The roof's worn paint had become so unsightly in the early 2000s that it was repainted in the summer of 2006 by the City of Irving.

Noted Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene penned a 2008 book, When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams, detailing his occasional appearances with Jan & Dean's touring band throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

The Detroit Tigers swept the Royals in the 1984 playoff season, and in the early 2000s, Detroit and Kansas City had a number of bench clearing brawls.

Cycling conditions on Lake Road, North Shore City, prior to the introduction of cycle lanes in the 2000s.

The phrase " silent majority " has also been used in the political campaigns of Ronald Reagan during the 1970s and 1980s, the Republican Revolution in the 1994 elections, and the victories of Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, both of whom were at the time Republicans, in the New York City Mayoral races of the 1990s and 2000s ( decade ).

During the late 1980s and 1990s, most of the new Fuzhou immigrants arriving into New York City were settling in Manhattan's Chinatown and later formed the first Fuzhou community in the city amongst the waves of Cantonese who had settled in Chinatown over decades ; but by the 2000s, the Fuzhou population growth had slowed within Manhattan's Chinatown and began to accelerate in Brooklyn's Chinatown instead.

In the 2000s, development in Salton City began to rise as a result of the escalating California housing market.

In the early 2000s, excessive levels of arsenic, boron, lead, and manganese were found in wells in the nearby town of Pines, and pipelines delivering Lake Michigan water treated by Michigan City were extended into Beverly Shores.

She lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s ; after time in New York City and Atlanta, Georgia she settled in Wilmington, North Carolina in the late 2000s.

In the late 2000s, the National Park Service provided a grant to the City of Oswego to replace the concrete deck surrounding the pool, as well as the protective chain link fence.

In the late 2000s, Union City, West New York, Weehawken and North Bergen came to be dubbed collectively as " NoHu ", a North Hudson haven for local performing and fine artists, many of whom are immigrants from Latin America and other countries, in part due to lower housing costs compared to those in nearby art havens such as Hoboken, Jersey City and Manhattan.

Though Native Americans comprise less than 1 % of the city ’ s population, they doubled in the 2000s, and combined with Union City ’ s Native American ’ s comprise 38 % of the county ’ s Native American population.

In the late 2000s, West New York, Weehawken, Union City and North Bergen came to be dubbed collectively as " NoHu ", a North Hudson haven for local performing and fine artists, many of whom are immigrants from Latin America and other countries, in part due to lower housing costs compared to those in nearby art havens such as Hoboken, Jersey City and Manhattan.

Some of the centers that were built in the 1990s and early 2000s include Dickson City Crossings, Dickson City Commons, Park Center and Commerce Plaza.

In the early 2000s, Lenoir City Continued to grow economically.

The group found stability during the 2000s with bassist Oteil Burbridge, Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, ( the nephew of their drummer ), serving as its guitarists, and became renowned for their month-long string of shows in New York City each spring.

In the 2000s, rising real estate costs in Galveston forced many families to move to other areas, including League City.

By the 2000s, Route 73 was extended south along with County Route 561 Spur from the Atlantic City Expressway to U. S. Route 322.

In the early 2000s, Downtown St. Catharines had an unusually high commercial vacancy rate of 10 %, causing The Globe and Mail in early 2005 to call St. Catharines the Garbage City.

( In addition, at the time of the name change to Citicorp, National City of Ohio was mostly a Cleveland-area bank and had not gone on its acquisition spree that it would later go on in the 1990s and 2000s.

After early new wave bands of the early eighties like Dangerous Rhythm and Kenny and the Electrics incorporated Ska into their post-punk sound, a more punk influenced brand of Ska started being produced in Mexico City in the late eighties, and the genre enjoyed its highest popularity during the early 2000s, even though it is still very popular today.

The city's Central Business District experienced a major resurgence in the 2000s, aided by a large increase in inner-city apartment living, the opening of new public spaces such as Federation Square and the new Southern Cross railway station, a determined marketing campaign by Lord Mayor John So's City Council and continuing development of the Southbank and Docklands precincts.

The new university inherited numerous small campuses, and during the late 1990s and 2000s embarked on large building projects ( primarily at Garthdee ) to consolidate teaching at its City Centre and Garthdee campuses, assisted by a large purchase of land from Aberdeen City Council in the mid-1990s.

A deer was included in the coat of arms of Rayleigh Urban District Council, and in the early 2000s, a new pub was named the " Roebuck ".

The media quoted some of Hancock's former Council of Europe's liberal group colleagues as saying that in the 2000s Hancock would usually come to their regular private gatherings alongside a series of young Russian and Ukrainian women-in spite of protests by some of those ; Hancock's former colleagues said they had witnessed his alleged assistants using the computers of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, the liberal group secretariat, which were supposed to be protected by a password ; apparently his ' assistants ' knew the password.

