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July 22, 2021

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 cutting by turning it into a fitness competition between a…

July 14, 2021

Expanding Access to Broadband: The Least Available Essential Utility

In spring of 2020, schools and the state of Michigan raced to get emergency food assistance and devices for remote school login to students across the state--many of whom lacked access to broadband connections or grocery stores to use them.…

April 16, 2021

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 built out our evolving policy platform on Community Wealth Building.…

January 27, 2021

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 Tax Credit with Public Act 343 of 2020. Good policy,…

December 7, 2020

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 any number of quality of life or placemaking ideas. That…

November 10, 2020

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 close Leroy Street and level much of the historic downtown…

October 27, 2020

Leveraging Philanthropic Partnerships to Build Community Wealth

"When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through." Thurgood Marshall How can local governments work with philanthropy…

September 17, 2020

Community Wealth Building Takes Center Stage at 2020 Michigan Municipal League Convention

The Michigan Municipal League’s evolution into the concept of Community Wealth Building will be front and center during our upcoming, first-ever Virtual Convention. The League revamped our mml.org home page earlier this year to focus on this direction for Michigan…

September 15, 2020

Remote Work Post-Covid

“Do you remember back in March, when school announced it was closing for three weeks?” I asked my wife recently. Obviously, few of us had been pessimistic enough about the protracted impact of Covid-19 on our lives. Ubiquitous work-from-home has…

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