The decision to guarantee Martínez only three years remains a subject of civic debate, the pitching change that continues to be second-guessed.

At issue are hundreds of privately owned public spaces scattered throughout the city that have long been the subject of civic debate.

Painted over in 2002, it returned five years later after extended civic debate.

But a government plan for a complete nationwide ban on guns has generated an impassioned civic debate of a kind rarely seen here.

Such independent-minded analysis often deepens public understanding and sharpens civic debate.

It's a play that's supposed to catalyze civic debate.

Or will they be enriched by being part of a significant civic debate, however shrill?

Their efforts often brought new groups of voters to the polls and always invigorated the civic debate.

The civic debate should become more elevated and less prurient as weighty constitutional issues unfold on television.

Years-long civic debate of diverse proposals for the future of the building and site ensued.