Oakland has been granted an allocation of $8.2 million from the U.S. Federal Housing and Economic Recovery Act to rehabilitate foreclosed houses in the city, but it must submit specific proposals by December 1 on how to help residents at risk of foreclosures and on how to...
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"Boa::Eat You Up - YUM! OUT TODAY!!! 21 10 2008 Update: BoA comes out today!!! Be sure to grab it like its HOTTT! Thanks to BoA’s Jewelry Box for updates! 10.14.2008. That will be the anticipated release date of BoA’s 1st US...
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There are good and bad to both. With it illegal fewer people will choose to use it, simply because it is illegal. But because it is illegal there are tons of people of ill-repute making billions off of its sale...
created by tonybeme | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 2539 views | 0 recommendations | 6 comments
Maynard was one of the first black women to be hired by The New York Times. She worked on the Metro staff and later the Washington bureau, covering major stories, including Robert F. Kennedy's funeral,campus...
The hapless St. Louis Rams captured their first win of the 08 regular season under new Head Coach Jim Hasslet. The Rams, winless through the first five games of the regular season pulled the proverbial wool...
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Things are permanently lost in translation when there coming out of Raiderland. This Tuesday was no exception. A few well whipped member of the Raiders press corp witness an unmasked Darth Vader grab a young...
created by mr.zoltanblack | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 301 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Veteran Bay Area sports reporter Tim Kawakami received a rare peek "behind the Raiders curtain" Monday, when confronted by Raiders Official John Herrera following a press conference that shocked most of those...
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All’s not well in Raiderland Oakland’s performance Monday night against the hated Denver Broncos and cocksure Super Bowl winning coach Mike Shanahan was abysmal. It is true that no one game can represent...
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Here we go again folks, it looks like I moved from California just in time"SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck east of Oakland, California, at around 9 p.m. ET Friday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter was about...
I could think of a few generals he could replace. " Believe it or not, the Norwegian King's Guard has a penguin for a mascot and honorary colonel-in-chief. Fittingly, it's a king penguin. He resides at the...
created by World_Groove | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 331 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
"The End of White Flight For the First Time in Decades, Cities' Black Populations Lose Ground, Stirring Clashes Over Class, Culture and Even Ice Cream By CONOR DOUGHERTYJuly 19, 2008; Page A1 Decades of white flight transformed America's cities. That era is...
created by yoyo968 | 4 years ago 1096 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
"The A’s shipped Joe Blanton to the Philadelphia Phillies for three minor leaguers Thursday, a trade that was not as surprising as the one Beane made nine days earlier. That was when he traded Rich Harden to the...
This is a common scene these days in the San Francisco Bay area. Ladybug beetles are swarming by the millions in local parks, as seen in this shot taken yesterday in the Redwood Regional Park in the hills above...
created by SteelePop | 4 years ago | updated 3 years ago 5521 views | 31 recommendations | 18 comments
"Santa Cruz & Monterey County residential areas are going to be aerial sprayed with abiochemical as often as every 30 days starting August ? , 2008! San Francisco, Oakland, Marin, Albany, andmore residential areas are going to be aerial sprayed with a biochemical as...
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