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 September 29, 2011

  "Lowering the Bars"

• 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 May 5, 2011

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

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published May 27, 2010

  "Into the Wild"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published May 27, 2010

  "Into the Wild"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 23, 2010

  "Return to Sender"

• 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 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 April 23, 2009

  "Whitewashing Reality"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 26, 2009

  "The Fall Guy"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 24, 2009

  "Irony City"

• 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 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 21, 2008

  "Eat My Dirt"

• 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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2014 Stories by Jim Schutze

• Dallas Won. HUD Lost. Oops.

  published Nov 06, 2014

  City Hall announced late yesterday that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has caved on the 4-year-old Lockey/MacKenzie racial segregation complaint against Dallas officials, ... More >>

• On Fair Park Fund Audit, Were You Going to Mention the Missing Five Million Dollars? Ever?

  published Nov 05, 2014

  The city auditor's new bad report on a 27-year-old economic development fund in black South Dallas talks about technical problems with paperwork and mumbles on about the need for better "performance ... More >>

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  Dallas Volunteers Fight Ebola at Its Source by Trying to Rebuild West Africa

  published November 6, 2014

  We took a pretty bad hiding over Ebola here when Dallas became the first city in the United States to harbor the disease. How much of that we... More >>

• If The Texas Tribune Is the Future, the American Free Press Is Over

  published Nov 03, 2014

  New York Times media writer David Carr, who's almost always right about everything, has a piece in today's paper about sponsored (paid-for) journalism, in which he singles out The Texas Tribune in Au... More >>

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  The Showdown at Dade

  published October 30, 2014

  The Dallas ISD school board is supposed to meet soon to discuss an incident from a couple weeks back in which the superintendent ordered... More >>

• If Ebola House Is Funny, Why Not Breast Cancer House? C'mon! Lighten up!

  published Oct 28, 2014

  It has taken me a long while -- I was slow -- but I guess now I sort of get why some people think the "Ebola House" is funny. Sort of. Still working on it. Decorated for Halloween as an Ebola disast... More >>

• Thank you, Gov. Christie. Only You Could Make Dallas Look Good On Ebola.

  published Oct 27, 2014

  Just when we thought we could never show our faces again, thank goodness for Chris Christie. We owe him. Only the governor of New Jersey could make Dallas look good on Ebola. Look, we won't be brag... More >>

• Dallas Wants to Kill the Tietze Park Pool, Which Is Dumb and Unneccessary

  published Oct 24, 2014

  Sorry, everybody else, but this is one of those times I have to go all-in, full-tilt, do-or-die East Dallas on you. East Dallas! Listen to me! They're going to take Tietze Pool away from you! Tietze... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Trinity Trust Park Ideas Deeply Insult Dallas

  published Oct 22, 2014

  A little over two years ago The Battery Conservancy, a nonprofit support group for Battery Park at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers on the southern tip of Manhattan, decided that it neede... More >>

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  City and Boondocks Unite! You Have Nothing to Lose but Sprawl.

  published October 23, 2014

  Amy Silverstein's cover story here last week, "Road Runners," exploded one of my own favorite and time-honored paradigms; the city versus the... More >>

• We Did Good on Ebola. It's the Spin that Got Us.

  published Oct 20, 2014

  Hoping it's not bad luck to say this so soon, knocking on wood, rubbing my figurative rabbit's foot (my wife won't let me carry a real one), but I think this city and maybe even the nation deserve pr... More >>

• Miles/Nutall Thing Is About Turf and Who Runs DISD, Her or Him.

  published Oct 17, 2014

  Talk about mixed feelings this morning. On the one hand thanks to a youthful experience I would rather not recount here in colorful detail, I know exactly how Dallas school board member Bernadette Nu... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Media Still Misstating Science on Ebola Transmission

  published Oct 16, 2014

  News media continue to present a picture of Ebola transmission that is significantly inaccurate by omission. They assert much more certainty than the science justifies. The version repeated like a ma... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Seize the Moment, Dallas Schools, and Decide for Good What Trustees Can and Cannot Do

  published Oct 15, 2014

  Big teachable moment right now in the Dallas school system -- huge! -- and the school board and superintendent should rush to take advantage of it. I'm talking about the deal I reported here yesterda... More >>

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  Contradictions, Mistakes and Bullshit Are What Worry Us in Ebola Response

  published October 16, 2014

  News that Ebola virus had escaped Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital and invaded the city in the body of an infected nurse was the last straw.... More >>

• Mike Miles and Bernadette Nuttall Slap Leather

  published Oct 14, 2014

  Yesterday morning Dallas school district cops forcibly removed school board member Bernadette Nuttall from Billy Earl Dade middle school on Grand Avenue in South Dallas after Nuttall told them, "Go a... More >>

• CDC Boss Frieden, "That Is Not in the Cards."

  published Oct 13, 2014

  Thomas R. Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, speaking on 7/31/2014: "It is not a pote... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Does Clay Jenkins Really Have a Heart or Is He Scamming Us?

  published Oct 10, 2014

  Before I get on my high horse, I usually check back upstream to see what sort of feet of clay I may have myself on an issue. Great thing and terrible thing about the Internet. It's all still there. S... More >>

• Ebola Story Is All About Who, What, Where and Whether To Tell Anybody

  published Oct 09, 2014

  One great service Dallas could render to the rest of the country, should the dust ever settle on the local Ebola story, would be a thorough, no-holds-barred post mortem on information sharing. I am a... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  THE COG! It Has a New Idea for the Trinity Toll Road. Be Very Very Afraid!

  published Oct 08, 2014

  The weird shadow government nobody knows about but that runs everything, called "THE COG!," headquartered near Six Flags amusement park in Arlington, is cooking up a plan to ram a new highway down th... More >>

• Why Don't We Know Yet Exactly What Happened When Our Ebola Patient Zero Appeared?

  published Oct 07, 2014

  The commenters are already whetting their knives on Stephen Young's piece here a bit earlier reporting that Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price has raised the issue of racism in the treatmen... More >>

• New Lockey/MacKenzie Lawsuit Seeks to Reopen Can of Worms in HUD Case

  published Oct 06, 2014

  The Lockey/MacKenzie federal whistle-blower lawsuit accusing Dallas of deliberate racial segregation, dismissed last year because the judge said I had already blown the whistle, is back in court in ... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  How About We Very Calmly Count the Failures on Ebola So Far? Calm Enough For You?

  published Oct 03, 2014

  There has been much more talk in Dallas the last few days about the dangers of panic than about the dangers of Ebola. In the meantime if we are paying attention we must notice by now that our vaunted... More >>

• We're Safe from Ebola Because We're Rich. How Is That Working Out So Far?

  published Oct 02, 2014

  A major theme -- a very dangerous one -- in the reaction here to the arrival of Ebola is the notion that we are protected by our cultural and economic superiority from the kind of contagion now in Af... More >>

• Even the CDC Isn't Totally Sold on its Own Proclamations on How Ebola Is Transmitted

  published Oct 01, 2014

  Today in multiple stories, our only and always comforting local daily, The Dallas Morning News, reiterates the official public line of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control: that physical contact with ... More >>