Sentences with phrase «debates over citizens»

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But as the debate over well water and lake water escalates, it's become difficult to tell just how much support there is for the Citizens proposal — and how much of a role a Chicago public relations firm hired by Citizens is playing in the promotional effort.

According to poll results published this week by the Bush Foundation, 83 percent of Minnesotans said «the voice of average citizens has been lost» in the debate over the state budget.

When asked the role of the DEC in the public debate over the Plant Janeway said, «We are now in the point of the process where are soliciting input and comments from all citizens and concerned stakeholders and we've extended that comment period, and when the comment period closes we will take all those comments into consideration in making the decisions going forward.»

The legal debate over guns and the safety of New York's citizens continues at a fever pitch in the wake of the Herkimer horror, where four people were shot yesterday.

In the heart of long and fiery debates over Erie County's 2005 budget, some citizens and public officials have asked the Library to revisit the 1998 Cohen study - a study that the Library's Board and administration never ignored and never abandoned.

A day after his controversial call to arms set off intense debate over the role of armed citizens in maintaining

In the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the nation is engaged in a fierce debate over how to reduce firearms deaths without infringing on the rights of citizens to bear arms.

Medical research is only a small part of the larger debate over privacy, and the U.S. spying scandals uncovered last year have prompted citizens and politicians to take a tough stance.

But analysts say some of these goals will be a stretch to achieve, and they also have helped spark a domestic debate over how these goals will improve life for India's citizens.

We owe it to our next generation of students so that perhaps in another time, in another debate over another topic of importance to the American people, we can be proud of our citizens» behavior rather than be embarrassed!

«As common citizens without science expertise, the majority of us are forced to leave the debate over the actual causes of global warming to the scientists.

If we've learned anything from watching the Democratic and Republican conventions over the past few weeks, it's that energy policy is at the forefront, both in our policy debates and in the minds of our citizens.

Whilst many of us have anticipated these changes, it has been the debate over environmental care, closer connection between citizens and the land, and animal welfare that has raised awareness of the need to change both our methods of production and the means by which we process and distribute our food.

What tumbles out of the ensuing discussion is a gut - wrenching examination of the prejudices, prejudgments and personal psychological baggage these assembled citizens have brought to a life - or - death debate over the fate of the young Puerto Rican defendant.

The Wisconsin recall has re-ignited the debate over the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United.