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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A thousand hours of audio. 150,000 pages of documents. And one massive federal case involving five defendants who allegedly plotted to kidnap a sitting governor and blow up a bridge as part of a terrorist plot.That’s what defense attorneys told federal judge Robert Jonker they’re contending with as they prepared to go to trial in October. There’s just not enough time, they argued. -
Local and national groups have filed a formal petition for the federal Environmental Protection Agency to step in and provide clean water and power to residents in Benton Harbor.
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Canada plans to re-open its border to vaccinated American tourists starting August 9th.
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Grand Rapids City Commission this morning unanimously approved a $546 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year.The new budget includes a $700,000…
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Republican Congressman Peter Meijer of West Michigan called yesterday’s [Weds'] events at the US Capitol an “insurrection.”The freshman congressman from…
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The state says an increase in the minimum wage is unlikely for next year.Right now, the minimum hourly wage in Michigan, is 9 dollars and 65 cents an…
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The number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus continues to climb in Michigan. But the number isn’t rising as fast as it was a few weeks…
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In November of 1974, Richard Vander Veen was elected to the U.S. Congress from what was then Michigan’s fifth district.Vander Veen was from Grand Rapids.…
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A federal magistrate says the case against five of the men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer can proceed to a grand jury…
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Spring brings thousands of seasonal migrant workers to farms across the country, where they usually live in camps with several to a room sleeping in bunk beds. How does that work during a pandemic?
