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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Park Friends Group Wants To Be Development Czar Along the River

By Jim Schutze
May 11, 2020

This is a story about the dangers posed by spunky people. In these terrible times, this story should offer comic relief. But, uh … nah. Probably not too comic. The Trinity Park Conservancy, a very spunky private group charged with raising money for a fancy new city park on the...
Coronavirus Science Is Not an Election for God's Sake

By Jim Schutze
May 6, 2020

This is what drives me crazy about a lot of the public discourse on coronavirus. When did people get the idea that science is a democracy? For the last many weeks I have been writing about the coronavirus pandemic, and, because everything that goes up online these days leaks out...
We Will Know For Sure If Reopening Was the Right Move. Someday.

By Jim Schutze
May 4, 2020

Maybe you know exactly what’s going on and what’s going to happen next. Not me. I don’t know jack. But let’s put down a marker right here at the beginning of the Great Texas Reopening. There will be an answer. It will be math. This isn’t French Impressionism. At a...
Grim Calculus: Deaths for an Economy and Maybe Somebody's Reelection

By Jim Schutze
Apr 30, 2020

In the debate on opening up versus shutting down, a dark picture is emerging, with national ramifications but also with some nasty roots closer to home. A truly terrible political calculus may be afoot. The calculus would be this: that the nation will swallow the cost in human lives of...
When Colleyville Gives Us the Finger, What Should We Give Colleyville Back?

By Jim Schutze
Apr 29, 2020

Now for the really weird part, the reopenings. What does reopening even mean? Who says? Reopen what? How? Then what? Why does this feel like Russian roulette? Wait. Is life Russian roulette? I have been thinking a lot about Colleyville, the affluent suburban community north of Dallas that has defiantly...

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