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Complaints take the form of gripes, blaming others, mutterings and various expressions of conflicts or concerns.
Have you ever seen or experienced a group of smokers out "on break," standing in a circle, all chiming in with their complaints? I understand this is called "fuming.
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DEAR MARY: I am a part-time caregiver for a friend's 88-year-old mother.
I take her to the gym to exercise several days a week and I try to think of fun things to do with her. The problem is, she complains of fatigue and depression, but her family physician dismisses her complaints and tells her she is just getting older.
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Cedric Marshall looked on Monday as the Memphis police director and Shelby County's deputy district attorney highlighted the latest boarding up of a house declared a public nuisance.
The century-old Midtown house at 1076 S. Cox, at the corner of Southern Avenue and a few blocks east of Cooper Street, had been home to renters arrested on drug and other charges on Aug. 30. Police said the Union Station precinct fielded complaints about the corner house for more than a year.
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Everything's a tweet in life," a caller named Derek says on talk radio.
As I pull into a Wards Corner parking lot, the pundits recite their complaints about the world's shortened attention span. They talk about how much time people spend looking at a screen. They talk about how the Internet has cut into reading time rather than television time. Book reading time.
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TIPP CITY -- A high-profile corner that had been the source of past complaints is being transformed into a park and home of a veterans memorial.
The city's Parks Advisory Board on May 8 got a look at a proposed revised park layout and the proposed design for the veterans memorial area, which will be at the southeast corner of Hyatt and Main streets. The land was purchased from Marathon Oil after hearing complaints about uses and appearance of the site at the western edge of the historic district.
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Madison Although Wisconsin coach Barry Alvarez spent most of his post-game news conference talking about how his team wasn't as sharp as he'd like Saturday, the truth is that his defense rarely found itself backed into a corner against Indiana.
And when it was, Alvarez had no complaints about the way the unit handled the situation.
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WILTON - The owner of the mothballed Farmington Diner told selectmen Tuesday night that she wants to reopen the business, but her plans are uncertain.
Rachel Jackson Hodsdon attended the meeting at the request of selectmen, who have received complaints about the building's appearance at the corner of Cemetery Road and Routes 2 and 4 in East Wilton.
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City Council will vote today on allocating $2 million for what council president Steve Bagbey called an "unfunded mandate" -- fixing sidewalks and putting ramps on every street corner.
Over two years, the money will go toward addressing sidewalk complaints and toward installing ramps mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act. Those concrete ramps, which include a ridged mat, have to go on every street corner -- about 6,100 in Evansville.
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Occupy Colorado Springs protestors plan to speak at Tuesday's City Council meeting and keep someone on the downtown corner where they've been camped out since early October, in the wake of Mayor Steve Bach's decision late Sunday not to extend a permit for their tents.
Police dismantled the Occupy Colorado Springs site at Acacia Park early Monday.
..."We have received many complaints, our public safety resources are being taxed, and ...
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TIPP CITY -- A high-profile corner whose past has included a gas station and car lot will be transformed -- first on computer, later in reality -- into a small passive park.
The city purchased the land at the southeastern corner of Hyatt and Main streets from Marathon Oil after hearing complaints about the appearance of the site at the western edge of the historic district.