Email Author Jim Schutze

Awards

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published October 28, 2010

  "Going to Extremes"

• 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"

• 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

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  FEATURED STORY

  What's Wrong with DARTr The Suburbs.

  published Apr 25, 2011

  No, no, no -- not that same old crap again about how we need to get more suburbs to join Dallas Area Rapid Transit, our regional rail system. The suburbs are what's wrong with DART. Screw the suburbs.... More >>

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  Not Even The News Can Endorse Neumann

  published Apr 21, 2011

  The Dallas Morning News has just endorsed attorney Scott Griggs over incumbent District 3 council member Dave Neumann in the May election. If Neumann were a high school quarterback, this would be like... More >>

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  Mike Rawlings Says He Wants to Fix the Schools. Sure, But Talk is Cheap.

  published Apr 21, 2011

  Ah, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I call "rubber meets road" on the school district issue in the mayor's race. Candidate Mike Rawlings has been getting himself some political mileage on the hustings ... More >>

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  We Are the World: If We Want Dallas to Be "Truly Great," We Must Begin at the Bottom

  published Apr 20, 2011

  Isn't it interestingr The one question that seems to bubble back to the top time and time again in the ongoing mayor's race is the world-class city thing. Whyr Maybe it's just semantics. Maybe what ... More >>

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  The Dallas City Council's Bridge Builders: Not Exactly the Best and Brightest

  published Apr 19, 2011

  Forgive me, or just slap me, if this is way too tea-leaves for you, but I can't help trying to read the dregs, you know, trying to see what's behind the burqa, since this city is such a Talibaptist my... More >>

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  Sorry, Belo, But I Can't Sign Off On Your Stance That Dallas Needs Another "Signature" Bridge

  published Apr 18, 2011

  OK, wait, wait, wait. Sorry. I don't get it. I need a little catch-up here. The second Calatrava fake suspension "signature bridge" across the Trinity is going to be a bicycle bridger A bicycle bridge... More >>

• Breaking News: The Rich Get Richer While The Rest of Us Get Squeezed. Oh. Wait.

  published Apr 14, 2011

  David Cay Johnston, author of the best-seller Free Lunch, has a great piece out this week called "9 Things the Rich Don't Want You to Know About Taxes," providing powerful evidence that middle and wor... More >>

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  Council Just Loosened Ethics Regulations Restricting Zoning Cases and Contributions

  published Apr 13, 2011

  Did you realize our city council was faced with a crisis of too much ethicsr Yup. Apparently the council has been staggering under the weight of way too much ethics. So today they approved a proposal ... More >>

• Breathalyzer Tests for City Council, an Idea Whose Time Has Come.

  published April 14, 2011

  Spanish prisoners: By the time you're reading this, Dallas City Council probably has already voted on whether to approve a cunning plan... More >>

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  Breathalyzers for the City Council, Now There's an Idea Worth $10 Million

  published Apr 12, 2011

  I have a new idea for controlling costs at City Hall. Breathalyzers for the city council, because those people must be drunk. The city is in the toilet, so broke it can't mow the parks. So broke it c... More >>

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  The Dallas Morning News Wants to Break Up District 14. Wow, What a Surprise.

  published Apr 11, 2011

  Oh, so now it starts. Here it comes. Camouflaged in a lot of pompous blather about a fair city council redistricting process, The Dallas Morning News is already waving the banner for chopping up the E... More >>

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  How Texas Got Fracked Over By Gas Drillers

  published Apr 08, 2011

  We added insult to injury a long time ago in this whole business of fracking in Dallas -- you know, the kind of natural gas drilling where they blow up underground rocks in a geological formation call... More >>

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  A Former Public Transit Whore Gets Religion

  published Apr 08, 2011

  I used to be such a mass transit whore. I had this post-'60s idea that cars and highways are bad, which they are, so that must mean trains are good. I examine that reasoning now, and I think, "So if s... More >>

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  Look Out, Motor City. Here Comes Big D.

  published Apr 07, 2011

  Really interesting story in yesterday's New York Times about my hometown, Detroit, where the population is now half what it was when I bailed in the late 1970s. It seems Detroit is now on the cutting ... More >>

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  Why Should You Pay for Park Cities Dowagers' Trinity Baublesr

  published Apr 06, 2011

  Check me on this. In an atmosphere of federal, state, county and city funding crises, where we may even see the defunding of federal health care reform, the gutting of the Environmental Protection Age... More >>

• We Need a Mayor Who'll Cut Up City Hall's Credit Card.

  published April 7, 2011

  Honest question. Are you even aware there is a race going on now for mayor of Dallas? Honest answers only, please. It's OK. Especially... More >>

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  Dear Dallas Morning News: I Love the Pay Wall. No, Really. Now May I Please Come Inr

  published Apr 05, 2011

  I'm all for pay walls. Pay walls r me. When newspapers like The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times put up pay walls, charging readers for access to news content, I figure they're trying to get... More >>

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  Fracking: What We Don't Know Could Kill a Goat. Or Give 'Em One Hell of a Nosebleed.

  published Apr 04, 2011

  Maybe the biggest problem with the fracking issue is that it involves the deadly, mind-numbing and sleep-inducing phrase "parts per billion." Otherwise I might have cracked the case long ago. Frackin... More >>

• When It Comes to Dez Bryant, It Sure Sounds Like Someone's Taking Advantage of a Kid

  published Mar 31, 2011

  Who loans two hundred grand to a college kid from a poor familyr There's just a whole lot about the Dez Bryant stories that does not smell right. Dallas Cowboys receiver Bryant is being sued for the ... More >>

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  How Do You Run a City Without Taxesr I've Got Just the Ticket -- Two, As a Matter of Fact.

  published Mar 30, 2011

  All of the candidates for mayor say the city's falling apart but we can't raise taxes. If both of these things are true, something's got to give, and I think I know what it will be. Me. First, I'm do... More >>

• Mayor Dwaine Caraway still doesn't get how he abused the system.

  published March 31, 2011

  You needed to be there. Last week, moments after Dallas Mayor Dwaine Caraway lost his attempt to suppress an embarrassing police voice... More >>

• How Bad Will Things Have to Get Before We Make Them Better?

  published March 31, 2011

  Hope like hell: Two experiences over the weekend have given Buzz hope. One was watching a documentary on the catastrophic 1911 Triangle... More >>

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  And Why Do You Want to Be Dallas Mayorr

  published Mar 29, 2011

  Who says the four Dallas mayoral candidates haven't distinguished themselves from one anotherr Last night at that forum at Thomas Jefferson High School, the first question they had to answer (and the... More >>

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  Does Texas Need a Debacler

  published Mar 29, 2011

  Two experiences over the weekend have given me hope. One was watching a documentary on the catastrophic 1911 Triangle Waist Factory Fire in New York, and the other was a seminar I attended on the stat... More >>

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  "Regionalism" Just Means Dallas is Going to Get Drilled When It Comes to Fracking

  published Mar 28, 2011

  So-called regionalism is a rip-off, a scam and a hoax designed to neuter cities and sell them down the river to the damned suburbs. A few weeks from now the Dallas City Council will take up the issue... More >>