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

• Another Crushing Revelation About Cain

  published Nov 30, 2011

  I am in contact with a woman whose identity I have agreed not to divulge, a middle-aged affluent Republican homemaker in the snooty Park Cities portion of Dallas, who says that she has not had an affa... More >>

• Gassy Knoll: Dark Forces Silencing JFK Conspiracy Folk

  published December 1, 2011

  The 50th anniversary of the murder of President John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza is still two years off, but somebody is already trying to shut... More >>

• You Can Legislate Morality. Ask Anyone Who's Tried to Avoid Picking Up After Their Dog.

  published Nov 29, 2011

  I have been thinking a lot lately about dog shit. It seems to be the answer to one of my more persistent inner puzzles. Dog shit is a surprisingly deep topic. Dallas enacted a so-called pooper-scooper... More >>

• Ice Cometh, Man: No, You Are Not an Excellent Driver

  published Nov 28, 2011

  Oh, no. The ice-driving season is about to come back to Dallas for its annual reign of terror. We're all going to die. When I moved to Texas from Michigan about 100 years ago, the common wisdom was t... More >>

• Whistle-Blowers Claim City Misused Housing Money

  published November 24, 2011

  Riddle: What does the city of Dallas have in common with Westchester County, New York? This is a hard one. They're a county. We're a... More >>

• There's a Wolf at Rick Perry's Door

  published Nov 22, 2011

  Wolf Blitzer of CNN takes on the Republican candidates tonight for the second foreign policy debate. This is the do-or-die moment for our homeboy: Either Rick Perry repairs his fortunes and escapes th... More >>

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  Pinpointing the Shadowy Figures Behind the JFK Conspiracy ... the Other Conspiracy, That Is

  published Nov 21, 2011

  Excuse me. Pardon me. Sorry to bother you. Got a secondr Hey, I'm not asking for money. I just need a favor. Do you know this guy, Frank Librior Would you be able to get in touch with him for mer He'... More >>

• The Upside of Rick Perry's Embarrassing Gaffes: Like, Everyone Wants Him to "Adios, Mofo"

  published Nov 18, 2011

  Star-Telegram Washington bureau reporter Maria Recio has a story today asking various Texas politicos how much Governor Rick Perry has embarrassed the Lone Star State. The answers don't vary a lot. I... More >>

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  Deep Into the Corps: Agency's Own Leaky Docs Express Doubts About City's Levee Fixes

  published Nov 17, 2011

  On November 10 I wrote a column for the paper about documents leaked to me from within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers indicating that the corps has no faith in repairs to the Trinity River levees be... More >>

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  Federal Judge Unseals Suit That Asks: Did Dallas Screw HUD Out of Hundreds of Millionsr

  published Nov 16, 2011

  On June 10, 2010, I wrote a column for the newspaper about an official complaint brought to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by two Dallas developers alleging a decades-old p... More >>

• As Occupy Protesters' Camps Are Broken, Pause to Consider What They've Accomplished

  published Nov 16, 2011

  Wait. The "occupy" part of Occupy may be over, but that's not the story. The story is what the movement has accomplished already. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has evicted Occupy from Zuccotti Par... More >>

• City Council Rolls a Gutter Ball on Greenville

  published November 17, 2011

  Last week the city council shot down a six-lane bowling alley on Lower Greenville Avenue next to Good Records, denying zoning for a $1.5... More >>

• What Is It About the Penn State Victims That Makes Child Rape Less Urgentr

  published Nov 15, 2011

  I wasn't going to write about Penn State, because I'm some guy in Dallas and who cares what I thinkr But Dallas Morning News columnist Jacquielynn Floyd has written about it in today's paper, so in my... More >>

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  Dear Corps of Engineers: Save the Fancy Talk and Just Tell Us If We Should Build an Ark

  published Nov 14, 2011

  All right, class, today our lesson is: "Logical Wormholes and Semantic Corkscrews: Translating the Language of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Into More or Less Plain English, or, You Know, Spanish. ... More >>

• Before We Fight the Power, First Let's Take on the Anti-Government Idiots

  published Nov 11, 2011

  I have a column in the paper this week about the Trinity River levees, and I had a please-respect-my-lawn thing here yesterday about plastic bottles and White Rock Creek. Even I didn't get the connect... More >>

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  Have a Coke and a Frown: Another Win for Libertarian Robber Barons Eating the Planet

  published Nov 10, 2011

  Here is where this libertarian bullshit -- the propaganda foisted on us by Koch-brothers, Harold-Simmons-style polluter robber barons -- just makes suckers, fools and chumps out of us if we believe it... More >>

• The Time Has Come for Occupy Dallas to Get Organized ... and Maybe Some Plumbing

  published Nov 09, 2011

  OK. Uncle. I give. And it wasn't the public urination. I do that all the time. Three things made me decide it's probably time for Occupy Dallas to de-occupy. First: allegations that a minor was sexua... More >>

• Drowning in Lies About the Levees

  published November 10, 2011

  I can tell you this much for sure: You and I do not know the truth about the mortal danger to downtown Dallas posed by potential flooding on... More >>

• Time for Occupy Dallas to Push Back

  published November 10, 2011

  Time to push back: No way should anybody let this drop. Last week's Occupy Dallas arrests should be taken as a direct challenge, not a... More >>

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  Occupy Dallas's Bogus Arrests: We Got to Get Up and Organize

  published Nov 08, 2011

  No way is this over. No way should anybody let this drop. The Occupy Dallas arrests last Saturday should be taken as a direct challenge, not a lesson or defeat. The Dallas Police Department is alread... More >>

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  "Improper Use of a Sidewalk"r WTF, DPDr

  published Nov 07, 2011

  Hey, Tea Party people and libertarians. Does it bother you at all that the Dallas police Saturday arrested seven people for "improper use of a sidewalkr" Does it occur to you that if bullshit charges ... More >>

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  Firing City Manager Mary Suhm Won't Fix What's Broken at Dallas City Hall

  published Nov 03, 2011

  In my column in this week's paper, I talk about that "flow control" deal, which has to do with how much trash gets trucked into southern Dallas. As usual, some of the responses I'm getting are from pe... More >>

• Chambers of Secrets: Lunacy and Paranoia Reach Fever Pitch at Dallas County. Again.

  published Nov 02, 2011

  We're all innocent until proven guilty. The police can investigate hell out of somebody, and that person may turn out to be pure as the driven snow. But there's another reality in the world having to ... More >>

• The Continuing Leppertness of Mayor Mike Rawlings

  published November 3, 2011

  For the last couple weeks I have been getting beaten about the ears by people working at City Hall with our new mayor, Mike Rawlings, who are... More >>

• Occupy Wall Street Plus Halloween: My Cunning Plan for a Little Political Compassion

  published Nov 01, 2011

  Great trick-or-treaters last night on my street. Some years we just get kids from the block. They're great. But last night we got spillover from the Halloween gala on Swiss Avenue a block away. When t... More >>