Email Author Jim Schutze
Awards
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2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards
"Dallas Morning News Tippy-Toes Away"
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2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 20, 2011
"How Not to Humiliate Yourself as a Journalist"
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2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards
"Picking Apart The Dallas Morning News' Smug Sense"
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2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 6, 2011
"Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle"
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2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published May 5, 2011
"The Trinity River's 'Standing Wave' Crashes into Reality"
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2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published July 7, 2011
"So John Wiley Price Really Wanted Some Land..."
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2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published September 29, 2011
"Lowering the Bars"
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2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published May 27, 2010
"Into the Wild"
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2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 11, 2010
"Hammer Time"
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2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 1, 2010
"Mr. Unknown"
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2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2010
"Low Riders"
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2011 - Lone Star Awards, published May 27, 2010
"Into the Wild"
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2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 23, 2010
"Return to Sender"
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2011 - Lone Star Awards, published October 28, 2010
"Going to Extremes"
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2010 - Lone Star Awards, published April 23, 2009
"Off Course"
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2010 - Lone Star Awards, published October 15, 2009
"Guilty"
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2010 - Lone Star Awards, published April 23, 2009
"Whitewashing Reality"
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2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 24, 2009
"Irony City"
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2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 23, 2009
"Whitewashing Reality"
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2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 26, 2009
"The Fall Guy"
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2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 21, 2008
"Eat My Dirt"
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2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 31, 2008
"What's in a Nombre"
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2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 17, 2008
"No Nature for Old Men"
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2009 - Lone Star Awards, published November 20, 2008
"What Chutzpah!"
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2008 - Lone Star Awards, published October 4, 2007
"City Hall's Same Sick Story"
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2006 - Katie Awards, published November 18, 2004
"Call 911"
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2006 - Katie Awards, published November 18, 2004
"Call 911"
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2006 - Katie Awards, published May 19, 2005
"Bozo Rules"
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2006 - Katie Awards, published June 16, 2005
"Stuff It"
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2006 - Katie Awards, published January 13, 2005
"Garbage to You"
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2006 - Katie Awards, published April 7, 2005
"Mayorzilla"
2012 Stories by Jim Schutze
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FEATURED STORY
THIS JUST IN: Tim Rogers Probably Not a Cannibal. Nasher vs. Tower Fight Drags On.
published Nov 28, 2012
Two things to start. 1) Don't know much about architecture. 2) Tim Rogers and his wife probably are not cannibals. Or anything like that. You know what I mean. Rogers, the editor of D Magazine, and ... More >>
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Assassination? What Assassination?
published November 29, 2012
On November 22 of next year, Dallas will observe The 50th. No, not Dallas' 50th. Not your 50th. THE 50th. The 50th anniversary of mm-mm. We're... More >>
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Environmentalists Say Dallas County is Plotting a "Mosquito District" for Pre-emptive Spraying
published Nov 27, 2012
Something a little bizarre going down this morning at Dallas County Commissioners Court. Or not. A number of people are supposed to show up at this morning's commissioners meeting to speak against a... More >>
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The Senate Wades into Cell Phone Privacy This Week. Will They Come Out Aliver
published Nov 26, 2012
Damn! Who the hell is in my pocketr This morning's New York Times tells me Senate hearings will convene Thursday on the issue of cell phone privacy. I convened yesterday. My wife was complaining abou... More >>
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Let's Give Thanks Romney Couldn't Keep His Pie-Hole Shut
published Nov 23, 2012
A wonderful Thanksgiving behind me, having managed to enjoy generous hospitality in Wichita Falls while keeping my mouth shut about Obama. But now it's the morning after, and Monsieur Gilles de la Tou... More >>
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With Commissioner Maurine Dickey Pushed Out, Who Has the Guts to Resist JWPr
published Nov 21, 2012
Damn. Now I have to send Roland Dickey's barbecue book back to him. I got it a few days back. It was a gift. I looked it up online, and it's worth about 45 bucks with shipping. I want to say something... More >>
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City Preps for the 50th. Just Don't Ask "The 50th Whatr"
published Nov 20, 2012
This afternoon I attended a media event in the Old Red Courthouse Museum to announce plans for the 50th. Don't ask 50th what. "The name is simply the 50th," Mayor Mike Rawlings said firmly at the be... More >>
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Seeds of Hope for Dallas Farmers Market
published November 22, 2012
Look, you did not hear this here, OK? I don't want to have any of this attributed to me. Anyway, it's possible I overdid my Benadryl and maybe... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Remember Rod Dreher, the Cultural Revolutionaryr
published Nov 20, 2012
Spent the first part of morning searching around on-line for anything to remind me why Rod Dreher and I used to fight. No luck, really. When he was here working on The Dallas Morning News editorial ... More >>
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Klyde Warren Park is Every Kind of Wonderful. No, Really. I Have Video.
