The court soon realized it had gone too far by overturning federal laws aimed at improving workplace standards by labeling them a local issue, then overturning a local minimum wage law for interfering with contract rights.
But strategists said Democrats could counter the Republican offensive by labeling the mosque dispute as a local issue and saying Democrats remain focused on the economy.
Perhaps above all, it offers a useful lesson in the benefits of treating water as a local issue, best dealt with by local communities.
The violence appeared to be set off by a local election issue, rather than displeasure at the broader results of the national vote.
By focusing specifically on a pressing local issue, cities are becoming actively engaged in the development of tools and tech solutions that could potentially impact their communities.
It avoids artificial definition of the spatial limits of relevant population, without requiring the absurd assumption that all Earth's inhabitants are equally affected by what may be a very local issue).
However, by-elections to three parliamentary and 48 state assembly seats in June suggest that public support for the nuclear tests does not translate into many votes: the BJP made some modest overall gains, especially in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, but fared indifferently elsewhere.The by-elections were dominated by local issues.
A regional court handling the challenge of Tencent, a Chinese internet giant, by Qihoo, a local rival, issued a thoughtful and transparent ruling that could have come from a Western court.
In Upper Canada the basic constitutional problem was exacerbated by a number of local issues.
These crises were exacerbated within Egypt by local issues, including a spate of strikes, human rights concerns, and disagreement with the Nile River basin countries over the management of water resources.
