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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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." -
Some Michiganders began receiving SNAP benefits again Friday, but by the end of the day, the U.S. Supreme Court had reversed an order requiring the federal government to resume the program in full. -
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services says it will resume distributing SNAP benefits on Saturday, but the federal government is only making enough money available for partial payments. -
With over 68% of votes counted, Mo Baydoun emerges victorious in his bid for a full term as mayor of Dearborn Heights, outpacing Councilwoman Denise Malinowski-Maxwell by more than two-to-one margins amidst pledges of digital innovation and fiscal prudence. -
FEMA has denied Michigan’s appeal for additional federal disaster aid following a historic ice storm in March that caused widespread damage across northern Michigan.
