Kevin Lavery
ReporterKevin Lavery is a general assignment reporter and occasional local host for Morning Edition and All Things considered.
Kevin Lavery joined WKAR in September 2006.
Prior to coming to WKAR, Lavery was a reporter at KWMU in St. Louis, Missouri, covering local politics, government, and biotechnology issues.
Lavery's journalism career began in the Navy. He studied journalism at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana; worked as news director and television producer for American Forces Network-Japan; and served in Antarctica as radio program director at the McMurdo Station Research Facility on Ross Island.
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The study indicates a 900-megawatt community solar expansion over five years could provide enough power for 171,000 homes. -
Demand for imported durable goods has reached record levels in 2021 and led to supply chain shortages.
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East Lansing Public Schools has canceled Halloween and Valentine's Day events in its elementary classes.
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The city of East Lansing will receive a total of $12.2 million by May 2022 as part of the American Rescue Plan Act.
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Student athletes in Lansing schools must now achieve at least a 2.0 grade point average to play.
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Michigan first declared the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day in 2019.
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The Lansing Symphony Orchestra begins its 92nd season Oct. 9 with a return to the Wharton Center.
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General Motors' two Lansing-area plants have reopened after being shut down for several weeks.
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Jaali, the eastern black rhino born in Lansing in 2019, will soon be transported to The Living Desert Zoo in Palm Desert, CA where he's expected to mate with a female black rhino from a zoo in Cleveland.
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Michigan State University researchers will use an EPA grant to study pollution in biosolids.
