinity River levees falls squarely in the Unintentionally Hilarious category. It says the idea of building the Tri... More >>

• Something Stinks About the News' Position on Moving Smelly Businesses Along the Trinity

  published April 8, 2010

  Fine. Call me paranoid. I can take it. But there's a difference between being paranoid and being able to see through crap. Let's start with the... More >>

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  Take One Guess Why Council's Messing With Judicial Nominating Commission

  published Apr 07, 2010

  Interesting item on the Dallas City Council's agenda this morning: "Judicial Nominating Commission." (It's Action Item No. 5, for those playing along at home.) City Attorney Tom Perkins is offering th... More >>

• Mea Culpa, You-a Culpable, And We Want Our Trinity Naysayers Takedown Now!

  published Apr 06, 2010

  I am embarrassed, and I want to offer the Friends of Unfair Park an apology. Last Thursday I proferred an ironclad prediction that The Dallas Morning News would run one of its aw-shucks-yer-pretty-he... More >>

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  Lies, Damned Lies and Project Pegasus: Yet Again, News Reveals It Lied About Trinity Toll Road Without Fessing Up

  published Apr 02, 2010

  Yesterday on The Dallas Morning News transportation and editorial blogs, Rodger Jones, an editorial writer, casually passed on a bit of information -- as if it were a sort of minor tid-bit -- gleaned ... More >>

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  Regarding Those Levees, Let Me Break Out My Tin-Foil Hat And My Crystal Ball

  published Apr 01, 2010

  In the weeks ahead I'm going to be tied up with some stories that will demand a lot of my time, so, I'm sorry, I'm just not going to have time to do my regularly predictable clockwork swat-down reacti... More >>

• Who the Hell is Clay Jenkins, And Why Am I Being Told to Vote for Him for County Judge?

  published April 1, 2010

  Sure. Turnout for the Democratic runoff election for county judge on April 13 will be tiny. Few people will vote, but the outcome will be huge.... More >>

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  Goin' to the (Sistine) Chapel: More About What You May Find in That Bible Museum

  published Mar 31, 2010

  I guess Hobby Lobby Bobby -- the PR guy for Hobby Lobby -- is never going to call me back about the big bible museum planned for Dallas. So I'll just have to go on breaking the story a little bit at a... More >>

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  Maybe News's Story on Cause of Levee Delays Was First Step to Rehabr Nah.

  published Mar 29, 2010

  The headline of Michael Lindenberger's big front-page to-do in the paper version of Sunday's Dallas Morning News was "Grand Plans Delay Levee Fix." It was, in many ways, a remarkable story for The New... More >>

• When It Comes To Community Gardens, City Hall And Its Crazy Procedures Are Like Agent Orange

  published March 25, 2010

  I just want to make a small point about the way Dallas City Hall does business. Not a huge point. City Hall tries to make things go... More >>

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  Peace at Last For the Late, Great Civics and Military Leader, Hugh Robinson

  published Mar 23, 2010

  The body of Major General Hugh Robinson will be released from a three-week limbo at a Dallas funeral home and buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, according to Scott D. Web... More >>

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  So, If You're Lobbying Dallas City Hall, You Need to Report To, Um, Everyoner

  published Mar 23, 2010

  The city finally came up with that list of city officials with whom lobbyists must report contacts under the new lobby reform ordinance that goes into effect a week from now. The lobbyists had been bi... More >>

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  Glory Be: Dallas to House a "National Bible Museum"r Sure Sounds Like It.

  published Mar 22, 2010

  Very strange thing going on right now in New York and Europe about a "National Bible Museum" to be created in Dallas -- strange in that there has been no mention here in the city's only daily newspape... More >>

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  I Don't Know When It Became My Job to Tell You When You're Screwed ...

  published Mar 19, 2010

  I'm getting a a lot of e-mail from people who want to know how to look up their property on the FEMA flood risk maps to see if they are exposed to flooding since the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has d... More >>

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  Premium Content: While We Argue Over a Word, a Risk Still Runs Through the City

  published Mar 18, 2010

  Got a little e-mail debate going with Frank Librio, the spokesman for the city of Dallas, which I thought I should share with the Friends of Unfair Park. Always good to get a second opinion. Maybe peo... More >>

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  City Hall, City Hall, How Does Your Community Garden Growr Oh, It Doesn't.

  published Mar 18, 2010

  Showed up at Room 5ES in Dallas City Hall this morning at 9 a.m. to cover an officially posted hearing of the Dallas Zoning Ordinance Committee on community gardens. Sat there. Alone.After a span of t... More >>