Dustin Dwyer
Dustin Dwyer is a reporter for a new project at Michigan Radio that will look at improving economic opportunities for low-income children. Previously, he worked as an online journalist for Changing Gears, as a freelance reporter and as Michigan Radio's West Michigan Reporter. Before he joined Michigan Radio, Dustin interned at NPR's Talk of the Nation, wrote freelance stories for The Jackson Citizen-Patriot and completed a Reporting & Writing Fellowship at the Poynter Institute.
Dustin earned his bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida. He's also lived in Colorado, California, Oregon and Washington D.C. He's always happy to explain - with detached journalistic objectivity - why Michigan is a better place to live than any of the others.
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Key testimony expected in kidnapping trial after judge warned lawyers about "wasting time" last weekJurors will likely hear this week from a key undercover FBI informant in the case of the alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. -
"This wasn't just talk."
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A graphic designer. A nutritionist. A heavy equipment mechanic. A retiree who had to stop watching local news ("My wife says it makes me angry."). A first-year college student who'd planned to spend the rest of the summer visiting his mom in Mexico. A mom who said her own son was murdered, and the case is unresolved. A woman who said she'd almost been murdered herself ("I am against guns, totally against guns.").
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Jury selection begins on Tuesday for the second federal trial for two men accused of plotting to kidnap governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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Peter Meijer had the money advantage. He had the name recognition. He had the advantage of incumbency. But early Wednesday morning, Meijer found himself conceding the 3rd Congressional District GOP primary to John Gibbs, a former software developer and administration official during Donald Trump’s presidency.
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Another federal trial is scheduled to begin in two weeks for two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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The Michigan Department of Civil Rights has formally filed two claims of racial discrimination by the Grand Rapids police department.
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The Grand Rapids Police Department violated the Constitution with a policy of photographing and fingerprinting people who were not under arrest, the state Supreme Court has ruled.
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The city of Grand Rapids has fired Christopher Schurr, the police officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya.
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Michigan's summer tourism season is here, and there’s hope that the industry will continue to rebound from the pandemic.
