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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Infighting in the MIGOP led to an actual fight during an after-hours gathering in Clare. Bridge Michigan wrote about the scuffle between Party officials from Kalamazoo and Macomb. -
Across the country, suicide rates are nearly twice as high in rural communities as they are in urban ones. Part of Michigan's new proposed gun laws aim to reduce that. We spoke to a suicide prevention activist in the Upper Peninsula. -
Democrats in Lansing are hoping to pass several gun safety laws. But the thing about laws is that they have to be enforced to work. -
Detroit-based audio storyteller Zak Rosen shares the best of his podcast, The Best Advice Show, and ask Stateside producer Laura Weber Davis for her own advice. -
Wayne State scholar and author Kidada Williams explores the oft-overlooked era of American Reconstruction. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
A couple shares their harrowing account of a devastating defect in their pregnancy, the abortion they pursued, and the toll of it all.
