[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Oakland Army Base (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Promises were broken for army base jobs

By Laura Anthony
KGO-TV 7 News
September 15, 2008


OAKLAND, CA -- When the government began closing down military bases 
more than a decade ago, $1 billion dropped from Bay Area payrolls. The 
number of military and civilian jobs lost at these bases adds up to more 
than 30,000, more than 20,000 in Alameda County alone, and many of the 
surrounding communities have been very slow to recover.

It seems, time stands still at the Oakland Army Base. Nine years after 
the base closed for good, there's little sign of the promises made, the 
jobs to be gained in Oakland or at three other ex-military installations 
in the East Bay.

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For the entire story, see
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/assignment_7&id=6393363

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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