Laura Weber Davis
Executive Producer, StatesideLaura is Executive Producer of Stateside. She came to Michigan Public from WDET in Detroit, where she was senior producer on the current events program, Detroit Today.
She began her career in public radio as an 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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Today, we talk to Frederick Richard, a University of Michigan gymnast, about his Paris Olympics adventure and what's next for him, collegiate and beyond. -
In today’s podcast, an update on the case for the officer charged with the killing of Patrick Lyoya in 2022. -
Today, we hear from Mayor Mike Duggan on his decision to run for governor of Michigan in 2026. -
Today, we talk to Natasha Bagdasarian about the state partnering with the department of health and human services to provide free access to birth control and sexually transmitted disease prevention medication. And, a feature on women stocking up on Plan B in Michigan. -
Today, we talk to John Niyo, sports columnist for The Detroit News, about how crazy it is the Lions are 8-1 with no signs of stopping. -
Today, a conversation with Stephen Henderson, the host of Created Equal on WDET, about what’s next for the Democratic Party, and what lessons are to be learned after the election. -
We talk to VoteBeat's Hayley Harding about Michigan’s voter records, and what she expects as votes are counted and certified. -
Michigan’s Lebanese-American community is reeling as violence spreads in the Middle East. The scale of Israel’s exponential escalation of war with Hezbollah in Lebanon is hard to fathom as yet more civilians have been caught in the middle. Journalist Razi Jafri has spent the past many months following the personal and political change happening in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Hamtramck - communities in Michigan that have high populations of Arab Americans. -
A conversation about how Donald Trump’s first-term trade war set the stage for the present dispute over manufacturing tariffs. -
Detroit Free Press columnist Khalil AlHajal takes a deep look at DTE bills, analyzing our expenses as the utility asks for more rate hikes.
