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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A federal jury in Michigan convicted the men of conspiring to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer — in what the FBI called a domestic terrorism case. Prosecutors say they wanted to overthrow the government.
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Police in Grand Rapids have released videos of an incident earlier this month when an unnamed officer shot a Black man in the back of his head following an apparent struggle for the officer's Taser.
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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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With contract talks in Detroit at a critical point, bargainers at General Motors and the auto workers union clashed over competing proposals over the weekend.
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The Trump administration says its tariffs on steel and aluminum are about protecting American industries and jobs. The auto parts industry is feeling the pinch of tariffs and metal prices.
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When a disagreement on a Michigan street turned into a deadly gunbattle, with small children caught in the open, Carmesha Rogers ran into the line of fire, telling herself: "Just get the kids out the way. 'Cause I'd want someone to do that for my kids."
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President Barack Obama said Monday he was "absolutely committed" to the survival of a domestic auto industry that can compete internationally. Yet he also said the auto industry is not moving in the right direction fast enough. Detroit autoworkers share their views.
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Now that President Bush has said he will help the nation's auto industry with $17.4 billion in emergency loans, employees on the front lines weigh in.
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In the wake of talks over the auto bailout collapsing on Capitol Hill, auto workers in Detroit ponder their increasingly dismal fate. Many say the failure of the package in the Senate was a political attack by Republicans who blocked aid for Detroit automakers.
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The head of the United Auto Workers has said the union is willing to change its contract and will delay billions of dollars in payments to a union-run health care trust. The concession is a bid to help Detroit's ailing Big Three automakers.