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

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  FEATURED STORY

  Looks Like the City May Allow Free Speech on JFK 50th After All

  published Mar 11, 2013

  There are signs -- hints, indications, wisps of smoke in the wind -- suggesting we might get out of the JFK 50th observations in one piece after all. I've been quick to suggest Dallas would blow itsel... More >>

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  By Holding Craig Watkins in Contempt, Judge Lena Levario Shows She's a Good Democrat. Some Dallas Democrats May Disagree.

  published Mar 08, 2013

  So who is this Democrat judge, Lena Levario, who not only stands up to Democratic Party golden boy Craig Watkins, our embattled district attorney, but holds him in contempt of courtr Does she not unde... More >>

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  Does Anyone Have a Notion of What JC Penney Even Is Nowr

  published Mar 07, 2013

  I'm trying to think if there is a way the latest news about Plano-based JC Penney could be any more depressing. I was already pretty depressed when I read about the billion dollars in 2012 losses on a... More >>

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  Abbott Goes After Watkins! It's The Demagogue vs. The Nose Thumber in a Cage Smackdown! Who Cares!r Not Me!

  published Mar 06, 2013

  The big news in local politics today is supposed to be that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has publicly slammed Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins over how his office handled a civil s... More >>

• Dallas Still Wants to Control Speech on JFK Anniversary

  published March 7, 2013

  Nothing could be crazier or sadder. It is the continued determination of a small group of people in Dallas to tightly control public... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Mayor Rawlings Calls for Crusade Against Domestic Violence. There's No Shame in That.

  published Mar 05, 2013

  Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is pushing a personal and public agenda against domestic violence, which used to be called wife-beating. Of course the TV news had to do a story about husband-beating to kee... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Southern Dallas' Empire of Failure Wasn't Built by Democrats

  published Mar 04, 2013

  A signed essay in Sunday's Dallas Morning News by editorial writer Tod Robberson suggested the historical lock-step loyalty of black southern Dallas voters to the Democratic Party has done them little... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Morning News Praises Angela Hunt on Drilling! While God's Passing Out Miracles, Maybe We Can Get a Strong Mayor.

  published Mar 01, 2013

  In the very wee hours as my eye first opened to the light of this day, I thought I heard a rushing of wings aloft. I caught my breath. Was this ...r And then distinctly as if from the next room, I hea... More >>

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  Vonciel Hill: City Council Member, Prophet, Theologian and Sell-Out

  published Feb 28, 2013

  This is a little embarrassing. Nobody wants to say it. It's sort of rude, I guess. Uh-oh. Sounds like my job. OK. Here goes. Dallas City Council member Vonciel Hill is a mean-spirited, spiteful suck... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  City's Plan for Boosting Southern Dallasr Horses, Golf and Completely Screwing Over a Latino Small Businessman

  published Feb 27, 2013

  Scott K. Parks has a pretty good OK story in The Dallas Morning News today. It's the good-enough-for-Belo version of a story we brought you two weeks ago about the city's use of eminent domain to sei... More >>

• Mike Miles vs. Patronage: DISD's Impending Principal Purge

  published February 28, 2013

  Several minor political brush fires sent up smoke at the Dallas public school system after a tough new reform-minded superintendent took over... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Dallas Wants Homes for Artists, not Riffraff -- Like There's a Difference

  published Feb 26, 2013

  And here we go with the discussion of cheap housing for artists in that triumphal and glitzy array of Mussoliniano mausoleums that we insist on calling our "arts district," even though art has the sam... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  JFK Conspiracy Theorist Robert Groden goes 81-0 with Latest Win Against City Censors

  published Feb 25, 2013

  Wanted to go ahead and let you know, since apparently nobody else is going to do the story, that Robert Groden, the Kennedy assassination author, has won yet another legal victory in his fight against... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Senator Dan Patrick's Charter School Love Bill Leaves Public Schools Holding the Empty Bag

  published Feb 22, 2013

  Tale of two dailies today, I guess. Our own Dallas daily, the Morning News, takes a kind of hey-why-not approach to a bill introduced by Houston GOP state Senator Dan Patrick that would divert more mo... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Okon Metals Heads Downriver to Escape Widder Belo's Disapproving Eye

  published Feb 21, 2013

  It looks like Okon Metals, a fourth-generation-owned scrap recycling company, may have found safe haven after all. If nothing else, at least Okon's proposed move to a site even more isolated than its ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Judge Says John Wiley Price Can Fight for His Money, Throwing a Wrench in the FBI's Plans

  published Feb 20, 2013

  A new court order in the federal corruption probe into John Wiley Price tilts the case in the county commissioner's favor, maybe just a little, maybe quite a lot. We all recall that in 2011 the FBI ... More >>

• CDC Offers Weak Numbers on West Nile Spraying

  published February 21, 2013

  Wait. Take five. That's all I'm asking. As we approach mosquito season in Dallas, the conversation about aerial spraying for West Nile once... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Craig Watkins Thumbs Nose at a Court Order, Unveils New Theory of White People Law

  published Feb 19, 2013

  Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins started out with one question to answer. Now that he has defied a subpoena, he's got at least a couple more. Last week Watkins was ordered to appear in t... More >>

• Fire Mary Suhmr Not a Chance, Because the Big Money Likes Her.

  published Feb 18, 2013

  Over the weekend I have been chatting with people who were all counting on their fingers. Does City Manager Mary Suhm take a powder over this month's gas drilling revelationsr No. They were counting... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Mary Suhm Screwed Dallas, but Now City Hall Has to Let the Gas Drillers Frack Parkland

  published Feb 15, 2013

  If there is one thing I hate, it's talking about morality with people who agree with me. But this has been one of those weeks. I'm your basic anti-gas-and-oil-fracking-in-parks type of guy. Call me s... More >>

• What Dallas Can Learn from Detroit

  published Feb 14, 2013

  Every once in while I can't resist inflaming the tri-cornered hat don't-tread-on-me set out there by saying nice things about Detroit. Whenever I sing praises to my hometown of many yesteryears, I get... More >>

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  Things Got Ugly at an Event Touting Southern Dallas' Horse Park and Golf Course Last Night

  published Feb 13, 2013

  Last night the city held a shmooze event for people who live near a proposed exclusive private golf course and horse park in a poor part of Southern Dallas, but the shmooze blew up. A carefully choreo... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Southern Dallas' Uncounted Workers

  published February 14, 2013

  Those of us who were not born rich — and those who were born rich but cursed with a work ethic anyway — have a sort of... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Dallas County's Aerial Spraying for West Nile not as Deadly to Mosquitoes as First Claimed

  published Feb 12, 2013

  Don't scramble the county air force just yet. We need to do some serious reading and talking before the Dallas County does a repeat of last year's aerial spraying for West Nile disease. I have a copy... More >>

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  Mary Suhm's Secret Drilling Deal Proves That the City Manager System Doesn't Work

  published Feb 11, 2013

  Don't think about this: your city manager, the CEO of Dallas City Hall, signed a secret deal five years ago promising to help a gas company set up drilling rigs and processing plants in city parks. T... More >>