What folly, he told civic groups in church halls and school basements, to mistreat these men who provided reliable, often heroic, support to communities that were otherwise ill served.
On the third day of his campaign, he told civic leaders in St . Louisthat young people had "honest doubts" about the fairness of the system through which his listeners had profited and encouraged his audience to take the concerns of youth seriously.
Mr. Newmark, founder and chief executive of a popular community service Web site in San Francisco, www.craigslist.com, is witty (asked the contents of his refrigerator, he says, "Don't ask, don't tell"), civic-minded (his Web site is partly nonprofit) and utterly available ("I'm open to all possibilities").
On Tuesday, he told the Civic Association that the project was "being shoved down your throats" and that he would help find ways to stop it.
The story of Rhind and other Closter sculptors is told in "Civic Pride: A Sculptural History of Closter," an exhibition at the town's Abram Belskie Museum of Art.
It's no greater than "a pinch of salt and pepper," Edward Putzier, the health physics manager for Dow Chemical, which used to operate Rocky Flats, told a civic group in 1971.
McConnell told a civic group in Kentucky on Thursday that the chances of the GOP retaining control of the Senate were "very dicey," the Associated Press reported.
His philosophy, he told the civics class, is that the government should keep its hands to itself unless "government action is proved to be absolutely necessary".
"It would be easier to tell the civic groups in Garden City that we're trying space travel for the whole village to Mars," Mr. Donley said, "and it would probably be more accepted".
So far as I can tell, both civic integration policies and general citizenship policies are as rooted in the idea of permanent settlement as multiculturalism policies.
We must celebrate all that has been achieved this year but we must also be sure to continue to tell our civic and educational decision-makers about the importance of the arts in our lives.
