It depends on how relevant the issue is. One of the most relevant public discussions that I can remember was in the French district and they were having problems with their water supply. It was also tied in to problems of local government which called for a collective solution. They ended up deciding to work themselves to collectively reconstruct their water supply. You see the same thing at Kelly Fork.
Water is a pretty unifying problem.
It stares you right in the face. They talked about their local government and why it wasn't working. It was all tied in together and it revealed their inability to deal with the water problem through conventional avenues. It could be a simple thing, for example the government created a new economic zone in that area. The people who were doing economic development and were partners in all of this kind of stuff wanted to let people know what was changing.