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...without further ado, here’s what I discovered in Oakland...
...OAKLAND, Calif.—Driving up to the Bay Area was an interesting experience. For the first hour, I felt like I had driven into the world depicted at the opening of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby. It was pure desolation, a veritable wasteland. I half-expected the eyes of T.J. Eckleburg to pop out of nowhere. Then an hour further and I felt like I was on the set of North by Northwest, as crop planes soared down close over...
...little side story for my Boston readership: When I got to Oakland Alameda Coliseum—which I discovered is actually McAfee Coliseum (oops)—I got a little lost navigating the press area and stumbled across the weight room where I found Kevin Millar (now with the Jays) introducing a family to Nomar Garciaparra (now with...
...California, medical-marijuana sales are already taxed, and one community recently grabbed for a bigger slice of the pot pie. Residents in Oakland on July 21 overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure that would make the city the first in the country to establish a new tax rate for medical-marijuana businesses. The measure, which a preliminary count shows passed with 80% support, considerably hikes the tax Oakland marijuana dispensaries pay on sales, from $1.20 per $1,000 in receipts...
...really kind of rude to the other team. So if you’re kind of rude, go be a Dodger’s fan. If you want to be really cold and windy, go to San Francisco. Plus, we all know about San Francisco. And then Oakland, Oakland’s kind of a tough town and since they don’t really have a baseball stadium, they really need a baseball stadium over there. So you’re not going to really have fun and have a lot of good times over there. Good baseball team...