: a public building used for town-government offices and meetings
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: an event at which a public official or political candidate addresses an audience by answering questions posed by individual members
Town halls have lost some of their spontaneity. The 80 or so undecided voters chosen for Tuesday's event must submit their questions in advance and moderator Candy Crowley of CNN will decide which people to call on. Connie Cass
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Recent Examples on the WebThose with questions about monkeypox will have a chance to get answers Thursday during a virtual town hall event from the county health department. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2022 Tenaya Taylor, a Hartford resident and activist, spent much of the town hall event posting frustrations in the chat. Alex Putterman, courant.com, 26 Feb. 2022 Members of a group with a history of disrupting city meetings and events have sued Milwaukee Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson, accusing him of barring their entry into a town hall event on Oct. 16. Drake Bentley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2022 Protesters, however, have requested a town hall event, which would allow more students to question the president.Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2021 This latest telling of his favorite tale follows his Thursday night confusion at a CNN town hall event. James Freeman, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021 Biden aims to ramp up his public sales pitch for his sweeping domestic agenda tonight in a CNN town hall event. Aj Willingham, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021 On the agenda for that March 1 town hall, the council was asked to approve a project called Enclave at Lake Shadow, which would bring a 96-unit affordable housing development to an empty 15-acre lot near Kennedy Boulevard and Keller Road. Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 29 Aug. 2022 The town hall builds on the national branch of the nonprofit’s efforts to fund research about Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementia.San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022 See More