Subject: Ron Kirk

• At Tower, Everything Must Go!

  November 27, 2006

• How about "Captain"?

  March 7, 2006

• Angela Hunt to Laura Miller and Her Thugs: Back That Shit Up, Pronto.

  May 10, 2007

• Ron Kirk is Not Cheap

  August 22, 2007

• Kirk Beams to Austin for Obama

  December 19, 2007

• Ron Kirk Tells CBS News He Suffers From "Bush/Clinton Fatigue."

  February 29, 2008

• Bad planning

  Commission chairman's departure leaves panel in weaker hands

  December 21, 1995

• Ron Kirk Spent His Weekend in North Carolina on Behalf of Obama

  October 27, 2008

• Not Even Jim Schutze Can Ruin Election Day for Ron Kirk

  November 4, 2008

• Jim Did Not Ruin Ron Kirk's Night

  November 5, 2008

• Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk on "Good Friend" Barack Obama's Election: "For Once, The Good Guys Won."

  November 6, 2008

• Who Doesn't Have Something at Arts Magnet With Their Name On It?

  During today's closed-door meeting of the Dallas Independent School District board, the trustees will tell superintendent Michael Hinojosa whether or not they, ya know, trust the dude. As in: The board will "deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee; including evaluation of the performance of the Superintendent of Schools." Ron "No Confidence" Price sneak-peeks his evaluation: As he tells KTVT-Channel 11, "

  December 11, 2008

• Ron Kirk Still Mum on Possible Place in Barack Obama's White House

  This morning, a Friend of Unfair Park directed our attention to The New York Times' page featuring Barack Obama's "New Team" -- those folks who've either been appointed to the new administration or who're being rumored for the short list of maybe-so's. And nowhere on the page does former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk's name appear -- which doesn't mean anything, sure. Because after Friday's revelation concerning Kirk's being in the running for secretary of something, there's his name on the Associated P

  December 15, 2008

• Merry Christmas, Ron Kirk! You're the New U.S. Trade Representative!

  See, told you: No way former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk would be named secretary of anything by President-Elect Barack Obama -- all that lobbying, yech. (Or not.) Nope, ever since Monday it's looked more and more likely that First Buddy Kirk would be tapped for something a little less high-profile: U.S. trade representative. And it looked even better following yesterday's news that Obama's first choice, California Democrat Rep. Xavier Becerra, was backing out of the gig.Well, if you believe Reuters,

  December 18, 2008

• The Kirk connection

  May 18, 1995

• Blood sport

  August 10, 1995

• Big D upside down

  November 23, 1995

• Buzz

  December 21, 1995

• Private dealing

  January 11, 1996

• Leave it to Keever

  June 27, 1996

• Events for the week

  August 8, 1996

• Tough choices

  October 10, 1996

• Letters

  October 24, 1996

• Letters

  October 31, 1996

• Buzz

  February 6, 1997

• Buzz

  March 13, 1997

• Ron Kirk's Doing Just Fine, Thanks

  The Senate Committee on Finance doesn't have Ron Kirk's confirmation hearing penciled in on the schedule; so, for now, Bush appointee Peter F. Allgeier is the acting U.S. Trade Representative, the position to which then-President-elect Barack Obama appointed Kirk last month. But the former Dallas mayor took at least one baby step toward the position today by releasing his financial disclosure forms, which the Associated Press has so helpfully sifted through. Some highlights?Kirk made more than $

  January 27, 2009

• Buzz

  May 15, 1997

• Buzz

  September 18, 1997

• Parting shots

  December 25, 1997

• Mr. Mellow

  June 18, 1998

• Look back in confusion

  January 7, 1999

• Buzz

  April 1, 1999

• Yes, Your Honoraria: Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk Has a Small Tax Matter to Tend To

  Flickr photo: Obama__Dallas (Adam Jefferson)A Friend of Unfair Park sends along this just-posted piece from Politico detailing Ron Kirk's taxing issue before the Senate Finance Committee, which just today announced it was pushing back his confirmation hearing as U.S. trade ambassador till next Monday. According to a missive sent to journalists by Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Finance Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the former Dallas mayor owes $9,975 because of "honoraria tha

  March 2, 2009

• Ron Kirk's About to Trade Up

  'Bout 20 minutes from now, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk will go before the Senate Committee on Finance for his confirmation hearing as U.S. trade ambassador -- finally, right? We're having a watch party at Unfair Park HQ: Schutze brought the churros; Merten, the Moosehead. And I brought the Maker's Mark and a funnel. The show starts at 4 p.m. on C-SPAN's Web site, for those stuck at the office. Till then, a Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to this post on David Rothkopf's blog for For

  March 9, 2009

• Chinatown

  October 18, 2001

• The Real Ron Kirk

  April 4, 2002

• Odd Ends

  November 7, 2002

• Ambassador Kirk Is ... So ... So ... So Outraged Over Corps' Trinity Levee Report. Great.

  I'm already getting calls from my Republican friends (I have some! Swear!) who have seen the Todd Gillman story that just went up on The Dallas Morning News's site. In it, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk tells Gillman he's really pissed that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bringing up all this dumb levee safety stuff. He's especially upset that dumb old flood safety considerations might slow down work on the first Santiago Calatrava suspension bridge on the Trinity River:"I just find it remarka

  April 3, 2009

• Dallas' Political Designing Woman

  When Dallas' political elite need a win, Carol Reed cheers them on and calls the plays

  December 13, 2007

• Sticker Shock

  Our bill finally comes in for the Kirk/Ware era

  October 23, 2003

• Ron Kirk's Crying Game

  When he said it was time to end the blame game, he meant that he had won

  March 14, 2002

• Selling Ron

  A pro-business black Democrat who appeals to white voters, Ron Kirk is the sport utility vehicle of Senate candidates. But will voters buy him?

  March 7, 2002

• Crocodile Tears

  City Hall is sorry it can't help the White Rock water main victims... or anybody else, for that matter

  March 8, 2001

• Outta Here

  Cadillac Heights residents don't want levees, they want out

  September 21, 2000

• Buzz

  Isn't it ironic; The poop scoop

  July 6, 2000

• So Far, Ron Kirk is "Pleasantly Surprising"

  To keep this brief, here's the takeaway from this morning's New York Times profile of former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who's now "the unlikely new U.S. trade representative," as the paper puts it. The gist of the story is this: Everybody likes Ron Kirk. Everybody. So far. Because, well, they always have. Which is how he settled "a long-standing dispute over exports of American beef from hormone-treated cows to Europe" within the first two weeks of being sworn in. As for Kirk, well, far as he's conc

  May 29, 2009

• Charitable Turkeys

  June 18, 2009

• After President Obama's Speech, Ron Kirk Begs Students To Be Cool and Stay in School

  Photos by Patrick MichelsRon Kirk answers students' questions at Booker T. Washington High School after President Obama's speech this morning.​While President Obama's speech to students met a lukewarm reception at some schools around Dallas-Fort Worth, former Dallas mayor and current U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk made sure the speech played to a full house this morning at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.At a podium in Booker T. Washington's Montgomery A

  September 8, 2009

• Steer Clear of the Crescent on Monday

  Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk at the U.S.-Africa Business Summit in D.C. earlier this month​That is, unless you have business with former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who, in his position as U.S. Trade Representative, will be holed up at the hotel Monday talking North American Free Trade Agreement. But, as Kirk cautioned in April, don't count on anyone "reopening" NAFTA any time soon. So, then, what's on the agenda? Let's ask the press release:United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk will host two

  October 16, 2009