Carol Reed

Now Southern Dallas Businessmen Are Lining Up Against Mike Miles. But Why?

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 reform and specifically for threatening the job of a particular high school principal popular in South ... More >>

Willis Johnson and JWP: Friends With Benefits, But Can the Feds Prove the Benefits Bogus?

​It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that string. Now everybody's talking about Willis Johnson. But nobody's got the connection. Last week Brett Shipp of Channel 8 reported on contracts between the county and Southern Dallas political consultant Willis Johnson, and over the weekend The Dal ... More >>

Rawlings, Kunkle Say They'd Ban Political Consultants From Lobbying City Hall

​If Mike Rawlings is serious, the political consultants running his campaign will have a hard time making a living with him in office. At last night's GLBT Chamber mayoral forum, candidates David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings agreed that political consultants who run campaigns and raise campaign money ... More >>

Mike Rawlings Clobbers Ron Natinsky and David Kunkle in Mayoral Fund-Raising Effort

Photos by Sam MertenWe're guessing this was Rawlings's reaction when he received bills from his consultants.​Former TracyLocke CEO Mike Rawlings easily outpaced the field of mayoral candidates by raising a whopping $1.03 million -- nearly three times the combined haul of Ron Natinksy and David ... More >>

Dallas' Next Mayor Will Face Tough Budget Choices. Too Bad The Candidates Won't Talk About Them.

Welcome To The Dull House

Mayor Dwaine Caraway's "Calling a New Play"

Photos by Sam MertenMayor Dwaine Caraway, his wife and council member Dave Neumann this morning at the City Hall Flag Room.​Just minutes before presiding over his first meeting as the city's newly minted mayor, Dwaine Caraway assured a group of around 150 folks gathered for a light breakfast i ... More >>

Thank You, Tom Leppert. We Really Mean It.

​Oh, my gosh, Tom Leppert has made Dwaine Caraway the new mayor -- thank you so much for that, Tom -- and I just realized I never finished the fictional saga I was writing for you, my cherished readers, about The Adventures of Arthur and Archie. So sorry about that. Other things just got in th ... More >>

The Billion-Dollar Question: If Mayor Tom Leppert's Really About to Ditch, Why?

Mayor Tom and Ron Natinsky​Gromer Jeffers is saying this afternoon it's "all but certain" Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert won't run for reelection in May, although he doesn't quite say how he's so certain. I certainly have been picking up a lot of ground clutter in the last week, mainly about various hop ... More >>

Why's Leppert So Pissed Off at the Corps of Engineers? Because He Can't Handle the Truth.

​O.K., I've been laughing up my sleeve over the mayor's whining remarks last week, complaining that certain unnamed "federal partners" aren't being very nice to him. Hanging around City hall last week for various dumb events, I was able to chat up a couple of people who are keeping quite close ta ... More >>

This Morning, Mayor Tom Met the Cast of The Good Guys, And They All Had a Good Schvitz

Photos by Patrick MichelsBradley Whitford, Colin Hanks and Mayor Tom Leppert on the steps of the Dallas Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Cathedral, Library & Museum this morning​I pulled into the parking lot of the Dallas Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Cathedral, Library & Museum at Harwood and ... More >>

Don Hill, After a Lengthy Trial, a Guilty Verdict and an 18-Year Sentence, Still Doesn't Get It. Wonder Why?

Top 10 Schutze Columns of '09

​I know what you're thinking: The year is almost over, and I need more Schutze! More Schutze you say? Me too, which is why I took a look back at his columns from '09 and picked my 10 faves for your reconsideration and, well, appreciation. For those who don't remember the drill from last yea ... More >>

If You Think Ethics Reform at City Hall Was All Mayor Tom's Idea, Pass That Pipe, Willya?

