Dustin Dwyer
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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Last week, defense attorneys attacked the military record of Dan Chappel, a key witness for prosecutors.
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Voters overturned the state's prevailing wage law for state contracts in 2018, but Governor Gretchen Whitmer says a state agency has the authority to implement the rule on its own.
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The study adds to research that already showed the benefits of the program.
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At his sentencing hearing, Kaleb Franks apologized to the governor and her family, saying the kidnapping plot "had to be traumatic and difficult."
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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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The Attorney General's office says a California-based company bought out the local company responsible for the contamination, and it hasn't complied with orders to clean it up.
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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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A preliminary hearing wrapped up Thursday for five men accused of helping with the alleged plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Michigan Radio's Dustin Dwyer joined Doug Tribou for a breakdown of what happened this week in the state case.
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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 found guilty in federal court in Grand Rapids last week over their role in the alleged plot. This week, five other men will appear for a preliminary exam in state court in Antrim County.