Brett Dahlberg
EditorBrett joined Michigan Public in December 2021 as an editor. He was previously the general assignment reporter at WCMU in Mount Pleasant, and before that the health reporter at WXXI in Rochester, New York. He's filed stories for National Public Radio, IEEE Spectrum, The Village Voice and other outlets.
Brett earned a master’s degree in journalism from the City University of New York. He grew up on Washington state’s Kitsap Peninsula and is proud that his cell phone number still carries the 360 area code.
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The Michigan High School Athletic Association approved new rules that immediately allow student-athletes to profit from social media deals, autograph signings, and modeling. -
A Monday morning pileup involving dozens of semitrucks brought traffic to a standstill on both directions of I-196 in Zeeland Township between Grand Rapids and Holland. -
President Donald Trump says his tariffs are the reason the country's trade deficit has decreased and claims he's revived Detroit's auto industry — though companies have had mixed success recently. -
The University of Michigan Board of Regents held a special meeting Monday in which it elected Kent Syverud, chancellor of Syracuse University, as U of M's new president. -
Mercedes-Benz USA and its parent company have agreed to pay $149.6 million to settle allegations the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests. -
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a 300-page report detailing accusations of sexual abuse against both adults and children in the Grand Rapids area going back to 1950. -
Residents attended a protest in Detroit and a virtual public hearing to demand more scrutiny towards DTE's proposal to power a 1.4 gigawatt data center coming to Saline Township. -
The Oakland County Republican Party says it received a series of threats, including to "eradicate" the party and its donors and shoot up the party headquarters. -
In the vote to end the government shutdown, all of Michigan's Democratic representatives voted against the spending bill, and all Republican representatives voted for it. -
After a week of whiplash in which federal food aid benefits were closed off, then opened, then closed again, Michigan now says SNAP recipients "should receive full benefit payments on their normally scheduled date."
