Brett Dahlberg
ReporterBrett joined WCMU in February, 2021, as a general assignment reporter. He was previously the health reporter at WXXI Public Broadcasting in Rochester, N.Y., and has filed stories for National Public Radio, IEEE Spectrum, The Village Voice and other outlets.
Brett earned a master’s degree in journalism from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at 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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Members of Michigan's congressional delegation are calling for more transparency from the Department of Defense regarding the "airborne object." -
The Republican candidate for Michigan governor has chosen her running mate.Tudor Dixon picked former state Representative Shane Hernandez for her lieutenant governor candidate.
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The Grand Rapids police department has named the officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya on April 4.
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Hospitals in Michigan have run out of room for new COVID-19 patients. Some Mid-Michigan hospitals say they can’t even find slots for their patients in neighboring states.
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Work is starting this week to upgrade one of the aging drawbridges spanning the Saginaw River in Bay City, and there’s some urgency to the construction.
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Michigan’s fourth wave of COVID-19 cases continues to grow in the northern part of the state. Health officials there say hospital workers are facing the twin hazards of burnout and threats of violence.
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Michigan’s fourth pandemic surge is slamming into primary care clinics: It’s not just hospitals that are getting overwhelmed; the places people go for routine appointments are also running out of space and staff.
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Enbridge Energy says protesters endangered themselves and the environment when they got access to a valve site on the Line 5 pipeline last month, but the company did not file an official report to the federal agency that tracks pipeline safety problems.
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Two previous recall petitions were rejected because they didn’t meet the state’s requirements for factual language. The first was rejected in court, and the second by the local board of elections.
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Michigan’s top doctor says the state is not planning any pandemic mandates, despite hospitals reporting crowded conditions and new COVID-19 cases continuing to climb.
