Email Author Jim Schutze

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Dallas Morning News Tippy-Toes Away"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 20, 2011

  "How Not to Humiliate Yourself as a Journalist"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Picking Apart The Dallas Morning News' Smug Sense"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 6, 2011

  "Rick Perry's Manufactured Miracle"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published May 5, 2011

  "The Trinity River's 'Standing Wave' Crashes into Reality"

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published July 7, 2011

  "So John Wiley Price Really Wanted Some Land..."

• 2012 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists, published September 29, 2011

  "Lowering the Bars"

• 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

  "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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2013 Stories by Jim Schutze

• FEATURED STORY

  NAACP's Juanita Wallace Ready to Cancel DISD Superintendent Mike Miles' Black Card

  published May 09, 2013

  Working on a big story about school reform these days. (Note to editor: definitely see completion this year, possibly early next. Best way you can help -- make sure I keep up my darned morale.) Speak... More >>

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  Of Murder, Cupcakes and a Silly Way of Looking at How We Should Grieve

  published May 08, 2013

  Michael Vincent Moore, 57, arrested in the murder of his niece, 16-year-old Alicia Moore of Greenville, can still turn out to be utterly innocent, uninvolved in any way, when the wheels of justice slo... More >>

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  SMU's Deal with Bush Library Threatens University's Academic Independence

  published May 07, 2013

  You know what's wrong with the Bush Presidential Center at SMUr It's not a terrible thing or place in and of itself, yet. But what's wrong already is that it represents such a lay-down by the leadersh... More >>

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  Now Dallas Business Leaders Are Lining Up Against Mike Miles. But Whyr

  published May 06, 2013

  Three prominent Dallas business leaders have written a caustic public letter to Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles, taking him to task generally for not conferring with them personally on school ref... More >>

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  House Bill Wants to Protect Internet Privacy from Employers' Snooping. What Privacyr

  published May 03, 2013

  The Texas House is about to pass a bill that would bar employers from forcing employees and job applicants to cough up their social media passwords. Proponents here and around the country claim socia... More >>

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  John Wiley Price is Right -- This Time -- to Support Health Director on Mosquito Spraying

  published May 02, 2013

  Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is exactly right to support Zachary Thompson, the county's embattled health director responsible for fighting West Nile disease. Zachary Thompson is exactl... More >>

• Will the Bush Library Reveal Any Secrets?

  published May 2, 2013

  Last week the city's only daily newspaper published a package of three opinion pieces about the new George W. Bush presidential library in... More >>

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  Americans Under 30 the Most Cynical Bunch Ever. Good for Them. And Us.

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Took a few days off to go canoeing on the Buffalo River in Arkansas -- always a fine way to clear the mind and ease the soul -- and came home to wonderful news: The Harvard Institute of Politics relea... More >>

• The Times' Jill Abramson is Coming to Town. Be Sure to Follow Her Speech on Twitter.

  published Apr 24, 2013

  Jill Abramson, executive editor of my favorite daily newspaper, The New York Times, will speak in town a week from tomorrow, 10 days later than originally planned. Her announced topic will be the same... More >>

• From West to Boston to China: Terrible Things Happen. You Have Two Weeks to Get Over It.

  published Apr 23, 2013

  Just so people won't get caught unaware, I want to point out that the town of West has until a week from tomorrow to grieve. That will be two weeks from the time of the industrial accident that blew u... More >>

• Be Very Afraid: In the Texas House, the Gun Lobby and the Boston Bombing, the Fear-Mongerers are Winning

  published Apr 22, 2013

  So who exactly wants innocent people sent to prison for lifer C'mon. You know this one. We all know the answer. It's the same people who think we should toss out the Constitution and put American citi... More >>

• A Better Way on the Trinity Highway

  published April 18, 2013

  Let's be real, for a change, about the debate over building an eight-lane highway along the river at the western border of downtown. Sometimes... More >>

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  Senator Ted Cruz Wants Everyone to Shut Up About Guns. Senate Tells Him to Stick It.

  published Apr 12, 2013

  What does it mean that Republicans and independents joined Democrats yesterday to shut down Texas Senator Ted Cruz's anti-gun reform filibusterr It means Cruz lost a lot more than his filibuster. At... More >>

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  Lowering Testing Standards is not an Effort to Help Poor Kids. It's a Way to Screw Them.

  published Apr 11, 2013

  Story in The New York Times this morning about efforts in the Texas Legislature to cut back testing and course requirements for graduation from high school. If you sort through, most the alligator-tea... More >>

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  Ronald Johnson Gambled and Lost at JCP, but that Doesn't Mean He Made a Bad Bet

  published Apr 10, 2013

  What to make of the big boot at JC Penneyr CEO Ronald B. Johnson came tumbling out that door grabbing for his hat like a riverboat gambler evicted from First Baptist. Sometimes it's hard to look cool.... More >>

• DISD Trustees Are Ready to Fight for Principals

  published April 11, 2013

  What are we in for? Before we can understand the accountability wars heating up now in the Dallas school system, we have to see the battle from... More >>

• Big Cities Have a Glut of Lawyers While Small Towns Suffer

  published Apr 09, 2013

  Everybody knows the Shakespeare quote, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." It's the stuff of T-shirts. But how many people know what it was aboutr In Henry VI, Dick the Butcher propo... More >>

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  OK, So Don't Bulldoze Fair Park. Let's Re-imagine It -- In a Better Neighborhood.

  published Apr 08, 2013

  All right, maybe it wasn't enormously helpful of me to suggest last July that we bulldoze Fair Park, the 277-acre dilapidated wasteland one mile southeast of downtown that once housed the 1936 Texas ... More >>

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  Hey, Rick Perry, Listen. Is That a Fat Lady You Hear Singingr

  published Apr 05, 2013

  Is it too soon and maybe even bad luck to say this out loudr Is it even possible that Governor Oops could be overr I'm knocking on wood, tossing salt over my shoulder, making the sign of the cross wit... More >>

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  There's a Design Contest to Connect Downtown and the Trinity River. You Should Sabotage It.

  published Apr 04, 2013

  When I read a story in The Dallas Morning News this morning about a contest for ideas to link the Trinity River to downtown and saw that the contestants were required to include the city's stupid unde... More >>

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  Bernadette Nutall Raises the Stakes in the War Over Protecting Favored DISD Principals

  published Apr 03, 2013

  On March 22, I penned a story for this page in which I portrayed school district trustee Bernadette Nutall as appearing to be "neutral" on school reform. Her apparent neutrality made her a very sing... More >>

• Craig Watkins' Contempt Battle a Silly Distraction in Scary Times

  published Apr 02, 2013

  I'm scared. One, I'm scared because of what's going on in Kaufman County. Two, I'm even more scared because of what's going on here, which seems to be one big stupid-fest. You will remember, perhaps... More >>

• Depsite Bomb Threats, Park Cities Schools Reject Metal Detectors as Too "Urban"

  published April 4, 2013

  We all know by now that the high school in the affluent enclave communities of Highland Park and University Park is under siege from bomb and... More >>

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  Legislature's Step Backward on School Testing Makes Us Like France, Only Racist

  published Apr 01, 2013

  When I was the adolescent son of a family of modest means in a factory town in Michigan, I won a scholarship to study French by living for a summer with a French working class family. It had some to d... More >>

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  Despite Bomb Threats, Metal Detectors are too Urban for Highland Park High

  published Mar 29, 2013

  UPDATE: HPISD sent a letter in response to this post, and because it's too long to publish in our comments, we've added to the end. I have a column coming out in next week's paper about the bomb and... More >>