Finding the 21st Century

The town where I live, Walnut Creek, California, is a San Francisco suburb with about 65,000 residents. In a small step into the modern world, this month the city will begin streaming video of City Council meetings live on the web, and it will archive them on the web as well. I will be interested to see how it affects the small town governance process.

In another nod to the modern world, the local Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a nine-day Business Leaders Trip to China March 17 to 25, 2007. Globalization impacts here, as everywhere else.