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

• Tom Leppert Gets Virtuous.

  published March 3, 2011

  Finding fiscal Jesus: Saturday's Dallas Morning News story reporting that Tom Leppert now opposes federal earmark money for the... More >>

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  Tom Leppert Rediscovers His Virginity

  published Mar 01, 2011

  The Gromer Jeffers story in The Dallas Morning News Saturday reporting that Tom Leppert now opposes federal earmark money for the Trinity River project put me in mind of an old newspaper friend. He h... More >>

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  Will Angela Hunt's Endorsement Decide Who's the Next Mayor of Dallasr

  published Feb 28, 2011

  The shoe hanging over the Dallas mayoral election right now is Angela Hunt's endorsement. Depending on which way she goes, Hunt will either give David Kunkle a serious shot at winning or hand Michael ... More >>

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  Tom Leppert for Senate. Let's Talk About That.

  published Feb 25, 2011

  Dear Opposition Researchers working for U.S. Senate campaigns other than that of former-after-midnight Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert: Please contact me about the following things Leppert is going to say a... More >>

• Indiana's Gov Won't Run for Presidentr Too Bad. He Could've Saved Dallas From Dallas.

  published Feb 25, 2011

  New York Times columnist David Brooks, who usually writes from a perspective anyone outside of Texas would consider conservative, has a fascinating column today about Indiana Gov. Mitchell Daniels and... More >>

• Thank You, Tom Leppert. We Really Mean It.

  published Feb 24, 2011

  Oh, my gosh, Tom Leppert has made Dwaine Caraway the new mayor -- thank you so much for that, Tom -- and I just realized I never finished the fictional saga I was writing for you, my cherished readers... More >>

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  Is Fort Worth's Star-Telegram Now a Newspaper Without a Homer

  published Feb 23, 2011

  Just got off the phone with Jim Witt, executive editor of the Star-Telegram, who pointedly did not deny this morning's hot rumor -- that the Fort Worth newspaper's building, which has been on the mark... More >>

• Democrats! Are you going to let John Wiley Price run your party? Really?

  published February 24, 2011

  Dear Dallas County Democratic Party: This is a letter from me to you. Don't read it in front of the kids. You are newly in the... More >>

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  What's the Matter, Protestersr You Aren't Afraid of John Wiley Price, Are Your

  published Feb 23, 2011

  Oh, man. You guys call that a protestr You went down there yesterday to tell the Dallas County Commissioners Court what you think of them, and they slapped the spit out of your mouths. Told you to sit... More >>

• Dallas Isn't Growing Much, But At Least the Dead Aren't Fleeing. Not Yet, Anyway.

  published Feb 22, 2011

  Yet another slavishly uncritical fan of Get Off My lawn (I get so bored with their love) -- this one with the on-line moniker of Enrique de la Fuente (I assume he is not really the Spanish volleyball ... More >>

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  Surprise! City's Plans for Low-Income Housing Overlooks North Dallas. Again.

  published Feb 21, 2011

  Tuesday the city council's housing committee will hear about 13 low-income housing projects being considered by city and state officials. As usual, the dot pattern of the proposed developments looks... More >>

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  If You Go Against County Commissioner John Wiley Price, May the Force Be With You

  published Feb 18, 2011

  Hey, Bruce Sherbet fans, I know you mean well, but you're never going to get anywhere with that stuff about traipsing downtown to the commissioners court meeting and making your little mini-speeches d... More >>

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  Mayoral Circus 2011: Not the Greatest Show on Earth, but Pretty Fun Anyway

  published Feb 17, 2011

  I gotta say: The coming mayoral election season already smells like a holiday for mediatoids. Things are rockin' and rollin' early. Looks to me like the money just tilted way away from North Dallas c... More >>

• Dallas City Hall gets whopped upside the head for its low-income housing policy.

  published February 17, 2011

  Tell me first. To be a cool place to live, what does downtown Dallas need? Action. Tons and tons of people, not all super-rich, not all... More >>

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  John Wiley Pricer Problemr What Problemr Nothing to See Here, Folks.

  published Feb 16, 2011

  I refuse to jump up and down and scream about John Wiley Price. There's this story floating around the media that they had to shut down yesterday's meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court bec... More >>

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  The True-Life Tales of Arthur & Archie

  published Feb 14, 2011

  This is Day Four of the "How Totally Useless Is the Dallas City Council" watch, and you know what my problem is alreadyr I'm bored. This is all about the serial faux pas problem with Dallas Mayor Pro... More >>

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  Circling the Dwaine, Countdown to Cara-watch, Day One, So It Begins, And ... Go

  published Feb 11, 2011

  Time to start a watch. I hereby declare this the beginning of the "How Totally Useless Are the Dallas City Council and Mayorr" watch. Day One. I wrote here yesterday about the huge dilemma City Hall... More >>

• What Makes Schutze Happyr Easy: The Promise of Affordable Housing in Downtown Dallas.

  published Feb 10, 2011

  Just came from that joint meeting of the Downtown Connection Tax Increment Financing District board and Downtown Dallas Development Authority (please don't ask me what any of that means), and I am hap... More >>

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  What the Council Has Done It Can Undo By Taking Away Caraway's "Temporary" Title

  published Feb 10, 2011

  You know what is one of the most common questions I get from people about Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Carawayr They always ask, "What the hell is a mayor pro temr" Let's talk about that. Pro tem is a... More >>

• Is David Kunkle's candidacy for mayor a sign that Dallas is headed in the right direction or that Schutze is off his meds?

  published February 10, 2011

  You know how people always rearrange themselves a little bit on an elevator every time someone gets on or off? Think of political Dallas as one... More >>

• The Super Bowl went badly for Dallas. Now why was that again?

  published February 10, 2011

  Super Bowled Over: The day after the Super Bowl, half the coverage in The New York Times was about the wibble-wobble section in... More >>

• Puttin' a DART in Tim Rogers' Comeback

  published Feb 09, 2011

  Three weeks ago I did a smack-down on Tim Rogers, the editor of D, after he was the subject of a bad front-page story in The Dallas Morning News. The story was about phone calls Rogers made to the med... More >>

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  Sure, Caraway Gets Carried Away. And You Wanna Get Angry. But Then Comes the Pity.

  published Feb 08, 2011

  Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway was on The Ticket's Dunham & Miller show about an hour ago talking about why he gave the key to the city to convicted dog torturer Michael Vick. It was so typic... More >>

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  Nothing Rapid About DART in Ice and Snow

  published Feb 07, 2011

  Check me on this. Dallas Area Rapid Transit, the outfit that runs the trains, didn't know how to keep their trains running in an ice storm. The same kind of trains operate in winter weather cities all... More >>

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  Election Coup: Following Bruce Sherbet's Adios, Only the Man from Plains Can Save Us Now

  published Feb 04, 2011

  I'm serious. I want Jimmy Carter to come monitor our elections. We need his help. So, if you were around here eight years ago, when Dallas was getting national attention for vote fraud, you might be ... More >>