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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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. -
A conversation with techno music producer Carl Craig on all things rhythm, inspiration, and Detroit. -
Mackinac Island is celebrating 150 years since it was designated the country’s second-ever national park. Stateside spoke with the chief curator at Mackinac State Historic Parks, Craig Wilson, about early life and conflict on Mackinac Island, the tourism boom, and the little-known history of Mackinac’s brief time as a national park. -
The University of Michigan announced it will sever ties from private companies with plainclothes investigators. A UM student shares what happened in an interaction with a suspected surveillance agent. -
A conversation about the connection between the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV and Michigan. -
A mistrial was declared in the murder trial of the former Grand Rapids police officer who shot and killed Patrick Lyoya at a traffic stop in 2022 after the jury was unable to reach a verdict. We talked to two reporters who were at the courthouse about the trial, the community reaction, and what happens next. -
Trump wants auto manufacturers to move entirely to the U.S. But they're keeping the administration's fluid policies and the high cost of moving in mind as they wait. -
Michigan Public's health reporter Kate Wells explains what the federal cuts to funds allocated in response to COVID-19 mean for Michigan. -
The pandemic changed lives in ways that are still with us today. This first in a series of conversations focuses on health care and medical knowledge, making connections between past and present. -
Koby Levin discusses how people who lost their homes to tax foreclosure in Wayne County have a chance to recoup money the county made on the homes at auction.
