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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2011 Stories by Jim Schutze

• A Quick Kick at Rick, While He's Still Around

  published Dec 29, 2011

  I'm afraid Rick Perry will evaporate soon from the presidential coverage, and I won't get to say my little piece about him. So just in case, here it is. Months ago I was asked by the company I work f... More >>

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  Walker Railey: Convicted by Everybody Except a Jury of His Peers

  published Dec 28, 2011

  Former Dallas Morning News star reporter Olive Talley has a piece in the paper today saying Walker Railey killed his wife and got away with it. Not in so many words. Forgive me if you're under 100 yea... More >>

• North Texas Bets Big on Pumping from Lake Texoma

  published December 29, 2011

  At the beginning of the month, I had a column in the paper talking about a study saying the Dallas area is in much better shape than many of... More >>

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  Before We Get (Another) Plan for Downtown's Parks, the Bridge Club Should Get a Clue

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Tale of two cities on today's front pages: Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic at The New York Times, presents a big-canvas panoramic of Rio Park in Madrid, Spain, where they entombed a highway to ... More >>

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  Schutze Finally Reads Crume on Christmas, and His Heart Grows Three Sizes, But Only This Day

  published Dec 23, 2011

  This morning I finally read the late Paul Crume's 1967 newspaper column about angels, reprinted in today's Dallas Morning News, according to their annual custom. When I told my wife I had never read ... More >>

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  In the Sorority Rape Case, Trying to Help Hits a Dead End

  published Dec 22, 2011

  Here's something scary. There's a guy I have bumped into several times who looks like the artist's rendering of the suspect in the sorority rapist case. I mean sort of. It's not like, "Oh, look, it's ... More >>

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  Declaring War on the War on the War on the War on the War on Christmas

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Man. I cannot believe it. Just got back in the house. Catching my breath. Had to wade into the crowd out there on the street. Major neighborhood squall. We've been waiting 20 years for the city to pa... More >>

• Beating Up Babes in Toyland

  published December 22, 2011

  Humbuggered: Buzz is having trouble this year with Toys for Tots. Just call us a Grinch. You see this smarmy hoopla on the TV... More >>

• Bicycle Advocates Win a Game of Chicken

  published December 22, 2011

  City Hall starts off last week giving one of its typical bureaucratic blow-offs to plans for bike lanes throughout the city. At a briefing... More >>

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  Want to Understand Politics, the Economy, Everythingr Follow the Levees.

  published Dec 20, 2011

  Figured it out. I can tell you why the Republicans keep assassinating their own nominees. It all goes back to the Trinity River levees. Whatr You think I can't connect those dotsr Stand back. Right n... More >>

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  Merry Effing Christmas to Rick Perry and the Tea Party -- From the Kids

  published Dec 19, 2011

  I'm having particular trouble this year with Toys for Tots. Put it on me for being a grinch. But, look. I see this big smarmy hoopla on the TV news every night with the weatherman and a bunch of shin... More >>

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  Trinity Levees: Will the Feds' Money Crunch Leave Us Low and Wetr

  published Dec 16, 2011

  Am I in the happy-news businessr Does a bear use air freshener in the woodsr Look, I'm just bringing it to you like it is. As bad as the situation with the Trinity River levees may look locally, you s... More >>

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  To Save the Trees, Start by Saving Poor People

  published Dec 15, 2011

  Maybe we need some context for this week's debate on Wal-Mart Stores Inc. vs. the tree canopy. After a not-very-uplifting debate yesterday including the line, "Trees do not vote," our esteemed city co... More >>

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  Council Faces Huge Bill for IT Glitch. Maybe They Should Just Dial Jesus for Technical Help.

  published Dec 14, 2011

  The Dallas city council today is locked in a dispute today over paying a contractor $8.3 million to help City Manager Mary Suhm straighten out a huge mess with the city's computerized billing system. ... More >>

• The Black Police Association's Disappearing Money

  published December 15, 2011

  Dallas Police Sergeant Preston Gilstrap, recent former president of the Black Police Association of Dallas, has made serious allegations of... More >>

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  Are They Angels or Grinches at Dallas City Hallr Depends Which Project You're Discussing.

  published Dec 13, 2011

  Sometimes I think city staff may be demon-possessed. I'm sorry, I know it's a very weird thing to say. But I can't come up with another explanation. One day they're so bouncy and positive and totally ... More >>

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  Hey, Marathoners, Don't Make East Dallas Sic the Dogs on You. Oh, and Have Positive Day.

  published Dec 12, 2011

  Damn. I almost forgot. Other things intervened. Please don't let this year get behind me without my taking an opportunity to say what I think of the White Rock Marathon, a foot-race carried out in my ... More >>

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  Kathlyn Gilliam, Dallas ISD Pioneer and South Dallas Activist, Has Died at the Age of 81

  published Dec 12, 2011

  Friends and allies of former Dallas School board president Kathlyn Gilliam quietly mourned her death early Sunday afternoon. She had fought a 13-month battle with cancer. Gilliam, 81, was the first bl... More >>

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  Dangers on a Train: Crime Goes Down Everywhere Except on DART

  published Dec 09, 2011

  Wait a minute. The Dallas Morning News today publishes a story in which the top cop in the local transit agency gets away with blaming the economy and too much bling for a sharp increase in robberies ... More >>

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  Matrice Ellis-Kirk's NTTA Appointment Gets Diversity Without Greasing the Price Machine

  published Dec 08, 2011

  So, Lakewood is in southern Dallas now. Either that, or all black Dallasites are residents of southern Dallas, no matter where they live. Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price tells The Dallas ... More >>

• Sometimes 1 Percent is Enough. If, That Is, You're Willing to Stand Up.

  published Dec 07, 2011

  Hey, one last shout out here for the Occupy Dallas people who camped at City Hall. I know you took a lot of grief from people who didn't understand why you were doing what you were doing, including me... More >>

• Why is Drought-Hit Dallas Selling Water?

  published December 8, 2011

  Here are some things I never ever thought I would hear myself saying. In fact, I'm having a hard time spitting it out. But truth is truth.... More >>

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  What Does City Hall Have to Say About Levee Reportr No. Really. I'm Asking.

  published Dec 06, 2011

  This is Day Two of Trinity River levee stories from me, which I realize is Day Too Many, but ... well, sorry. I'm just sorry about it, but I cannot let this moment pass without making an observation. ... More >>

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  Between the Lines in Corps' Trinity River Enviromental Assessment: Don't Blame Us

  published Dec 05, 2011

  Buried between the lines in a 246-page document released by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today is a significant national story about the future of flood control in American cities. I doubt very ma... More >>

• Wiping the Sheen off Conservative Rich Guys' Morality

  published Dec 02, 2011

  Today, a commenter on a previous blog item of mine about GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain suggested it was mighty mysterious that President Obama doesn't have any sexual peccadilloes in his clos... More >>