Dustin Dwyer | Michigan Radio
Dustin Dwyer reports enterprise and long-form stories from Michigan Radio’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 Radio 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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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. But, Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday the sudden changes were a “blatant violation of public trust.”
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Ice cover on the Great Lakes has dipped to a 50-year low, according to federal data compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
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Organized by the group End Gun Violence Michigan, statewide events were organized to to push for the new Democratic majority in the state legislature to enact laws Republicans rejected while they were in control.
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The trial in Jackson County is the first of the state trials to move forward. Two men were found guilty in federal court over the summer, while two others were found not guilty in the spring.
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Attorneys for Barry Croft and Adam Fox say they want a chance to present evidence that one of the jurors in the federal trial had a bias against their clients from the start.
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Five of the 14 men charged over the alleged plot to kidnap Whitmer are facing hearings in northern Michigan this week to decide whether there's enough evidence to proceed to trial.
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Two men were acquitted in the spring on charges they conspired to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. A jury deadlocked on charges against two other men, and they're now facing a second trial.
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The formal charges involve two incidents of alleged discrimination against Black residents. The state civil rights department says 28 other claims are still under investigation.
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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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The unofficial start of the summer tourism season is here, and there’s hope that the industry will continue to rebound from the pandemic, despite fears of high inflation in the economy.