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Step up to be this year’s Strongest Town!
Is your community ready to represent Michigan in the Strongest Town competition? Nominations are open now through February 20 in this international competition hosted by our friends at Strong Towns. ...
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The Biggest Little Fix: Code Reform for Better Places
Last year we released our second “Enabling Better Places” guide with our partners at the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) and MEDC’s Redevelopment Ready Communities program (RRC). These two guides ...
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2021 MML Convention Aims to Spark a Community Revival Through Trust and Belonging
The Michigan Municipal League’s 2021 Convention is taking place in person later this month and this year’s focus is around the Community Wealth Building work the MML started last year ...
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Saginaw Fitness Court is Community Wealth Building in Action
This video out of the City of Saginaw caught our eye in a few ways. First, this new Fitness Court opened looks awesome and the way they did a ribbon ...
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Expanding Access to Broadband: The Least Available Essential Utility
“Last mile broadband” is a hot topic as we look back at the last year of widely varying connectivity experiences. Who had access to it, and who didn’t, made a ...
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Community Wealth Building: Taking It to Our Small Towns
“While the effects of the pandemic have been felt unevenly across Michigan communities, it has further emphasized the changing needs of our members.” Over the past year, the League has ...
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‘I Am Black History’ Series Highlights Michigan Leaders
The Michigan Municipal League (MML) is very excited about the new story-focused direction of our social media efforts and particularly with our ongoing “I Am Black History” series. If you ...
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Michigan Can Reinvest in Itself Again with the Return of the Historic Tax Credit
It's back, baby! Let's take this renewed Michigan Historic Tax Credit out for a ride! On December 30, 2020, Governor Whitmer signed Senate Bill 54, reinstating the Michigan Historic Preservation ...
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It Gets Cold Here—May As Well Enjoy It.
“That might work in Minneapolis, but you know we have winter here, right?” someone once objected. I think we were talking about bike commuting, but we could have been discussing ...
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Rebuilding the Heart of the Community
Back in the early 1970s, Pat Lockwood fell in love with a small town in mid-Michigan. She moved to Fenton, and soon thereafter, the community passed a ballot initiative to ...
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