In the mid 2000s a tramway was proposed for the Hoppers Crossing-Werribee area to replace bus services, but the idea was not seen as feasible by the Wyndham City Council and Victorian State Government.

At the same time, the location on one of the major throughfares into and out of the city also led to increasing bottleneck issues, with some claiming during the middle of the 2000s that Council was neglecting the area ( though projects like the Central Connector are now ( 2007 ) aiming to alleviate this ).

He was named " Fighter of the Decade " for the 2000s ( decade ) by the Boxing Writers Association of America ( BWAA ), World Boxing Council ( WBC ) and World Boxing Organization ( WBO ).

In the early 2000s ASBOs had been issued in the Little London area to counter drug dealing and anti-social behaviour The leader of the Labour Party Group on Leeds Council thought that these orders had been achieving a reduction in crime in the area.

Also during the early 2000s, McGonigal served as Chairman of the Canadian Forces Liaison Council in Manitoba, which regularly lobbies public bodies and private businesses to grant time off to military reservists for training purposes.

* The Bristolian ( newsletter ), a left-leaning newssheet published in the early 2000s often critical of Bristol City Council

Marrickville Council upgraded the shopping strip in the early 2000s, enhancing the look and character of the area.

During the early 2000s, the British Youth Council and other groups successfully campaigned to lower age of candidacy requirements in the United Kingdom.

Oakley Manor, now private housing, was one of the locations of Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council from the 1970s to the early 2000s, before the council moved to a purpose-built Guildhall in Frankwell.

In the 2000s the owners closed the pub and applied to Cherwell District Council for planning permission to redevelop the site for housing.

Following the first large layoffs in the mid 1970s, the town of Queenstown lost its dominance on the west coast by the mid 1990s, and being mainly a company town many services closed by the 2000s, and the separate west Tasmanian local government authorities were amalgamated into the West Coast Council.

The 2000s ( decade ) saw a steady pace of growth and budget surpluses, but shaky inflation.

The 2000s ( decade ) saw a steady pace of growth and budget surpluses, but shaky inflation.

A similar flux was seen among the operators of cable systems: franchises were granted to a host of different companies, but a process of consolidation saw the growth of large multiple system operators, until by the early 2000s, virtually the whole industry was in the hands of two companies, NTL and Telewest.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

The start of the 2000s saw a quiet period for the genre.

The early 2000s saw the creation of fledgling interim federal administrations.

As for employment, a longtime weakness of the Spanish economy, after having completed large improvements over the second half of the 1990s and during the 2000s ( decade ), which put a few regions on the brink of full employment, Spain suffered a severe setback from October 2008, when it saw its unemployment rate surging to 1996 levels.

During the late 1990s and early 2000s, Internet users saw:

Hip hop music also saw a decline in the mainstream during the late 2000s because of electronic music's rising popularity.

American television in the 2000s saw the sharp increase in popularity of reality television, with numerous competition shows such as American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Survivor and The Apprentice attracting large audiences, as well as documentary or narrative style shows such as Big Brother, The Hills, The Real Housewives, Cheaters, among many others.

Although there were less in this decade than there were in the 1990s, the 2000s still saw many popular and notable sitcoms, including Will and Grace, Malcolm in the Middle, The King of Queens, Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and 30 Rock, among many others.

The 2000s saw a decrease in the popularity of radio as more listeners starting using MP3 players in their cars to customize driving music.

The 2000s saw a huge revival of 1980s fashion trends such as off the shoulder tops and neon colors came back in style.

Still, 2000s saw a rise of several independent TV networks like REN ( its coverage increased vastly allowing it to become federal channel ), Petersburg — Channel Five ( overall the same ), the relaunched 2 × 2 and others.

Between the 1990s and 2000s an increase in the use of dedicated hardware saw the advent of self-contained server appliances.

The 2000s saw continued rapid growth as the Hanford site hired hundreds of workers to help with the cleanup effort.

The 1990s and first decade of the 2000s saw another generation of jug band revival, which might be termed post-modern jug band movement.

However these same financial institutions in the 2000s saw black communities as fertile ground for subprime mortgages.

Redevelopment initiatives saw Berlin turn into one of the largest construction sites in the world through the 1990s and early 2000s.

Contemporary Chinese art also saw record sales throughout the 2000s.

The 2000s saw supervised techniques reach a plateau in accuracy, and so attention has shifted to coarser-grained senses, domain adaptation, semi-supervised and unsupervised corpus-based systems, combinations of different methods, and the return of knowledge-based systems via graph-based methods.

By the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the success of Christian-inspired acts like Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Decyfer Down, Underoath, Kutless, Disciple and Relient K saw a shift toward mainstream exposure in the Christian rock scene.

The second half of the 2000s saw Harvard Law School's most dramatic academic changes since the implementation of the Langdell curriculum.

The 1990s and 2000s saw a resurgence in Diamond's popularity.