On the 1st anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Tish talks with Jim about how her community is doing after being the place where this hurricane came ashore and what you and I can do to help.

Charlie talks with Jim about the upcoming bi-centennial celebration of the Meadville Chamber in 2007. They also talk about what his chamber is doing to help small businesses in northwest Pennsylvania.

Matt joins Jim first to talk about how things are going in California with Governor Arnold. They go on to talk about the economy in the central valley and what his organization is doing to help small businesses. Later Matt and Jim are joined by Jeff Mosely of Houston and the three begin their visit talking about how to handle the immigration challenge. Jeff also talks about the Houston economy and his plans to grow the job base there by 60,000 jobs per year for 10 years.

Tim joins Jim to talk about the Milwaukee chamber and their small business initiatives.

Sandra joins Jim live at the ACCE Convention in Cleveland, OH to discuss the challenges her organization faced in growing the regional chamber. They go on to talk about how important it is for local chambers of commerce to network on a national level.

Abby joins Jim during the 2006 ACCE convention in Cleveland, OH to explain what the Arts Network does and how it helps independent artists. They also discuss how important networking is to small businesses.

Jim and Mick talk about reaching out globally through your local chamber of commerce during the ACCE convention in Cleveland, OH.

Steve joins Jim live at the ACCE convention in Cleveland, OH to talk about COSE and how important it is for small businesses to join their local Chamber of Commerce.

Judith begins her visit talking about the state of entrepreneurship in Europe and then move on to talk about the new Kauffman Web site designed to help growing small businesses deal with the issues they face as they transition to the next level of growth.

Dan and Jim talk about current small business public policy, including the new "do not fax" rules, passing small business health plans into law, and preventing a minimum wage increase from becoming law.