McCaskill Fields Questions on Abortion, President Trump During Springfield Town Hall
On the seventh stop of an eight-city town hall throughout Missouri, Democratic Sen. Clair McCaskill was quick to note the importance of listening to citizens who hold views other than her own. McCaskill is seeking re-election in 2018, and is expected to face heavy Republican opposition. Her speaking engagement came in downtown Springfield, in a county where nearly twice as many voters cast a ballot for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton in November. “I owe respect to the people in Missouri who...
Back from Jordan, Film Crew Sets Sights on Second Trip
A documentary film crew from Springfield has just returned from Jordan, where they spent a week interviewing Syrian refugees. Shannon Bowers is a lead producer and the main interviewer for Carbon Trace Productions film crew. She and three others landed in Amman, grabbed some hummus and tabbouli, then went to work filming in refugee clinics run by the Syrian American Medical Society. “They were treating anything from just, like, your common cold—and mostly it was just your common cold—to even...
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Immigrants Make This Farm Town Work. Now They're Applying For Citizenship
At the public library in the rural Morgan County town of Brush, Colo., Marissa Velazquez welcomes her students to class. It's a sunny Saturday morning, and the day marks the halfway point in Velazquez's class, a 10-week crash course on American history, civics and English. Nearly all of the students work in either meatpacking or dairying. Everyone in it has the same goal: become an American citizen. In two hours, Velazquez runs through voting rights, the legislative process and some grammar...
