Dustin Dwyer | Michigan Radio
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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"We told you so": Activists speak out as city of Grand Rapids prepares to release video of police shFor years, people in Grand Rapids have warned that the tactics of the city's police department would lead to death. Last week Patrick Lyoya, an unarmed Black man, was shot.
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Dan Chappel's FBI handlers told him not to suggest ideas to the alleged plotters when he was brought on as an informant. But he admitted in the trial Monday that he had.
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Seventeen months after they were first arrested, four men will go on trial for allegedly plotting to kidnap Michigan's governor.
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Kaleb Franks had been arguing, along with other defendants in the case, that he was entrapped by federal agents. Wednesday, he told a judge the plot was real.
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It's a grim statistic, but not all bad news, at least according to one economist.
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The latest numbers in the state show a decline in cases and hospitalizations since last week, but the numbers remain near record levels.
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The federal trial for five men accused of plotting to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer is scheduled to begin March 8 in Grand Rapids.
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The shortest route to get a ship from Asia to the U.S. is through America's West Coast ports. But given the pileup there, some ships are going the long way through eastern Canada into the Great Lakes.
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Mercy Health Muskegon had to convert its emergency waiting room to patient care. Now the waiting room is in a heated tent in the parking lot.
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State association says hospitals remain under "incredible strain" dealing with COVID-19.