Sentence examples for civic issue from inspiring English sources

Feffer chuckled away the "reverse psychology" theory before the series, explaining that restoring a home vibe to home games "has become a civic issue" in Washington.

It was not until the 1990's, and the intervention of Mr. Miller and his wife, Caralee, that Willson's contributions to the city became a civic issue.

When you talk about Atlanta's food deserts, you have to talk about the three themes entwined in every civic issue in this region: race, class and sprawl.

Within days of taking office, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg tackled a civic issue that he, like many New Yorkers, has not really had to confront for years: homeless people living on Manhattan streets.

"I am just like anybody else who sees a problem with a civic issue and sets out to fix it," he told me as we sat one afternoon in the living room of his home in the Westchester County suburb of Larchmont.

These models include; a status quo 'data over the wall' form of government data publishing, a form of 'code exchange', with government acting as an open data activist, open data as a civic issue tracker, and participatory open data.

Indeed, these are the same civic issues facing a host of anything-but-exotic American cities.

As the director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, a nonpartisan research institute based at Tufts University, he specializes in civic issues affecting young people.

The artists presented their works in progress -- pieces of theater, dance and music intended to induce dialogue about civic issues.

Eventually, they decided to launch a blog about social and civic issues in Africa's second-most-populous nation.

As with other African-American chambers, Ms. Douglas said, this group's primary focus is on commercial, financial and civic issues.