Distant relatives and town halls concerned about senior citizens at risk of neglect or loneliness can commission the local mail carrier to look after them by buying groceries, asking basic health check questions, or simply hanging out.
Or as one City Room commenter, Peter Haskett, put it Wednesday, "Most of the streets in Briarwood, Queens, must be as 'tertiary' as syphilis as far as City Hall is concerned, because nobody will touch them".
But over in City Hall Park, a rally concerning education threatened to render his comments inaudible.
In September 2006, Wilsonville opened a new $9.9 million, two-story brick and steel city hall after a controversy concerning its location led to unsuccessful attempts to recall several elected officials in the city, including the mayor.
Annie Hall is centrally concerned with this dangerous territory.
The Goshen Church of Christ Congregational, where a day-care center runs out of the parish hall, was so concerned about the issue that it hired Peter A. Valberg, a Harvard physicist, to give a talk to the church.
Wuthering Heights is less the story of wild romantic love as much as a tale of abuse, madness and unfettered rage, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is more concerned with the act that frees Helen, her slamming of the door against her drunken husband, than it is with her conventional end.
Hall was initially concerned that audiences would not like the characters; he only felt able to identify with them during cast rehearsals, which gave him fresh ideas on his approach to the visuals.
The New York Times has a front-screen story this morning about Bob Collier, a 62-year old American from rural Georgia who, according to the Times, was moved to speak out at a recent town hall meeting about his worries concerning health care reform.
The Paris town hall expressed concern: what about the architectural integrity of the Parisian landscape?
