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

  "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"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published April 23, 2009

  "Off Course"

• 2010 - Lone Star Awards, published October 15, 2009

  "Guilty"

• 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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2012 Stories by Jim Schutze

• City Dawdling Leaves Trinity Canoeists Up Shit Creek

  published October 4, 2012

  This is for the paddlers. Not for me. No more ranting by me, no more calling people stupid. Even if they are. We are all on our knees here,... More >>

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  Rick Perry's Sales Pitch for Cheaper, Dumber Universities Is a Lie

  published Oct 02, 2012

  All you ambitious students out there, please take time to understand what Governor Rick Perry is really doing to you when he says he wants to help you graduate from college. It's the opposite. See a... More >>

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  Media Bias Doesn't Matter Much if No One Is Listening Anyway

  published Oct 01, 2012

  David Carr, who writes a media column for The New York Times, has a piece in today's paper about dumb it is for Republicans to claim the mainstream media are biased against Mitt Romney. He pulls a bit... More >>

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  U.S. Postal Service's Slow Demise Looks Suspiciously Like Deliberate Homicide

  published Sep 28, 2012

  Not that we could know anything here at my house about a matter so remote and complex as the looming budget crisis at the U.S. Postal Service, subject of an editorial in today's New York Times. We di... More >>

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  In Louisville, Echoes of the Trinity Toll Road Debate, and a Reminder of How Dumb It Is

  published Sep 27, 2012

  The question of new and more highways in city centers is too profound, too generational, too close to the heart of things: it's never going to get a rational answer. The whole thing is way beyond reas... More >>

• Breaking the Code in a Nefarious Dem/Feminist Plot to Encourage Something Called "Voting"

  published Sep 26, 2012

  I do not love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy. I love a good conspiracy theory way more than the next guy. I know my conspiracy theories. Conspiracy Theories R Me. For me, the most f... More >>

• Remembering Thabiti Olatunji, Fighter for Hope and Law in a Crime-Ridden Neighborhood

  published September 27, 2012

  After grief, the next thing that came to me when I heard about the death of Thabiti Olatunji was his story. It's not the one we normally... More >>

• American Airline Pilots' Slowdown Wins a Victory, Despite What You Read in the DMN

  published Sep 25, 2012

  Mitchell Schnurman is a really good business reporter. The Dallas Morning News scored a major coup recently when it hired him away from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He's an ace, the author of serial ... More >>

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  In the Northern Suburbs, Visiting a Deracinated World of Tomorrow

  published Sep 24, 2012

  So dear to my heart, so very dear is my anti-suburban bias, born of the political battles of yesteryear, back when we actually believed white people could fly. Ah, those were the days, were they notr ... More >>

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  How Mayor Rawlings Saved Face, Kept Some Black Friends and Screwed Some Hispanic Ones in the Process

  published Sep 21, 2012

  Oh, wouldn't you know itr Leave it to me to get all gooh-gooh-eyed and sweety-feets about things. Then cruel reality comes crashing in. It's because I'm just too innocent of heart. Just yesterday, I ... More >>

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  As Minority Council Members Play the Race Card, the Mayor Goes All In on Court Reform

  published Sep 20, 2012

  Maybe it is like watching them make sausage, but at least you have to give them a tip of the hat when they get the sausage right. The mayor and the Dallas City Council put themselves through a bruisin... More >>

• Cronies on the Bench

  published September 20, 2012

  Psst. Hey. Wanna see somethin' dirty? Peep in this little window with me. C'mon! We won't get in trouble. Look in here. It's City Hall.... More >>

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  Nothing Changes at Municipal Courts Without Approval from the Ticketmasters

  published Sep 18, 2012

  The secret story behind the story of the Dallas municipal judge fracas is that judges in the city courts don't run their own courts anyway. Ticket lawyers do. I have been talking about this to lawyer... More >>

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  Rambo Romney Should Call for Restarting the Draft

  published Sep 17, 2012

  Make us believe you mean it, Mitt. Bring back the draft. For the better part of a week, I have been reading all these thinly veiled suggestions by Mitt Romney that President Obama isn't enough of an ... More >>

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  City Hall's Cuts of 911 Put Us All at Risk From Crime and Lawsuits

  published Sep 14, 2012

  The 911 problem itself is bad enough, but the mayor and the police chief are about to drive me crazy. At our house we record the news and watch it right before going to bed. It's worse than chips and ... More >>

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  Dear Benjamin Netanyahu, Could You do a Mitzvah for Dallasr

  published Sep 13, 2012

  This is a personal letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Dear Prime Minister: My name is Jim Schutze. I am a columnist for the Dallas Observer. I write about local things here. My pol... More >>

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  Chicago's Teacher Quality Debater Texas Republicans Built That. Thank God.

  published Sep 12, 2012

  The New York Times this morning has a piece arguing that the Chicago teachers strike is a window on the nation's heart over the last few years, where education is concerned. I would say it's been 15 y... More >>

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  City Hall's Notion of Flow Control: Money Flows in, Control Gets Trashed

  published Sep 11, 2012

  Last year, Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm and Mayor Mike Rawlings locked arms to push through a so-called "flow control" law, now locked up in a lawsuit, forcing commercial trash haulers in Dallas to u... More >>

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  City Council's Municipal Court "Reform" Smells a Lot Like Bad Patronage

  published Sep 10, 2012

  Pretty good time this morning on Get Off My Lawn on KNON Radio (7a.m. every Monday), where I talked about a bunch of stuff but especially this morning's upcoming Dallas City Council budget briefing wh... More >>

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  Two Conventions: One for Old White People, One for Everyone Else

  published Sep 07, 2012

  Look, I'm not even the world's biggest fan of political conventions, because they make me feel like I'm trapped in a cubicle with a car salesman. What's to believe about an event where they hire a con... More >>

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  It's Time for Mayor Rawlings to Pick a Side in the La Bajada Battle

  published Sep 06, 2012

  Great editorial this morning in The Dallas Morning News, coming about as close as the News is ever going to come to endorsing the will and wishes of a neighborhood over development plans that would v... More >>

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  Pay Raises for County Commissionersr About Damn Time.

  published Sep 05, 2012

  Guilty little secret time. I'm glad the Dallas County Commissioners voted themselves a 4 percent pay raise Tuesday. I would appreciate it if we could keep this just between us here on Unfair Park, be... More >>

• You Can't Handle the Truth

  published September 6, 2012

  I see everything through flood control. The world. Why? You become what you do. If you take a guy like me and make him a flood-control reporter... More >>

• Let the Democrats Remember: The Wealth of the Nation Doesn't Come from Yachts

  published Sep 04, 2012

  Pins and needles, waiting for the Democrats to open in Charlotte. I am so worried the Obama campaign might stumble on an editorial from The Dallas Morning News and actually read it. Well, not that wor... More >>

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  Shape-Shifting Mitt: From Blue Blood to Blue Collar. That's a Laugh.

  published Aug 31, 2012

  I had a private little laugh and moment of startled disbelief while my wife and I were watching Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last night. Romney described his f... More >>