Brett Dahlberg
Brett has a master’s degree from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism and before Michigan Radio, he was an intern at WNYC and with Ian Urbina of the New York Times and worked at WXXI and WCMU. He also produced freelance reporting work focused on health and science in New York City. Brett grew up in Bremerton, Washington, and holds a bachelor’s degree from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
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The area covered by a do-not-eat advisory for deer near a contaminated former air force base in Northern Michigan is shrinking.
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Baldwin Community Schools have had to cancel almost half of its first few weeks of classes.
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A rural health department in the Upper Peninsula says it’s getting slammed by new COVID-19 cases.
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The Health Department of Northwest Michigan is ordering the school districts in its jurisdiction to require students and staff to wear masks this year.
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Struggling to keep up with a COVID-19 surge in Michigan, overwhelmed local health departments turned to schools, and recruited principals and teachers as supplemental contact tracers.
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With most Michigan schools back to in-person learning, the state is seeing a surge in COVID-19 cases. Health departments are turning to an unlikely new crew of contact tracers: school principals.
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Some local health departments in Michigan are telling the state not to send them more COVID-19 vaccine doses because they can’t find enough people to vaccinate.
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Not all COVID-19 vaccine programs in Michigan were designed with people with disabilities in mind, says Jim Moore, the executive director of Disability Network Northern Michigan.
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Michigan’s infant mortality rate has fallen to its lowest rate since at least the 1970s, when the current method of record-keeping began, the state…
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More than half of Leelanau County residents are vaccinatedNorthern Michigan county is the first in the state to fully vaccinate more than half of its eligible residents against COVID-19. Leelanau County has…