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Jim Schutze

Jim Schutze has been the city columnist for the Dallas Observer since 1998. He has been a recipient of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ national award for best commentary and Lincoln University’s national Unity Award for writing on civil rights and racial issues. In 2011 he was admitted to the Texas Institute of Letters.

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City Council Is Erasing Names of People Who Gave Campaign Money

City Council Is Erasing Names of People Who Gave Campaign Money

By Jim SchutzeAugust 25, 2017

Want a pretty good indication where things stand at Dallas City Hall? A majority of the members of the Dallas City Council have decided the city needs to stop keeping a record of where the council gets its campaign money. Gee. What could they have in mind? I stumbled into…

Dallas Politics Less About Nice Versus Mean, More About People Versus Money

Dallas Politics Less About Nice Versus Mean, More About People Versus Money

By Jim SchutzeAugust 23, 2017

The Dallas Morning News ran a piece earlier in the week about a bad-blood feud between Dallas City Council member Philip Kingston and Bobby Abtahi, president of the Park and Recreation Board. The story made it sound like a nice guy versus mean guy thing. Make no mistake. At least…

In the Coming Confederate Protests, Remember the Lessons of 2016’s Shot Cops

In the Coming Confederate Protests, Remember the Lessons of 2016’s Shot Cops

By Jim SchutzeAugust 23, 2017

This part is easy for any of us to get. You have a loved one, partner, spouse, kid, weird neighbor — somebody whom you love and count on to be a regular part of your life. You sit down to the dinner table, and that chair is empty because, as…

The Worst Enemies Poor Black Kids Have Are Black Dallas School Board Members

The Worst Enemies Poor Black Kids Have Are Black Dallas School Board Members

By Jim SchutzeAugust 22, 2017

How times have changed.The worst threat posed to poor minority kids in Dallas once came from a callous white leadership. Now poor and minority kids get shafted by a callous black Southern Dallas leadership that cares more about preserving its good-old-boy political patronage system. You may not agree with me…

The Trinity Toll Project Is Dead, but Dallas Has Been Down That Road Before

The Trinity Toll Project Is Dead, but Dallas Has Been Down That Road Before

By Jim SchutzeAugust 22, 2017

Three things to say about the death of the Trinity toll road project, authorized by city voters in 1998, killed by the Dallas City Council three weeks ago — Thing 1, Thing 2 and the Big Thing. The first thing, you will find obvious, the second less so. The Big…

When the Nazis March, We  Must Confront Them With Moral Significance

When the Nazis March, We Must Confront Them With Moral Significance

By Jim SchutzeAugust 21, 2017

The Confederate statues debate is coming at us so fast that nobody in Dallas should feel embarrassed about having to change footing, alter or even flip a previous position. I know I’m not. Did what I said about it a month ago even make sense back then? I wrote that…

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Mariana Griggs Reflects on Change, Courage and Living in Oak Cliff

Mariana Griggs Reflects on Change, Courage and Living in Oak Cliff

By Jim SchutzeAugust 10, 2017

The fun thing about being a reporter, the payoff, is getting to talk to interesting people. So that’s what I have been doing lately — calling people and getting them to talk to me without a specific agenda. Mariana Griggs, a 40-year-old mother of two young children, is a longtime…

Parks to Play In, Kick a Ball, Stuff Like That, Instead of Parks to Drive By and Look At

Parks to Play In, Kick a Ball, Stuff Like That, Instead of Parks to Drive By and Look At

By Jim SchutzeAugust 9, 2017

The fun thing about being a reporter, the payoff, is getting to talk to interesting people. Often I hang up after an interview and think, “I wish I could call that person back some day and just get him or her to ramble on about whatever. I bet it would…

Trump’s Affirmative Action Probe Won’t Find What Social Conservatives Expect

Trump’s Affirmative Action Probe Won’t Find What Social Conservatives Expect

By Jim SchutzeAugust 8, 2017

Liberals, friends of affirmative action, champions of diversity, all of you, my people — please, let’s catch our breath. Can we all quit the knee-jerk belly-aching over the Trump Justice Department’s interest in revisiting higher education admissions schemes for five minutes? Take it from Texas. This is not going to…

Meet Pearlie Mae Brown, an Unwilling Pawn in the Battle Over Affordable Housing and Gentrification

Meet Pearlie Mae Brown, an Unwilling Pawn in the Battle Over Affordable Housing and Gentrification

By Jim SchutzeAugust 8, 2017

Pearlie Mae Brown, 80, still doesn’t have her house fixed. An engaging smile breaks across her face, then disappears, subsumed by worry. Rocking on the front porch of her small beige cottage on Crossman Avenue in West Dallas, she seems too tiny, too delicate to be the fulcrum in a…

ESPN Will Do 1988 Carter High Cowboys Story Aug. 24, But Will It Do It Right?

ESPN Will Do 1988 Carter High Cowboys Story Aug. 24, But Will It Do It Right?

