In addition to providing a forum for local issues, Khabar Lahariya provides information about regional and national policies that impact the poor, and exposes contentious issues such as domestic violence and the misuse of development funds to public scrutiny.
If only we had a forum for these issues within 50 miles of an open mind.
Admittedly, football is not unique among American sports in serving as a forum for larger issues.
But while federal elections provide a forum for such issues, local ones tend to become caught up in picayune concerns.
And was the "My Ding-a-ling" imbroglio really the right forum for these issues, as old as Plato and still vexed, to be debated?
I think for many years I provided a forum for discussing issues of concern to women scientists, and I helped develop a sense of community for women graduate students where they could benefit from each other's experiences.
The issues of island ownership are not unique to Gigha and consequently the island has been highlighted in an edition of the BBC series, Countryfile, which is the principal television forum for countryside issues in the United Kingdom.
Participants in one focus group spoke highly of monthly meetings at their health unit that provide a forum for discussing issues, asking questions, and sharing comments and suggestions.
They expressed a strong demand for a web portal to interact with both staff and students, to provide an active discussion forum for scientific issues including a statistical helpdesk function, access to scientific literature, information on courses, research funding, internships, links to PhD programmes and career opportunities.
The group had argued that the Legislature was the appropriate forum for the issue and said the courts were deliberately misconstruing the law to reach a politically correct result.
