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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Lansing Mayor Andy Schor will be on the November ballot as he seeks a third term leading the capital city. He will face Kelsea Hector, who leads a Lansing nonprofit. -
After a five-year legal fight, two far-right activists have pleaded no contest to felonies for a robocall operation to deter Detroit voters from casting ballots in 2020. -
Operators can now load fuel into the Palisades Nuclear Plant's reactor, though its owner still needs to pass more regulatory hurdles before it can come back online. -
After going a decade without a single measles case, Kent County has recorded two in 2025. -
After President Donald Trump ordered military strikes on key sites in Iran's nuclear program, Michigan politicians are weighing in. -
The J.H. Campbell plant in Ottawa County was scheduled to end operations on May 31. -
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, and state House Speaker Matt Hall, a Republican, brought up the project during a meeting with the president last month. -
AG's office says "coordinated criminal acts" led police to raid homes of pro-Palestinian UM studentsThe Michigan attorney general's office says several police agencies worked together to investigate a string of vandalism. -
Health officials in Kent County say this is the county's first measles case in more than a decade.
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Former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr is set to face trial next year, more than three years after he shot and killed Patrick Lyoya
