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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For some Michiganders, Up North begins when you cross the Mackinac Bridge. -
Going Up North is a Michigan rite of passage. But where exactly does Up North begin? -
The story behind the iconic trout label of Bell's Two Hearted Ale -
Michigan consistently ranks among the top craft beer states. Why? -
It's hard to know where pizza was first dipped in ranch, but it probably started in a Gen X high school cafeteria. -
We love pizza. We love ranch. So did the two first collide here? -
The Black Keys, Glenn Miller, Ben Folds, Paul Russell. What do all these artists have in common? They've all sung about Kalamazoo. But why? How did "Kalamazoo" make it into so many songs? -
Gubernatorial beef over "Michigander" vs. "Michiganian". -
Are people from Michigan called Michiganders or Michiganians? Discover the history and timeline behind how politics played a part in the state's nickname. -
M.L. Elrick has spent decades covering local governments in southeast Michigan in the muckraking tradition. He joined Stateside to discuss recent investigations and why local investigations are so important.
