Laura Weber Davis
Executive Producer, StatesideLaura is Executive Producer of Stateside. She came to Michigan Radio from WDET in Detroit, where she was senior producer on the current events program, Detroit Today.
She began her career in public radio as a Michigan Radio intern before taking a job as a Capitol-beat reporter for the Michigan Public Radio Network.
Laura was born and raised in Ann Arbor, and has had a lifelong love affair with Detroit and Michigan more broadly. She is a graduate of Michigan State University (Go Green!) and she received a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California.
Laura is an audiophile with a public radio habit, a dusty-record music head with a crate-digger’s heart, a toddler wrangler, a beach goer, a Jane Austen lover, a horseback rider, a dog walker, and an active listener who loves to hear and tell a good story.
Whatever she is doing at this very moment, she’d rather be listening to showtunes.
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Rep. Jack Bergman dropped in to offer his thoughts on the votes to decide the Speaker of the House. And told us why he's voted Kevin McCarthy. -
With Biden's signing of the The Respect for Marriage Act, we're looking back at two decades of politicking and legal battles over gay marriage in Michigan.
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Michigan Medicine will acquire Lansing’s Sparrow Health System. It's the second high profile hospital merger we’ve seen in the state this year.
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The story of a school shooting doesn’t end with a news cycle. It doesn't end when the cameras stop showing up to campus or when weapon detecting devices are installed at a school. It’s an ongoing story, and one that only the people who’ve gone through it can truly understand.
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A couple shares their harrowing account of a devastating defect in their pregnancy, the abortion they pursued, and the toll of it all.
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We get the backstory on one of Lansing's staple thrift stores, Thrift Witch, a store that embodies a vintage Halloween vibe throughout the year.
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Dodge announced this week it will discontinue its iconic line of Chargers and Challengers. It's a brave new world for autos, moving away from traditional American muscle to an electrified future.
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Today, a special episode on the week in Michigan politics.
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It was announced on Tuesday that residents living near the Huron River should keep away from the water as a cancer-causing chemical was released into the river by manufacturer Tribar.
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James Dewitt Yancy, better known as J Dilla, showed the world in his brief life that the city’s best musical days are not in the past, but still ahead. The groundbreaking hip-hop producer died in 2006, but his musical legacy lives on. On today's episode, a conversation with journalist Dan Charnas, whose book about J Dilla's massive influence on American music was published this month.
