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6 Building Community Wealth by Reducing Energy Burdens Q&A with Michigan Saves 10 Making Hard-to-Understand Issues Understandable By Rich Donley & Michelle Franzen Martin

18 Upper Peninsula and the Thumb to Get Blazing Fast Internet Service This Year Closing the Digital Divide By Michigan Moonshot & Merit Network 20 Human Infrastructure Can No Longer Be Ignored if We Want to Sustain Our Communities By Valerie Kindle 23 COVER STORY Rochester Hills Reimaging, Reinventing, and Renewing Auburn Road 26

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14 The Push and Pull of Climate Change By Beth Gibbons & Susan Ekoh

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Building Trust & Understanding 2021 Annual Convention Recap 32 We Share a Future By Craig D’Agostini

5 Executive Director’s Message 34 The Lab Report 37 Legal Spotlight 38 Northern Field Report 40 Municipal Finance 45 Municipal Q&A 46 Maximize Your Membership Columns

COVER The City of Rochester Hills was honored with the League’s 2021 Community Excellence Award on September 24 in Grand Rapids during our annual Convention. Pictured l-r: Chief of Staff Maria Willett, Planning and Economic Development Director Sara Roediger, Economic Development Manager Pamela Valentik, and Mayor Bryan Barnett. Photo by Rudy Malmquist. See mml.org for the electronic version of the magazine and past issues.

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