Patrick Michels​In an editorial today The Dallas Morning News gives all the credit for better ethics at City Hall to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert because, "In the end, Tom Leppert didn't blink." They must have sent a greenhorn over to cover the city council's straw vote on ethics reform last week. An ... More >>

Don and Sheila Hill, the Unfair Park Interview

Photos and cutlines by Danny FulgencioAn inclination for religious references did not save Don Hill from lawful judgment.A little more than 24 hours after a jury found Don and Sheila Hill guilty on a total of 12 counts in the City Hall corruption case, the two sat down with me for a lengthy intervie ... More >>

Burka: Mayor Tom Leppert Had a Sitdown with GOP Media Strategists About Senate Seat

Salvation ArmySen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and her would-be replacement? Maybe?​Tuesday morning, Texas Monthly's Paul Burka took note of Schutze's column from July, in which Jim got a no-nuthin' from the mayor and his peoples concerning his interest in running for Kay Bailey Hutchison's could-come-op ... More >>

Yet Again, Bill Fisher's on the Stand in Federal City Hall Corruption Trial -- And Former Mayor Laura Miller Gets a Shout-Out

Sam MertenFormer Dallas Mayor Laura Miller outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building and Courthouse, when she testified in the City Hall federal corruption trial a few weeks ago​Victor Vital, attorney for Sheila Farrington, began the morning's proceedings in the federal Dallas City Hall corrupti ... More >>

With Tetro, It's Family Biz

Finance Reports Confirm What You Already Knew: Harlan Crow and Ray Hunt Are Loaded

Sam MertenWhat recession? As Harlan Crow told us right after the losing the election and more than $5 million: "I'll get over it before I get home."The spending gap between the two convention center hotel campaigns predictably didn't mimic the narrow margin at the polls, as Harlan Crow's $5.2 milli ... More >>

Hunt Attributes Delayed Car Booting Ordinance to Budget and The Reeds; Deep Ellum Group Uses Petition to Lobby Council

Sean FitzgeraldThe Deep Ellum Community Association used a petition measuring more than 50 feet with more than 850 signatures to push the council to take the car booting issue more seriously.We're already breaking our promise, but because we're strangely obsessed with the city's struggle to get a ca ... More >>

Blowing Smoke|Red-Faced Profession|From the Inside Too

As Far As Some on the Council Are Concerned, We've Already Voted For the Convention Center Hotel

Demanding Answers as the Dallas Convention Center Hotel Moves Forward

As Mayor Tom Leppert pushes for a convention center hotel, critics demand more details and less tax money. At least, those who haven't been silenced do.

Be Ware: Mayor Tom Leppert's Trying to Get the Former City Manager on DART's Big Board

Leppert and Shaw Are Ethical People, Jim. Just Leave It Alone.

Geritol Jump-Shooters|Voodoo Economics|Ellumized|Miss Potty Mouth|Carol Reed's Boo-Boos|Goodbye, Greg

Who Doesn't Want to Be Sheriff?

Deaf Leppert, Sheriff Lupe Gets a New Foe and Breathing in Some Smelly Truth

The Lie is Now in Sessions

The Unholy Trinity: Kirk, Miller and Leppert

The Leppert Touch

Is the mayor-elect's appearance of human decency just a fluke?

Schutze Tickles Everything But the Ivories

Show Us the Money!

Jim's Been Violated! Hot Damn, It Must Be Close to Election Time.

Good Clean Smut

The Magic Touch

Want to know who to vote for? Whatever you do, don't ask Jim.

Carol Reed Earned Her Salary Tonight, No Doubt

Is it Too Late to Give Tom Leppert a Nickname?

Matt Pulle Still Doesn't Give Jennifer Gale a Chance. That's a Shame.

You Think Darrell Jordan's Having a CD Release Party at Good Records?

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

A Bonding Experience

With Friends Like These...

Unlikely allies form a coalition of the willing--for now

Pimp Daddy of Video

Matthew Buckingham's foxy photoplay brings a vibrant vision to video

How You Doin'?

Plus: Never Been Kissed; Wanted

The Thing That Ate Downtown

Downtown’s real estate barons are terrified that Perot-Hicks’ slick Victory project could wreak havoc on their own tax-funded plans to fix the city’s core

Highwaymen

San Antonio conservatives and a professional road warrior try to hijack a DART rail election

Buzz

Eight is enough

Hollywood mainstream in the slipstream: hits, misses, remakes, and blasts from the past

Chaos theory

A politically dysfunctional DISD board heads into a May election that's looking so scary, few voters or contributors want to go near it

Letters