By Jim SchutzeAugust 7, 2017

When the ESPN report on the 1988 Dallas Carter High School tragedy airs, I, for one, will be pinned to the screen. It’s a story that has haunted me since it happened, in part because it’s a story most mainstream media outlets have had a hard time telling. The program…

Their Trinity Toll Road was a Package of Lies. Now We Trust Them on the Park?

Their Trinity Toll Road was a Package of Lies. Now We Trust Them on the Park?

By Jim SchutzeAugust 4, 2017

The argument against leaving all those gaudy Confederate memorials in their places of honor in the city is that they amount to a corrupted version of history written by the losers. I could make the same argument about this private outfit that the mayor wants to create to rule a…

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New Report Tells Sordid Past of Fair Park, State Fair of Texas — but Offers Hope

New Report Tells Sordid Past of Fair Park, State Fair of Texas — but Offers Hope

By Jim SchutzeAugust 3, 2017

There’s a happy ending. But we don’t start out there. First we have to get through an explicit and disturbing account of Dallas’ racial past and present, published this week as part of an extraordinary document (copy below) calling for radical change in the way the city views Fair Park…

Kill Trinity Toll Road But Don’t Vote on Park, Council Urged

Kill Trinity Toll Road But Don’t Vote on Park, Council Urged

By Jim SchutzeAugust 1, 2017

Two upcoming City Council votes, both technical and arcane on the surface, will go to the heart of the city. The moment draws nigh. With two simple votes Aug. 9, the Dallas City Council may leap across an immense chasm in time and usher in a new era. Or not…

Scathing HUD Report Illustrates the Staggering Hypocrisy of Dallas City Staff

Scathing HUD Report Illustrates the Staggering Hypocrisy of Dallas City Staff

By Jim SchutzeJuly 31, 2017

In multiple court hearings last May, Assistant City Attorney Melissa Miles complained that the city just couldn’t quite trust West Dallas landlord Khraish Khraish, who was selling many of his rental houses to his tenants. The city didn’t know if the deeds were kosher. The city was afraid he might…

Think of the Dallas School District as a Tortoise and Try Getting it to Come to You

Think of the Dallas School District as a Tortoise and Try Getting it to Come to You

By Jim SchutzeJuly 28, 2017

If I utter one single encouraging word about charter schools, I get this instantaneous backlash from people, many of them friends, insisting that charter schools are part of an elitist plot to undermine and one day do away with public school education and, by the way, I am an idiot…

Sweet Little Friends of Trinity Park Group May Be Able  to Build Toll Roads. Scary.

Sweet Little Friends of Trinity Park Group May Be Able to Build Toll Roads. Scary.

By Jim SchutzeJuly 27, 2017

Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings wants the City Council to hurry up — hurry up! — and sign a pile of documents creating some kind of a private thing to control the new park we want to build on the Trinity River downtown. Former City Council member Angela Hunt has her…

Dallas 2017 Bond Program Reminiscent of Old Used-Car Lots on Ross Avenue

Dallas 2017 Bond Program Reminiscent of Old Used-Car Lots on Ross Avenue

By Jim SchutzeJuly 26, 2017

Sometimes we have to go back to the old-fashioned used-car lots that used to line Ross Avenue if we want to know how to handle things. You don’t sign a check to buy a car if the guy won’t let you drive it around the block first. Walk away. You…

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The Bathroom Bill Is Evil, But Do Parents Not Have a Right to Fear the Culture?

The Bathroom Bill Is Evil, But Do Parents Not Have a Right to Fear the Culture?

By Jim SchutzeJuly 25, 2017

Yesterday. I am staring at a Dallas Morning News online story telling me that the Texas Association of Business would start running ads on Texas radio stations today warning that, if the special session of the Texas Legislature passes a bathroom bill, it could cost Texas the NFL draft. I…

Dallas Is at the Tipping Point; All We Need To Do Is Give it One Good Kick

Dallas Is at the Tipping Point; All We Need To Do Is Give it One Good Kick

By Jim SchutzeJuly 24, 2017

Forget all the small-bore stuff like the Trinity toll road, Fair Park and so on. It’s more and more clear that we are at a major crossroads in the city, a place calling for real regime change. Total. In what we in the print business call a full-page “bleed” —…

Say Whatever About New Police Chief, but Be Careful What You Say About Detroit

Say Whatever About New Police Chief, but Be Careful What You Say About Detroit

By Jim SchutzeJuly 21, 2017

Hey. Be careful what you say about Detroit. I don’t know anything about this new Dallas police chief coming down here — U. Renee Hall, a deputy chief in the Detroit Police Department — but I do know a little bit about her hometown. Judging by some of the comments…

Let Lee Statue Stand, Along With All the Other Weird Confederaphernalia

Let Lee Statue Stand, Along With All the Other Weird Confederaphernalia

By Jim SchutzeJuly 20, 2017

So let me get this right. Fifty years from now, some young doofus reporter from Detroit moves here, looks around town and thinks, “Oh, just like Indianapolis.” He not only does not see that this city’s economy was created by slave labor before the Civil War, but he also doesn’t…

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