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

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  DISD Turned Over Financials Concerning Oak Cliff Christian, But Questions Remain

  published Jan 29, 2010

  John McCall, the former president of the Old Oak Cliff Conservation League who last week took the Dallas Independent School District to court over the imminent demolition of the Oak Cliff Christian Ch... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Looks Like We Found the Real Reason Behind the City's Decision to Sue Railroad Museum

  published Jan 28, 2010

  [Editor's note: Tonight, Jim spoke with sources familiar with the negotiations between the Museum of the American Railroad and the city. Among those to whom he spoke is Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm. ... More >>

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  Henpecked: Schutze's New Journalism Hero

  published Jan 28, 2010

  Well, as usual, The Dallas Morning News prints stuff, and then it's up to me to come along behind them and do clean-up on the story. What am Ir Their journalistic janitorr Mariana Greene, The News's g... More >>

• Richard Allen Sounds Mighty Cheerful for a Guy in Bankruptcy

  published January 28, 2010

  Funny business: When Buzz spoke with Richard Allen, CEO of The Allen Group, Tuesday, Buzz was reminded why Buzz is not rich. Buzz really... More >>

• The Inland Port Files For Chapter 11, Which Doesn't Surprise Given The Economic Climate And The Political One (aka John Wiley Price)

  published January 28, 2010

  So, that was why Richard Allen stood us all up at the altar a week ago. I think I feel...better. Strangely. It's kind of like: Good news, the... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Richard Allen on Logistics Hub's Chapter 11: "It's a Good Project. It's Just a Timing Issue."

  published Jan 26, 2010

  Over the last year, whenever I have spoken with Richard Allen, CEO of The Allen Group, he has been open at times, guarded at others. But I have to say today, when he and I talked about his entry into ... More >>

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  What's Not Good for Moraler Money Missing from the Dallas PD's Employee Morale Fund.

  published Jan 25, 2010

  For me, a good City Hall audit report is better reading than a John Grisham novel. You just have to know how to read it (upside down, holding it up to the mirror, between the lines). Today's offering ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Wherein Schutze Asks The News: Where's the "Trinity River Toll Road Dead!" Headliner

  published Jan 21, 2010

  Ah, you know, even a blind hog can find the truth buried somewhere in The Dallas Morning News if he knows how to root-hog-or-die. Reminds me of the thing I wrote about two years ago, when The News wai... More >>

• In North Oak Cliff They Know You Can't Fight City Hall, But You Can Bike Around It

  published January 21, 2010

  You heard it here first. Possibly. If you have already heard it somewhere else, please keep that to yourself. I want the credit. North... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Schutze Bawk-Bawks at Houseguest

  published Jan 19, 2010

  Lori Stahl, over on The News's Park Cities Blog, is making light of a serious situation in my home. My wife got talked into bringing a lost chicken into the house this week. You could talk her into re... More >>

• Talkin' Trash About the City's 311 System

  published Jan 19, 2010

  The Schutze household has been working on a mystery all day about how to call the city for bulk trash pickup if the trucks keep skipping your block during pickup week. We found that we could not reach... More >>

• Dallas-Haiti Project Offers Chance to Help

  published Jan 15, 2010

  In order to help Haiti, you don't have to just sling cash out into the great unknown. Several groups in Dallas have long-standing involvement in relief efforts there -- among them Dallas-Haiti Project... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  One Last Thing About "One More Thing"

  published Jan 14, 2010

  Well, we're sort of zeroing in, slowly, on the answer to my question: Who paid for that "One More Thing" promotional video about Dallas shown to the city council yesterdayr You know: scenes from aroun... More >>

• Schutze has seen the future and it is community gardens-and a bunch of angry neighbors frightened of them

  published January 14, 2010

  Last week I attended a community meeting in East Dallas where an angry crowd of middle-class homeowners denounced community gardeners as a... More >>

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  The Trinty River "Poses a High Risk to Recreational Users"r That Can't Be Right.

  published Jan 12, 2010

  Environment Texas, an Austin-based research group, made available today a report on Texas rivers that lists the state's most dangerously polluted waterways, particularly those fouled by chemicals that... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Them's the Breaks, Kid: Dallas Water Utilities' Assistant Director Talks Broken Pipes

  published Jan 11, 2010

  Maybe nobody else cares, but my wife and I got curious over the weekend why the city's water mains break in cold weather, since we were left without water for several hours Saturday night. We live in ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Dallas, Dallas, Quite Contrary, How Does Your Community Garden Growr

  published Jan 08, 2010

  I covered a community meeting last night at Winfrey Point on White Rock Lake to discuss plans for a community garden off Fisher Road in East Dallas, and ... what can I sayr It was pretty much a total ... More >>

• Tonight, Widow of Slain Dallas PD Corporal Norman Smith to Revisit Scene of Crime

  published Jan 06, 2010

  Apparently on the TV news tonight we will see a story I can only describe as the Dallas's First Truly Awkward Moment of 2010. Dallas Police Lieutenant Regina Smith will lead a cortege of a dozen unifo... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Schutze Puts on Leather Football Helmet

  published Jan 05, 2010

  Speaking of Craig James, here goes a big mistake. I'm going to invade Richie's territory and offer an opinion on a sports story. I was actually prohibited from writing about sports once when I was a d... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  From the City Auditor, Our First List of 2010

  published Jan 04, 2010

  Dallas City Auditor Craig D. Kinton just published his department's audit of maintenance of city-owned buildings, which makes for some mildly amusing reading this morning. It's after the jump, but wha... More >>