Food retailer Safeway similarly moved from Oakland city center to the same city as Chevron.
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The women were reportedly picked up by the limo in the city of Oakland and were being driven across the bridge to Foster City.
Until the late 19th century, the southern part of what is now the city of Oakland was called Brooklyn.
Further, it appears that the five teams Jacksonville, Detroit, Kansas City, Oakland and St.
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"San Francisco has given the Warriors a waterfront offer that they could not refuse, " said Fred Blackwell, Oakland's assistant city administrator.
Pilot projects on the Edmonton model have already been launched by school boards in Colorado Springs, Oakland and New York City.
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The campaign has garnered tremendous social buzz and earned media, giving the brand an immense marketing bang, all with relatively modest investment. (By the way, the two most honest cities in the latest tracking were Salt Lake City and Oakland.).
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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").
City officials in Oakland have been trying for over a decade to attract a viable development to the site, which is located along an estuary that runs the length of Oakland's southern border and out into the San Francisco Bay.
On the flipside, the Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres and Tampa Bay Rays have less than 50% of 2009 revenue locked up in player contracts through 2011 and therefore have lots of room to sign some expensive talent.
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Last week, in Oakland, voters unhappy with the city's old politicians elected to the California Assembly a new member with similarly peculiar credentials.
Oakland is a troubled, poor city, where almost half the population is black, a quarter is Latino and a hefty proportion are unemployed.
Off in the distance was the city and to the right Oakland Bay Bridge, that connects San Francisco to Oakland.
Detroit badly needs to pull into the city dollars from suburbs like Oakland County, one of the nation's richest counties.
For, despite all the city has to offer, Oakland's violent-crime rates are the highest in California and among the highest in the country.
Such generosity by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner , required by the league's rule that teams pay 34% of their net local revenue to help make poorer teams more competitive, is the reason why the Oakland Athletics, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals increased in value by more than 20%.
Meanwhile, Oakland Tribune columnist Daniel Borenstein notes that his city has levied what he calls a "hidden pension tax" on property owners for decades to pay off a municipal pension fund that went bust in 1976.
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We heard from people in Phoenix, New York City, Maine, Connecticut, Oakland, California, and Nevada, including Josh Ackerman, Jerry Kursin(ph), Hosea Tesery(ph), Brad Hayes, Anita DeVito(ph), Chris Brown, and Susie Nichol(ph), Maurice Williams(ph), Crissy Simpson(ph) and Joseph Mayo(ph).
Hundreds of city workers, including teachers, in Oakland, joined the call for a strike.
Oakland, for all its problems, is a city restless for civic activity.
Tebow could have a a similar effect in upcoming road games against divisional foes: Oakland Raiders, San Diego Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs which are the next three away games on the Denver schedule.
It has no stores in Chicago, Minneapolis, Miami or New York City, only one each in San Diego and Oakland.
The Golden Gate Bridge soars across the mouth of the bay, connecting the city to Marin County, while the Bay Bridge connects to Oakland in the east.
Covenant House has shelter facilities in Anchorage, Atlanta, Atlantic City, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles, Managua, Mexico City, Milpas Altas, Newark, New Orleans, New York, Oakland, Orlando, Philadelphia, St.
Oakland, California, native and former broadcast journalist Ricki Stevenson fulfilled a lifelong dream of moving to the City of Light, and in 1997 launched Black Paris Tours.
On Monday, police in Oakland, California, conducted a similar raid when they moved in to the Occupy encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza near City Hall and tore down tents.
This week's trades of Carson Palmer to the Arizona Cardinals and of Matt Flynn (pictured, far right) to the Oakland Raiders brought the total of projected starters acquired via trade to three this off-season, along with Kansas City's Alex Smith.
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