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The Michigan Municipal League needs your help in getting federal COVID-19 relief support, by filling out this five-minute survey. Getting information from this survey is extremely important in the fight the National League of Cities (NLC) is doing to get financial support for our communities battling the coronavirus. The National...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has released the HEROES Act (HR 6800). It is $3 trillion stimulus plan that would send nearly a trillion dollars to state and local governments. The most significant portion of this proposal is that it would allocate $375 billion in direct assistance to local governments of...

Michigan Municipal League President Brenda F. Moore is in Washington D.C. this week for the National League of Cities’ 2020 State Municipal League Executive Directors and Presidents Fly-In. The Saginaw Mayor Pro Tem is being accompanied by the League’s Anthony Minghine, COO and Deputy Executive Director. This annual event, which...

MML Members and Staff Meet with Senator Debbie Stabenow during the 2019 NLC Congressional Cities Conference (March 12, 2019). Wow, what a series of busy days for Michigan Municipal League members and staff in Washington D.C. during the 2019 National League of Cities Congressional City Conference. Below are some words and...

WATCH the hearing live here TODAY (March 13, 2018) at 2:30 p.m.: https://www.commerce.senate.gov/public/ Michigan Municipal League CEO and Executive Director Dan Gilmartin will speak before Congress in Washington D.C. this week about infrastructure needs. We all know how ferociously bad Michigan’s roads are. Now Washington, D.C. is going to learn. Gilmartin has...

The Michigan Municipal League’s John LaMacchia will be in Washington D.C. Thursday to participate in Infrastructure Week 2016. The celebration organized by the National League of Cities and its partners is to raise awareness about the nation’s infrastructure needs. Cities construct and maintain the majority of our nation’s infrastructure and...