About an equal number of protestors marched nearby in Oakland, Calif. as part of a daylong general strike called by Occupy Oakland.
But Gil Patterson, who succeeded him as Oakland's minor-league pitching coordinator in 2008, said Romanick often challenged the conventional wisdom on throwing programs.
In my role as Oakland County Chief Innovation Officer, I have worked alongside our County Executive, L. Brooks Patterson, to provide the vision, leadership, and executive sponsorship needed to drive innovation and real change in government technology, even in tough economic times.
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Though the urban winery trend blossomed in East Bay cities such as Oakland, Alameda and Emeryville, in the mid 1990s, the emergence of San Francisco wineries has happened mostly over the last decade, explained Bryan Kane, co-founder and winemaker at Winery SF on Treasure Island, which is connected to downtown San Francisco via the Bay Bridge.
The school is located in a mixed industrial-retail area near a Wal-Mart and a Toyota dealership and across a freeway from the O.co Coliseum, the home of the Oakland Raiders football team and A's baseball club that used to be known as the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.
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In contrast, a restaurant in Oakland could open in as little as four months, with only three permits, not including county permits, according to Oakland's Planning Department.
He uses the Entrust Group in Oakland, Calif. as custodian, but the metal is stored with a bullion dealer near his Tampa, Fla. home.
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At the other end of the spectrum are teams such as the Oakland Athletics and Baltimore Orioles, who both made the playoffs last year with high-power, high-strikeout attacks.
Blevins, the last reliever in the Oakland bullpen, was given as much time as he needed to warm up.
Those veteran closers making millions can thank Tony LaRussa, who ushered in the era of hyper-specialization as manager of the Oakland A's in 1988.
Montrose, CO is the main gateway, and has a surprising number of nonstop flights: from Chicago, Oakland, Atlanta, Dallas and as far as Newark.
At the ceremony to announce the award at the Rose Garden Arena, the smartly dressed guard spoke about his upbringing in Oakland and how it shaped him as a hard-working player.
Food retailer Safeway similarly moved from Oakland city center to the same city as Chevron.
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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is appointing me as a Public Administrator for Oakland County.
In more than a decade with the Oakland Athletics, he developed a reputation as a progressive thinker.
As a top administrator in Oakland puts it, we're not Vallejo yet, but we can see it from here.
He won 76% of his games as head coach of the Oakland Raiders, more than any other coach in the NFL during the Super Bowl era.
The Vikings and San Diego Chargers are presumed to be the favorites as they along with the Oakland Raiders are the only NFL teams left that need major stadium upgrades.
As you know over the weekend, 400 protesters were arrested in Oakland, and now today the National Park Service is expected to clear out protesters, potentially as we speak, from a site here in D.
Oakland has much less poverty than cities such as Hartford, Baltimore or Memphis, which also have high crime rates.
But public demonstrations tend to be far from predictable, as what we have seen in Oakland, and could explode into rioting and violent clashes between the police and protesters.
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By 1990, Larkin was featured on the national stage as the Cincinnati Reds swept the Oakland Athletics in the World Series and won their first world championship since 1976.
Oakland's liberal politicians, at least as left-wing as their colleagues in Berkeley and San Francisco, do not know what to do about the problem or even, according to Mr Starr, how to talk about it.
This can happen even if the employee's views are expressed outside of work (as happened to Allstate's Matt Barber, who was fired), and when no reference is made to sexual orientation (as happened to the City of Oakland's Good News Employee Association, which was forbidden to speak about "family values").
Despite missing time with injury, Cespedes has established himself as a talented outfielder and one of Oakland's few prime players, but has not been exceptional, hitting .275.
The little white dots you see on the ground as you are on final approach to Oakland Airport are megawatts of wind power generation in Altamont Pass.
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As a high school social worker in Oakland, California, Alvarez was frustrated by the number of boys of color he saw dropping out of school or falling into the criminal justice system.
He also served as California secretary of state and mayor of Oakland, and was elected attorney general in 2006.
And, while he is determined to play his part at Oakland Hills, he has backed Torrance to stay on as captain.
With her family in financial straits, Ms. Diller found work as a society columnist for a local newspaper, then as an ad-copy writer and as a writer at radio station KROW in Oakland.
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