published Nov 19, 2012
So a couple weeks ago Angela Hunt calls me up and tells me I have to go down to the new deck park. Then maybe two days later my wife starts telling me I have to go down to the new deck park. So Sunda... More >>
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Big Road Project Downtown Exposes City Hall's Big Lie
published Nov 16, 2012
Every once in a while life provides us with a major reality check, which can be good or bad, depending on our relationship with reality. The news yesterday that the massive reconstruction of Dallas' d... More >>
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Lessons from Dez Bryant: It's OK to Smack Mom Around, Cowboy
published Nov 15, 2012
The story in today's Dallas Morning News about Dallas Cowboys football player Dez Bryant getting off on mom-beating charges contains this line about Bryant's lawyer, state Senator Royce West: "West sa... More >>
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Gmail Got Petraeus; You're Next, Mr. All-Caps Commenter Guy
published Nov 14, 2012
Hey, All-Caps Guy. We need to have a talk. Really. I sometimes poke you with a sharp stick. You poke back. That's what I want. But sometimes when you poke, I wince. Not for me. For you. You know, I ... More >>
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Pony Up for a Horse Park
published November 15, 2012
Last week I attended a Dallas City Council briefing in which I heard a top staff member tell council members the city needs to spend $12... More >>
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Park Cities Rape Controversy Suggests Maybe It's Time For Parents to Have the Talk. A Real One.
published Nov 13, 2012
The area we call the Park Cities, twin affluent enclave municipalities surrounded by Dallas proper, is riven by a rape case in which the son of a prominent family stands accused. One reason that case ... More >>
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No Country for White, Old Men
published Nov 12, 2012
Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg has a new column out saying the presidential election was about our desire as a nation to become more European and by sad inference less American. Do you remember... More >>
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Beyond the Stink Over Shirley Ison-Newsome's Departure, Remembering the Good She Did at DISD
published Nov 09, 2012
OK, I guess we're all going to pile on departing Dallas school executive Shirley Ison-Newsome, a person accused of serial scandals and of making off with a bunch of loot in the form of a "golden parac... More >>
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How City Officials Keep Dallas Segregated, and the Two Developers Suing to Stop Them
published Nov 08, 2012
Yesterday I wrote about Curtis Lockey and Craig MacKenzie, who were on my mind Tuesday night as I watched the final electoral votes for Obama click into place. Lockey and MacKenzie are real estate dev... More >>
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Perhaps Now Barack Obama Can Be the Sheriff We Deputized in 2008
published Nov 07, 2012
Last night, when those final electoral votes rang up on my CNN app, I suddenly thought of Curtis Lockey and Craig Mackenzie, two guys who have been missing from the news for a while. I told you about... More >>
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Get Off Jefferson's Lawn: On Election Day, an Ode to the Free, Diverse, Annoying Press
published Nov 06, 2012
Op-ed piece by Princeton professor Kevin M. Kruse in this morning's New York Times argues the real loser in this election cycle was the truth. Kruse marshals instances on both sides of the line but ... More >>
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Screw the Art Gods, Museum Tower Sure Is Pretty
published Nov 05, 2012
Funny how you can drive by a thing a dozen times and never really see it. An early morning errand today took me through the north end of downtown on the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. I looked up from traff... More >>
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Teachers All Over Dallas Feel Reviled By Dallas ISD and Superintendent Mike Miles
published Nov 02, 2012
For several weeks I have been wondering if anybody else was hearing the same drumbeat of deep bitter dissatisfaction from Dallas public school teachers that I've been getting. So now it turns out some... More >>
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Judge John Creuzot Leaving the Bench. Let's Hope Someone Else Keeps His Work Going.
published Nov 01, 2012
Stunned and disappointed to learn this morning that Dallas felony court Judge John C. Creuzot will leave to go into private practice after two decades on the bench. In terms of the law and courts -- h... More >>
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What Do Lance Armstrong, Dopers and Nazis Have in Common?
published November 1, 2012
Wyatt Earp shot from the hip. He was a hero. So do I shoot from the hip sometimes? Bring me the target. Last week on our news blog I... More >>
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Romney's Lies to Auto Workers Show He Doesn't Get the Modern World
published Oct 30, 2012
So here we are at the door to election day. In the nation it all comes down to Ohio. In Ohio it all comes down to the auto industry. And Mitt Romney is betting his marbles on TV ads that say he's the ... More >>
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