Michigan Municipal League

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For nearly 150 episodes, the Michigan Municipal League podcast brought you insightful interviews on municipal innovations and politics. Now, this is where you can listen to posts from our blog, People & Place, as well as listen to previous Live with the League shows. Read our blog here: https://mml.org/resources-research/blogs/Watch previous Live with the League videos here: https://www.youtube.com/@MichiganMunicipalLeague

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Birmingham Plots the Course to a Greener Future, & Roscommon Puts a Bird on It 26.08.2025 13:21

In our series on the 2025 Community Excellence Award applicants, we take a look at three Michigan communities making the world just a little bit more sustainable and environmentally friendly. The Village of Roscommon and the City of Southfield created beautiful, educational spaces celebrating important wildlife, and the City of Birmingham developed an all-encompassing sustainability and public hea...

Live with the League — 8.25.2025 — Live from Clare (Featuring MI Home Program) 26.08.2025 41:04

We begin this week’s show with a wide-ranging conversation with Clare City Manager Jeremy Howard and Mayor Patrick Humphrey about the city’s downtown revitalization efforts, creative placemaking projects, municipal partnerships, and more. We then turn to our legislative update to discuss our new MI Home Program proposal—a set of tools to address the state’s housing crisis.

Big Rapids “Plays Big” With Hemlock Park, Milford’s Central Park Gets a Glow-Up, & “Doing A Lot with a Little Bit”: Mt. Pleasant’s Town Center 18.08.2025 12:48

In our series on the 2025 Community Excellence Award applicants, we visit three Michigan municipalities that strengthened community bonds through revitalized third spaces. Big Rapids and Milford breathed new life into aging downtown parks, and Mt. Pleasant turned an unpopular parking lot into a thriving new town square.

Live with the League — 8.11.2025 — Introducing the Community Growth Academy 12.08.2025 31:04

Welcome to August with Live with the League! This week’s show begins with a conversation with Luke Forrest of the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, discussing the new Community Growth Academy and how it can help communities navigate economic transitions. Moving into what's happening (or not happening) in Lansing, we discussed the current state of the ever-ongoing budget proc...