Dustin Dwyer
Reporter/ProducerDustin Dwyer is a reporter on the State of Opportunity project, based in Grand Rapids. 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.
In 2010, Dustin left journalism to be a stay-at-home dad. Now that his daughter Irene is turning two, he's happy to be back at Michigan Radio, where there are far fewer temper-tantrums.
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It was February 2006, almost exactly 10 years ago, when then-governor Jennifer Granholm used her weekly radio address to urge state lawmakers to pass a…
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Vanessa Gutierrez doesn't remember Mexico.It's there in her baby pictures, in family albums. She's seen what it looks like, and she knows she was born…
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It’s 8:45 on a Saturday morning, and I’m following along with one of the co-founders of Reach Out to Youth, a long-running program that brings elementary…
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Colin Parks gets an email alert almost every time a baby in Michigan dies in their sleep.Parks is head of Michigan’s Child Protective Services, and he…
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February is a busy time for George Bayard. He’s a collector and a keeper of black history, and this is the one month he’s in high demand in Grand Rapids.I…
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Michelle Gach grabs a couple slices of pizza before we get started. She has a story to tell, and it turns out to be a long one, covering the past 14 years…
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The Centers for Disease Control released new statistics Friday on drug overdose deaths in the U.S. The numbers may not be surprising to anyone who's…
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This is the story of a new movement in American education; a story about a new way of thinking about how some students learn, and how to get them to love…
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The federal government has a long history of involvement in the nation's schools, particularly in the past half century, after President Lyndon Johnson…
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Pacific Standard magazine published a piece online yesterday tracing the history of OxyContin, and the rise of opiate addiction in the United States.…