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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2012 Stories by Jim Schutze

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  FEATURED STORY

  Muni Courts Battle Isn't About Race, Except Maybe in a Good Way

  published Aug 30, 2012

  The big City Hall racial blow-up over a reform of our very screwed up municipal court system -- subject of a sort of weird editorial in The Dallas Morning News this morning -- is probably a harbinger ... More >>

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  What Garland Road Really Needs is a Touch of Frisco's Class

  published Aug 29, 2012

  Well, I guess Eric Nicholson and Jeff Siegel just know everything, don't theyr Nicholson, our own blog editor here, and Siegel, a columnist for the Lakewood Advocate, have been having fun making of Li... More >>

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  The Lies Keep Rollin' on the Trinity River Toll Road

  published Aug 28, 2012

  While I was away on vacation The Dallas Morning News published an editorial saying Angela Hunt, Scott Griggs and Sandy Greyson, our three brainiacs on the City Council, are stupid, don't know how to a... More >>

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  Worried About Aerial Sprayingr Steve Blow Thinks You're on the "Lunatic Fringe."

  published Aug 27, 2012

  Gone for a week. Vacation. Back. First thing, walked the dogs in the 'hood. Got a half dozen mosquito bites. So I thought the mayor bombed the mosquitos while I was gone. What is up with thatr Are the... More >>

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  On the Trail of a Greener City, Hope Lives

  published Aug 17, 2012

  Years ago. How manyr I don't know. When was the time before the time we started fighting about the Trinity River toll roadr Was there such a timer I first talked to City Council member Angela Hunt abo... More >>

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  Your Government Says It's OK to Spray You With Poison. Anybody See a Problemr

  published Aug 16, 2012

  Great. So tonight the government sprays us with piperonyl butoxide. To reassure us, the TV news last night shows us a guy from the company doing the spraying who tells us just not to worry. I say wo... More >>

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  Medicare Debate is the Real Death Squad Issue

  published Aug 15, 2012

  Reading about the Medicare debate and listening to friends and neighbors talk about it, I always come to the same conclusion: Your opinions depend entirely on your personal experiences. A commenter h... More >>

• The Inland Port Can Still Win the Race for Jobs If We Don't Let Fixers Screw Us

  published August 16, 2012

  Last week in a Dallas City Council session someone suggested that maybe Dallas has fallen a bit behind in the race to become a primary... More >>

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  How You Gonna Keep Down on the Farm After They've Seen Dalleer

  published Aug 14, 2012

  Gosh, I've been reading about the secret negotiations between the two groups of fancy people downtown over how to control the light, and I can't help thinking of the Paris Peace Talks to end the Vietn... More >>

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  Paul Ryan Pick Proves They Don't Make Rich People Like They Used To

  published Aug 13, 2012

  What country is thisr Have I been on some kind of horrendous toot, and did I sleep for a month, and did I wake up in the wrong countryr All weekend long on my TV set I kept seeing Paul Ryan, the right... More >>

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  Poison or West Niler Why Would Anybody ask a Newspaper Guyr

  published Aug 10, 2012

  All right. A brief time-outr Before we all die of West Nile or shut down our endocrine systems with toxins, should we call in somebody who, unlike me or some editorial writer at the Morning News, actu... More >>

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  Now We're Punishing Cops Over Fast-Food Bags. That's Pretty Chickenshit.

  published Aug 09, 2012

  Wait. I'm a libtard. I'm politically correct. I hate bullies. I despise people who make fun of a co-worker for being different from them. But they sent a Dallas police sergeant to deep nights at the j... More >>

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  Dena Schlosser, the Plano Baby Chopper, is Outed then Fired from Walmart. Now Whatr

  published Aug 08, 2012

  The moment Channel 8 reporter Teresa Woodard opened her mouth to tell viewers Dena Schlosser, the Plano baby chopper, had been seen working as a checker at Walmart, you knew Dena Schlosser was already... More >>

• Devil In The Details

  published August 9, 2012

  The Carnival Cruise Ship boat club barge that a rowing club wanted to build on White Rock Lake seems to have shrunk back into a modest, nicely... More >>

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  Wait, Wait, Can We Talkr Before We Dump a Bunch of Chemicals from Planesr Pleaser

  published Aug 07, 2012

  So I was right yesterday. As Eric just reported, the pressure is on to escalate the local war on West Nile from truck spraying of pesticides to airplane spraying. This decision will be left to that a... More >>

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  What We're Spraying for West Nile Doesn't Work, Isn't Safe and Kills Every Bug in its Path

  published Aug 06, 2012

  So on the radio this morning I hear all about the spike in West Nile deaths in Dallas and how the county health department will be on the job tonight protecting us by sending the pesticide trucks thro... More >>

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  Run for It! The Authorities are Coming!

  published Aug 03, 2012

  The Houston Mayor's Office of Homeland Security and something called the regional Catastrophic Planning Initiative have produced a public service video called "Run, Hide, Fight," advising people on w... More >>

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  Ted Cruz Gets His Honeymoon -- But Only in the Straight, Godly Meaning of the Word

  published Aug 02, 2012

  Basic rule of American democracy: Anybody who wins an election gets 10 seconds of credibility. Let's hope in the case of Ted Cruz, lionized today in The New York Times as "A Republican Voice With Tea... More >>

• No Bones About Consciousness Festival

  published July 26, 2012

  On the day of his death last February 15, Bandele Tyehimba, proprietor of the Pan African Connection art gallery and book store in... More >>

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  New Black Panther Party Offers Sad Comedy in the Face of Real Tragedy

  published Aug 01, 2012

  The so-called "New Black Panther Party" in Dallas, now trying to exploit the James Harper shooting in Dixon Circle, always leaves me with the same dilemma. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. I felt... More >>

• Spraying to Stop West Nile - Is It Safe?

  published August 2, 2012

  Not trying to be obnoxious. This is not I-told-you-so. But I did told you so. In a column published December 29, I did point out that... More >>

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  It's the Culture, Stupid

  published Jul 31, 2012

  Tale of two cities in the morning papers -- well, two and a half, if you include Mitt Romney. The Reverend Gerald Britt has a mesmerizing op-ed piece in The Dallas Morning News today about the agony o... More >>

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  No, Really, the Cops Should Shoot Guys Who Fight. (Oh, and Schutze Has a Radio Show.)

  published Jul 30, 2012

  Nowadays every Monday morning at 7 am I'm on KNON Radio 89.3 doing a radio version of "Get Off My Lawn," pretty much the same thing you see here except that I'm naked. If like a lot of people you f... More >>

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  After a Greed Orgy, the Big Money Guys Get Repentant. Don't Trust Them.

  published Jul 27, 2012

  Wait. Time out. Take notice. We are experiencing a new form of national crisis. It can no longer be denied. The United States is now suffering from a crisis of Total Wrongness. Most people are going ... More >>

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  Dwaine Caraway on Dixon Circle Killing: Fix the Big Picture or See It Get Worse

  published Jul 26, 2012

  We're all holed up behind our verbal barricades on this Dixon Circle deal, me among the worst of them, surprise surprise. So maybe it's worth remembering that Dallas city councilman Dwaine Caraway was... More >>