Tom Stafford
Community Voices Producer-
A group of about 100 Springfielders gathered in September for One Springfield A Call to Action Town Hall.
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Meet Mia Adams and her husband Adam Frantz, young farmers in Ohio's Miami Valley.
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Summer is the season for front porch stories — stories with a folksy character. When 83-year-old Donna Parks came up reporter Tom Stafford’s Springfield sidewalk with a story to tell, Tom set up his recording equipment.
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Two springs ago, in a comfy office at Wittenberg University, a shy young African woman asked her financial aid counselor a question: If she were admitted,…
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When 83-year-old Lois Christel went to the Springfield Meijer store a week ago Tuesday, she found the toilet paper shelves already bare. But that’s not…
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A coalition of Springfield groups is trying to stitch together a food safety net for thousands of people. On March 4, the city’s South Side will become…
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Starting January 1, a new community-based nonprofit took over Springfield’s 40-year-old Second Harvest Food Bank. They’ll provide nearly five million…
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In Clark County, work is underway on a project some in the city see as critical to the long-hoped-for revival of downtown Springfield. It’s a nearly $7…
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And now, an eyewitness account of the addiction epidemic. Four decades ago, when Winkie Mitchell and Ellen Stickney began their careers, they worked with…
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For many Americans around the country, climate change is a partisan political issue. But to many people of religious faith, the issue transcends politics.…