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.” -
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. -
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. -
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.
