I'm not sure that I agree with that. We now live in a global world where the issues effecting people have shifting from a local and state level to a national a

I'm not sure that I agree with that. We now live in a global world where the issues effecting people have shifting from a local and state level to a national and global level. Therefore, in order for the reach of a modern day town "town square" to be comparable to those in the past, it would also need to be national or globabl.