Dynamic Decisions Podcast
When a City Learns to Say "Yes"
Episode 16
May 18, 2026
36 min
What does it look like when a city stops being a bureaucratic wall and starts being a growth partner? Samantha Mlot, Economic Development Advocate for the City of Bloomington, Illinois, is building exactly that model. Bloomington is growing faster than it ever has, and Samantha is at the center of it, serving as the si…