Dustin Dwyer
Reporter / ProducerDustin Dwyer reports enterprise and long-form stories from Michigan Public'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 Public 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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The current owner of the Palisades nuclear plant is hoping to restart operations by the end of this year. But first it has to explain how it plans to repair a large number of cracked cooling tubes. -
A warm spell in February meant record low ice coverage on the Great Lakes at the end of last winter. -
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has said it will make a final decision by the end of July on whether to approve reopening the Palisades nuclear plant. -
The settlement covers four sites in Kent County. The Michigan attorney general originally sued over contamination at nine sites. -
Activists with the group Cosecha Michigan staged a hunger strike to urge passage of a package of bills that would have allowed undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses. The bills failed this week in Lansing. -
Developers are seeking more than half a billion dollars in tax breaks for the $740 million plan to build three new towers in downtown Grand Rapids. -
Small Business Saturday started as a marketing slogan by American Express. Now it's a focal point for Michigan small businesses during the holiday shopping season. -
The lawsuit is seeking potentially millions of dollars in backpay for more than 3,000 tenured faculty members. -
The free walk-in clinic is in advance of World AIDS Day, which is December 1st. -
At the last public meeting, residents and activists raised concerns about the safety of the plan.
