Dustin Dwyer
Reporter / Producer, Michigan PublicDustin Dwyer reports enterprise and long-form stories from Michigan Public's West Michigan bureau.
He was a fellow in the class of 2018 at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. He’s been with Michigan Public since 2004, when he started as an intern in the newsroom.
He left the station in 2010-2011 to be a stay at home dad, and returned to be part of the Changing Gears project, a collaboration between Michigan Radio, Ideastream in Cleveland and WBEZ in Chicago. From 2012–2017, he was part of the team for State of Opportunity, and produced several radio documentaries on kids and families in Michigan. He lives in Grand Rapids with his wife and three kids.
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Vice President Kamala Harris visited Grand Rapids Thursday as part of her "Fight for Reproductive Freedoms" tour.
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Money will go toward debt forgiveness at cash-strapped local school districts, and for large capital-improvement projects at colleges and universities.
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The Michigan Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday in the case, which could set a precedent for future deadly force incidents.
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More than 100,000 people in Michigan could lose access to Medicaid if they don’t submit their renewal information by the end of the month.
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Today marks the official Juneteenth holiday, though some events started over the weekend.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer says a two-year pause on collecting sales taxes on electric vehicles will help more people afford them.
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The plans to put the rapids back in Grand Rapids are getting another redesign.
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A federal judge has vacated the conviction of a man who spent more than 20 years in prison for a double murder. Jeff Titus was convicted for the murders of two hunters near Kalamazoo.
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A new group of commissioners in Ottawa County didn’t technically violate the law when they made a number of surprise, sweeping changes to county policy at their first meeting in January.
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Hailey Huggett said she felt like she’s living through a paradox.“Here I am, missing school today,” she said, “to fight for the right to go to school without being killed.”