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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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. -
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. -
Today, a special episode on the week in Michigan politics. -
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. -
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. -
Things look better this week in Michigan's long march against COVID... but it ain't over. -
Listen to the governor's fourth State of the State address with full commentary by Rick Pluta (Senior Capitol Correspondent, Michigan Public Radio Network) and Laura Weber Davis (Executive Producer, Michigan Radio). Plus, an interview with Republican state Rep. Andrew Fink. -
Larry Bell, the founder of Bell's Brewery, did the thing he said he wouldn't do. He sold. -
There’s been a rise in Trump-loyalist election-conspiracy theorists appointed to county-level election positions following the 2020 election. There are reports, particularly from swing states like Michigan, of Republicans who believe falsely the election was stolen from Trump being installed in elections offices or running to be elections officials. -
Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald details the investigation that led to unprecedented charges.
