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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Federal help officially arrived at two Michigan hospitals today. The Department of Defense has sent two teams of doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists to hospitals in Dearborn and Grand Rapids. -
Residents in Benton Harbor have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the city and state of “reckless and outrageous” conduct in their handling of the water crisis.
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It’s not over. It’s just different.The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has been on a slow and steady rise in Michigan since August. The number still hasn’t reached the levels seen during previous surges of the virus. But for Spectrum Health in West Michigan, hospitals are once again reaching capacity, and staff are being stretched to their limits.
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Voters in at least three cities will decide whether to change the use of gendered pronouns in their city charger. -
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.
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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. -
Canada plans to re-open its border to vaccinated American tourists starting August 9th. -
Grand Rapids City Commission this morning unanimously approved a $546 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year.The new budget includes a $700,000… -
Republican Congressman Peter Meijer of West Michigan called yesterday’s [Weds'] events at the US Capitol an “insurrection.”The freshman congressman from… -
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…
