(The following announcement is from the David Mathews Center for Civic Life in Alabama.)

The Kettering Foundation has announced that work is underway on an issue advisory with the working title, "Infectious Disease in America: How Do We Keep Our Communities Safe?"

This issue guide is being prepared by the Kettering Foundation for the National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI), and will soon be available to download on the National Issues Forums website at www.nifi.org.

Watch for more details about this latest publication in a series of issue guides and advisories intended to help people deliberate about difficult national issues.

(The following announcement is from the American Library Association Center for Civic Life, and the David Mathews Center for Civic Life.)

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(From Jean Johnson, jjohnson@publicagenda.org)

Citizens from the Panama City, Florida area gathered to consider priorities for the U.S. federal budget at a National Issues Forum on held on October 9, 2014.