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

  Mary Suhm Signed a Secret Side Deal to Push for Drilling on Parkland as She Told Council It Would Be Banned

  published Feb 07, 2013

  Documents released yesterday evening by the city reveal that Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm signed a side deal with a gas-drilling company five years ago to help the company win drilling rights on city... More >>

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  Dallas Unite! Throw off the Chains of Redneck Legislators, Payday Lenders, Etc.

  published Feb 06, 2013

  Maybe Dallas has a shot at stepping out from under the redneck yoke of Austin after all. In today's news we see that a Dallas judge, Eric Moye, has tossed out a lawsuit by the usury industry in which... More >>

• The Trinity Toll Road Just Keeps Rolling on the River

  published February 7, 2013

  The Trinity toll road is undead. It walks in the night. Forget garlic. It is coming. It's a fundamentally crazy idea. But it lives. If... More >>

• Why Did Chris Kyle Call Himself an "American Sniper," and Why Were We Cool With Itr

  published Feb 05, 2013

  The killing Saturday of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle at a gun range near Fort Worth prompted a call to my office phone from a retired Dallas police officer. He was upset by use of the word "sniper" to ... More >>

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  The Nasher and Museum Tower Should Just Take This Fight to Court Where it Belongs

  published Feb 04, 2013

  Sometime, just as a study of American photo journalism in print media today, go to the web site of the Dallas Morning News and take a good gander at the pictures they have published recently of anybod... More >>

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  City's Online Utility Bill Payment System Goes in the Crapper. I Blame Me.

  published Feb 01, 2013

  This whole thing is my fault. I blame only myself, not so much because I really believe it's entirely my fault, but because I know trying to blame anybody else will not do me any good. I just need to ... More >>

• Is Money, Celebrity and Politics Distorting Cancer Researchr

  published Jan 31, 2013

  Wait a minute. We here in Dallas know all about people who have used cancer research to promote themselves. Nancy, Lance, Rick, for three. But when do we ask questions about the research itselfr The ... More >>

• The Corps of Engineers Wants to "Armor" the Trinity River, Despite the Fact That it's a River

  published Jan 30, 2013

  Democracy in action last night. Never a pretty picture. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is in charge of flood control in this country, held a meeting at City Hall to update the public on the... More >>

• RIP, John Hargrove, Whose Orr-Reed Wrecking Business Salvaged Lumber and People

  published Jan 29, 2013

  When I made a call yesterday about John Hargrove, owner of Orr-reed Wrecking who was beaten to death in a Dallas bar over the weekend, I told the person I called I was calling only for personal reason... More >>

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  We Now Know the Middle-Income Job Is Basically Extinct, But What Do We Do About Itr

  published Jan 28, 2013

  There's a big Associated Press story making the rounds now, based on work at MIT and elsewhere, all about the permanent loss of many high and better paid jobs like meter reader and travel agent, gone ... More >>

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  Hooray for Dallas' Big, Dumb Ideas Like Fancy Bridges. They Stir Up the Smart Kids.

  published Jan 25, 2013

  So, back to the new fake suspension bridge we're building at enormous cost over the Trinity River, and, in fact, let's go back and review the whole Trinity River project. In fact, let's go back and re... More >>

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  Calatrava "Bridge" No. 2: We're Spending an Extra $7 mil to put Lipstick on a Pig

  published Jan 24, 2013

  The Dallas City Council yesterday voted to spend some $7 million of your money to cover the latest cost overruns for the second Calatrava suspension bridge over the Trinity River. The city already ha... More >>

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  Ron Kirk Could Come Home and Teach Texas Dems how to Win, but Don't Bet On It

  published Jan 23, 2013

  What will Ron Kirk do when he returns to Dallas after leaving the Obama cabinet next monthr If I had to bet, I'd say he won't return to Dallas, which will be a shame. If he did come home, maybe he cou... More >>

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  Obama II: It's the End of the White People's World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

  published Jan 22, 2013

  Tons of talk on the interwebs yesterday about the inauguration and what it all meant (racism is undead, Obama won't have a waltz, presidents can't change the weather, other unexciting true facts). But... More >>

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  Of Lance, Scientologists and Other Liars, Or Why the Truth Hurts

  published Jan 18, 2013

  The weekend draws mercifully close, and I feel a need to revisit a couple themes touched on here earlier in the week. We started with Lance Armstrong on Monday. I predicted he would fake-confess and t... More >>

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  A Confession from Lance Armstrong Will Just Speed Cycling's Downhill Slide

  published Jan 17, 2013

  We assume Lance Armstrong will confess tonight to some part of a years-long juicing conspiracy while head of the U.S. Postal Service bicycle racing team, so we can anticipate at least a few more days ... More >>

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  The Atlantic Magazine Flunks the Truthfulness Test With Scientology Ad

  published Jan 16, 2013

  The Atlantic magazine has stumbled badly on that really hard multiple choice question at the end of the Journalism 101 final exam: "Lying to your readers is: 1) A good thing, or 2) A bad thing." One p... More >>

• Score One for Mike Miles

  published January 17, 2013

  Oh, I do not like nights like this. I just sat through the Dallas school board meeting where they finally got to the bottom of the bad audit on... More >>

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  If RFK Jr. is Skeptical of the Warren Report, He Should Help His Fellow Skeptics Fight Dallas

  published Jan 15, 2013

  To: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Dear Mr. Kennedy: You and your sister, Rory, appeared here in Dallas a few days ago as part of the run-up to this city's observance of the 50th anniversary of the murder o... More >>

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  Lance Armstrong Will Reveal His But to Oprah

  published Jan 14, 2013

  Let me tell you in advance what Lance Armstrong is going to say to Oprah today. And how do I knowr Well, obviously, I do not. But it's just as obvious to me that I do. Everybody knows by now that wor... More >>

• Kay Bailey Hutchison as Transportation Secretaryr First, Let's Look at Her Trinity Deal.

  published Jan 11, 2013

  Ahem. All that I offer is food for thought, food for thought. Something to think about. That's all. A blog published by The Hill, a Washington newspaper, has floated the name of former Texas Senator ... More >>

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  Business Lobbyists Offer Help with Fixing Deficit. Kiss Your Asses Goodbye, Old and Sick People

  published Jan 10, 2013

  This country is being hoodooed by the oldest magic show trick in the book -- misdirection. The fictional crisis of entitlement spending is just a new version of the stain on Monica Lewinsky's dress, t... More >>

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  After Harriet Deison's Death, Questions about Grief and Depression, Suicide and Privacy

  published Jan 09, 2013

  We are old obit writers at our house who scour the obituary pages by habit every morning, and, yes, we did notice the long obituary in The Dallas Morning News last week for Harriet Schoelllkopf Deison... More >>

• Closing the School-to-Prison Pipeline

  published January 10, 2013

  All right, wait, what are we talking about again? The new superintendent of schools and the people he hired and did he follow the right... More >>

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  Will the Trigger Happy Drive the Post-Newtown Gun Debater

  published Jan 08, 2013

  Sometimes it feels like we grab the gun issue by the tail instead of the head. It's always about ultimate constitutional rights and last-ditch defense measures. But the real face of the gun question i... More >>