Education in America has traditionally been seen as a local concern.
Some 20 million Americans are now organized around issues of local concern.
There is an association for residents, dealing with issues of local concern.
In March 1980 the state began to react to local concern.
Maintaining the water level has been a local concern for decades.
National issues would drive out any attention to local concerns or personalities.
All of these projects have raised local concerns about possible health risks.
But the plan, which calls for a huge store, has sparked great local concern.
It would be difficult to find matters of more local concern than these.
The company said it had agreed to drop one site because of local concerns.