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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2011 Stories by Jim Schutze

• They're From the Business Community and Here to Help You. Yeah, Right.

  published Mar 25, 2011

  The Reverend Gerald Britt Jr. of Central Dallas Ministries (now called "CitySquare" for some unfathomable reason) had an op-ed in The Dallas Morning News yesterday that made my heart ache. Britt, a g... More >>

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  The Mike Rawlings Experience: It Takes a Business Guy to Run a Government Right

  published Mar 24, 2011

  I'm just curious. You tell me. Is public service automatically a bad thingr I'm serious. Is any and every kind of experience in government automatically a black mark on your resumer At Tuesday night'... More >>

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  What the Caraway Police Records Reveal: A Fight Over Aprons Led to "Dangerous" Situation Between Husband and Wife

  published Mar 23, 2011

  The same police recording that Mayor Dwaine Caraway fought bitterly to suppress actually makes him sound like a concerned husband -- calm, cool and collected -- trying to protect the good name of his ... More >>

• Maybe City Council Should Have Asked Some Questions Before Taking Drillers' Money.

  published March 24, 2011

  The city of Dallas website has a "frequently asked questions" thing about gas well drilling. It reminds me a lot of TEPCO, the company whose... More >>

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  Mayor Caraway Loses Legal Battle to Bury Police Recordings Made at His Home In January

  published Mar 22, 2011

  Arthur and Archie did it. At 8 p.m., after a marathon hearing, Judge Teresa Guerra Snelson shot down Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway's request for an injunction barring the release of an audio recording ... More >>

• Welcome to Fun City U.S.A.

  published Mar 22, 2011

  We had a nice little chat here yesterday, didn't we, about South by Southwest in Austin and all the attention Austin got and all the attention Dallas didn'tr I thought it sparked some really interesti... More >>

• As DART Debuts Its "New" Police HQ, the Trial Over the Building Inches Closer to the Station

  published Mar 21, 2011

  Dallas Area Rapid Transit sends word today: The old Monroe Shops building, near the Blue Line's Illinois Station on Corinth Road, was officially rebirthed today as the DART police department's HQ afte... More >>

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  Dallas, a Polka City in a Rock and Roll World

  published Mar 21, 2011

  A couple weeks ago in my guise as Jim Schutze, really cool hipster (instead of crazy old man with gun), I wrote a post for DC9 At Night about Michael Seman, a research associate and doctoral candidate... More >>

• Oh, Lordy: First Baptist's Jeffress Preaching About Quakesr I Think I'll Head Out of Town.

  published Mar 18, 2011

  I'm really worried about what the Reverend Robert Jeffress is going to say at Dallas First Baptist Church Sunday about the quake in Japan. I live within a three-mile radius of First Baptist, and I'm a... More >>

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  Failure Is an Option We Should Consider

  published Mar 17, 2011

  Those images of the out-of-control nuclear plants in Japan are hard-wired to our own situation in Dallas. Their tragedy is our challenge. The question is whether we see the wire in time. City council... More >>

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  Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Homelessr

  published Mar 16, 2011

  OK, let me ask you about something else, while we're on the subject. And first of all, I am not going to say anything negative or critical about rich people, because I don't want to offend anybody's r... More >>

• The public school finance crisis is waking up moderates from their Tea Party-induced slumber.

  published March 17, 2011

  In the media business, we get paid to keep up with all of this government political stuff. Other people have lives. But I am starting to see... More >>

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  The Tunnels Didn't Kill Downtown. The Lack of People Downtown Killed Downtown.

  published Mar 15, 2011

  Here's another thing. Have you read all this crap about how the city is going to plug up the tunnel system downtown because some waffle-brow bow-tie city planner told them that's why nobody's on the s... More >>

• Just Remember, Mayor Dwaine: Confession is Good for the Soul, Better for the Memory

  published Mar 14, 2011

  I covered part of last week's school board meeting on the budget crisis. I was way back in back of the room gossiping with other reporters, which is really the only thing I like about news events any ... More >>

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  Rick Perry's Compassion and Honesty Deficits

  published Mar 11, 2011

  Talk about a disconnect. On Wednesday night I see Governor Rick Perry on television, with that little cowboy sneer he gets, saying, "The lieutenant governor, the speaker and their colleagues are not ... More >>

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  Schutze Says: If There's One Film About the Corps of Engineers You See All Week ...

  published Mar 11, 2011

  Wednesday night I scared my wife by shouting during a basketball game, which I rarely do, because I don't watch basketball. I said: "Hey! I know that guy!" She watches basketball. She fulfills the r... More >>

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  Fox-y News' Own Numbers Show the Talibaptists Haven't Won Yet

  published Mar 10, 2011

  Today the Dallas school board meets to hear the possible "good news" from the superintendent -- that the district may only have to fire a quarter of its teachers instead of a third, depending on how b... More >>

• Documentary About New Orleans' Killer Floods Draws Uneasy Parallels to Dallas.

  published March 10, 2011

  It makes sense that a 212-year-old agency with a $50 billion annual budget would know how to talk. One of many sharp insights in the new... More >>

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  Mayor Dwaine Caraway's Records and Tapes Are Privater Not By a Long, Smelly Shot.

  published Mar 09, 2011

  Yesterday a commenter wrote in to Unfair Park in reference to an item about Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway and the legal action he has brought against his own city to prevent the release of an embarrassi... More >>

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  The Longer Mayor Dwaine Delays the Inevitable, The More Stuff We Get to Keep Making Up

  published Mar 08, 2011

  Two things. The first is serious business. The second, not so much. As you know by now, a Dallas judge today granted lawyers for Mayor Dwaine Caraway their request for a temporary restraining order f... More >>

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  Let's Get This Real Tea Party Started

  published Mar 07, 2011

  Guess what. Maybe it has started. The great gray horse may be rising to her feet at last. Maybe the sane middle class of America isn't dead in its tracks after all. I have a column in this week's pap... More >>

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  Is Hating Teachers the Right Thing to Dor

  published Mar 04, 2011

  The New York Times ran a story yesterday about all the hate the right-wingers are expressing for school teachers. In the opening they quoted placards from Madison, Wisconsin, saying, "You are glorifie... More >>

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  Before the Sonogram Law is Born: Abortion, the Nanny State and Right-Wing Hypocrisy

  published Mar 03, 2011

  Here's what I don't get. The right-wingers are always sneering about the "nanny state" -- government trampling their sacred rights as individuals by telling them what kind of light bulb they can screw... More >>

• Growing Our Way Into the Third World

  published Mar 02, 2011

  Rick Perry keeps telling me that I shouldn't worry about dumping all the kids out of school or putting Grandma out of the nursing home. Texas has the nation's fastest-growing economy, he says, so don'... More >>

• The public school funding crisis is part of a bigger plan to suck all sense of community out of the country

  published March 3, 2011

  So we can hear the wolves howling in the forest now. They begin to circle. The deliberate devastation by Rick Perry Republicans of... More >>