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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  If You Fight With a Cop, Why Shouldn't the Cop Shoot Your

  published Jul 25, 2012

  In Anna Merlan's coverage of the disturbance last night at Dixon and Bourquin streets about a mile and a half southeast of Fair Park, one particular scenario leapt out. People in the crowd defended th... More >>

• The Rise of Dallas' New Pioneers

  published July 26, 2012

  I get window shocked every once in a while. I'm in the car going from some pillar to some post, staring straight ahead thinking about stupid... More >>

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  Fake Penalties for Penn State, Fake Grades, Fake Success: Learning Nothing from a Scandal

  published Jul 24, 2012

  The important image is Jerry Sandusky down there in the shower-room doing it to kids. Somehow a penalty that involves not being able to play in bowl games just seems terribly out of whack. I do get ... More >>

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  Colorado Shooting Shows Again How the NRA Plays us for Patsies

  published Jul 23, 2012

  You're kidding me, rightr We just sit here like patsies and let the gun nuts tell us we're not allowed to protect ourselves from the next James Holmesr We know there will be a next one, because we kn... More >>

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  The Morning News and John Cornyn: A Match Made in Fantasyland

  published Jul 20, 2012

  An "op-ed" page in a newspaper -- the page opposite the editorials -- is supposed to be a kind of village square for diverse voices, but does that mean it should be a billboard for liesr The case in p... More >>

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  Our Tollway Guys Can't Even Collect Tolls -- and That's Just the Start of Their Problems

  published Jul 19, 2012

  If I had one of those framed crochet mottos on the wall over my desk, it would say, "Give Credit Where Credit is Due, asterisk." Below the asterisk at the bottom of the frame it would say, "Except fo... More >>

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  As the March of the Heartless Traipses Through Texas, Don't You Dare Retreat

  published Jul 18, 2012

  The question I hear more frequently now from people in Texas with functioning brains is, "When do we finally have to get out of Texasr" Or is it functioning heartsr There can only be one answer: Ne... More >>

• The Best Thing To Do with Fair Not-Really-A-Park Is Tear That Mother Down

  published July 19, 2012

  Some readers, not a whole herd of them but a few, objected recently to my suggestion on our Unfair Park news blog that the city should bulldoze... More >>

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  In Tower Fight, D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers Fails to Disclose His Wife's Employer Did Work for Nasher Center

  published Jul 17, 2012

  Once again, D Magazine Editor Tim Rogers demonstrates that he struggles with severe intellectual and ethical challenges. Or something. In mid-April D Magazine published a cover story called "Towering... More >>

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  Predicting What the News Will Say about the Trinity Doesn't Require a Crystal Ball

  published Jul 16, 2012

  OK, look: if I predict the future, and the future turns out to be exactly what I predicted, I have a right to point that out, rightr It's not bragging. C'mon. It's more like pointing out that I wasn't... More >>

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  How Did Joe Paterno and His Cronies Live with Those Imagesr How Do Wer

  published Jul 13, 2012

  The Joe Paterno/Jerry Sandusky story is like a coffee table puzzle I can solve most of the way but never completely. Maybe you can show me the last moves. The first move is this. Beginning in 1998, a... More >>

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  City Staff's Complaint Against Judges: They're Too Damned Fair

  published Jul 12, 2012

  Every time City Hall sets about reforming its own court system through the judicial appointments process, I see that same old bad penny coming around again. They want municipal court judges who will d... More >>

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  From Russia With Glub, a Warning About the Trinity Toll Road

  published Jul 11, 2012

  Want to know what's really going on in Dallasr Keep an eye on Krymsk. Last Saturday more than 170 people died in flash floods in this southern Russia city. Today The New York Times reports that angry... More >>

• Trinity Toll Road Doesn't Add Up

  published July 12, 2012

  From the beginning of the Trinity River toll road debate 14 years ago, one of the biggest hurdles faced by critics of the road has been the... More >>

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  Boys Will Be Boys, So Segregate the Li'l Bastards

  published Jul 10, 2012

  Never ever thought I would hear myself saying this --- ever never ever. But there may be something to say for certain kinds of all boys schools. Well, that is, if there is anything good at all to say ... More >>

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  Ain't No Call fer Us to Pick a Side in Them Rich Folks' Museum Feudin'

  published Jul 09, 2012

  Update/Correction/Apology/Literary Forehead Slap: The premise of this column is a stupid mistake on my part. For some time I have labored under the impression that Lucy Crow Billingsley, a daughter of... More >>

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  A Plan for Fair Park: Bulldoze It

  published Jul 06, 2012

  Over at The Dallas Morning News uniblog, my former colleague Robert Wilonsky has an item keeping us up to date on plans to turn Fair Park in South Dallas into a year-round commercial amusement park, a... More >>

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  Police and Fire Pension Fund Want to Invest in 'Infrastructure.' Whatever Could That Ber

  published Jul 05, 2012

  This morning I found a story in my copy of The Dallas Morning News called "Dallas Police & Fire Pension System looks to reduce its real estate exposure." Translated into ordinary English, that headlin... More >>

• While Dallas Chokes on the Trinity, the Suburbs Show Us How It's Done

  published July 5, 2012

  Let's go back to hell first, see how things are going down there. Then we'll visit heaven. Promise. We are trudging in together, you... More >>

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  GOP Arguments Against Obamacare Leave Me Empty-Handed

  published Jul 03, 2012

  So I'm doing a this-hand versus that-hand thing in my head on Obamacare. Everybody says the Republicans are going to make this year's presidential election a referendum on the Affordable Care Act. I j... More >>

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  We Few, We Miserable Few: Jim Rallies the Troops With Words Fit for Henry V

  published Jul 02, 2012

  Sometimes I think the dumbest people to talk to about the newspaper business are newspaper people, of which I am one, obviously. Is it possible to scream blindnessr David Carr, The New York Times's me... More >>

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  Mike Rawlings' B.S. Pro-Toll-Road Data Won't Be Enough to Get it Built

  published Jun 29, 2012

  Fine. So the Toll Road Creature Who Comes in the Night paid a visit to Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings bedroom recently, and now he's a "Toll Road Guy." Yesterday the Toll Road Guy handed out an utterly ... More >>

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  Mayor Mike Gets the Answer He Wanted on the Trinity Toll Road. But Don't You Believe It.

  published Jun 28, 2012

  Dallas Mayor Mike ("I'm a toll road guy") Rawlings has pitched a bunch of numbers to the media that he says prove Dallas should build the Trinity toll road before it fixes the existing freeways downto... More >>

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  Robert Groden: The Plaza Man

  published Jun 28, 2012

  In this week's Dallas Observer, we profile 30 of the metro area's most interesting characters, with new portraits of each from local photographer Mark Graham. See the entire Dallas Observer People Iss... More >>

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  How to Cut the Price of Higher Ed: Don't Pay It

  published Jun 27, 2012

  So Teresa Sullivan, the president who didn't cut costs at the University of Virginia, got her job back anyway. Meanwhile making the rounds of newspaper op-ed pages is an essay by Jeff Selingo, edito... More >>