The annual Fairfax County Chamber Debates are typically one of three statewide annual debates.

But a voter referendum would provoke a statewide debate on the issue.

It also sparked a statewide debate that could influence the future of Maine's lobster industry.

The statewide debate hosted by Idaho Public Television, the League of Women Voters and the Idaho Press Club was held on October 23 in Boise.

A two-week-old Texas law intended to prevent security alarm manufacturers from harassing recent burglary victims has opened a statewide debate over freedom of the press.

Because California, with 5.5 million schoolchildren, tends to set the national agenda on approaches to instruction, teachers, scholars and political leaders across the country are closely monitoring the statewide debate.

LLAA participated in the statewide debate about what should be done in response to raising rates of HIV infection and less available funding.

But the propriety of using the money for an arena, rather than for pressing civic needs, was the subject of a statewide debate and an unsuccessful court challenge by arena opponents.

But he insisted that "we are changing the culture" with the extensive statewide debate he was encouraging on "smart growth."