Mansfield's weekly civic notebook.
About Mansfield covers Mansfield, Texas with weekly local reporting, public affairs interviews, community updates, sports, and recurring lifestyle segments. Its center of gravity is practical: school board races, city council decisions, construction, public safety, local arts, and the people shaping town life.
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About Mansfield is a local news-and-talk program focused tightly on Mansfield, Texas. It has the cadence of a weekly civic briefing, but the episodes leave room for conversation, memory, and neighborhood texture. Headlines cover the practical business of town life: school district issues, city council actions, public meetings, traffic changes, scams, parks, local businesses, public safety, and elections. The show gives special attention to Mansfield ISD, including school board candidate interviews and discussions of college, career, and military readiness, special education resources, student recognition, and campus life. Election coverage is direct and useful. Candidates are asked who they are, why they are running, what they see as district strengths and weaknesses, and where voters can find campaign information. City interviews bring the same grounded approach to council members, local professionals, local honorees, and people involved in Mansfield's growth. The show also treats local history as active civic knowledge, not background decoration. The Reverend Floyd Moody interview connects family, faith, education, the park system, Mansfield Cemetery, Black history, and firsthand recollection into a broader picture of the city. Those conversations give the archive a human shape. Shorter recurring features round out the weekly package. Moment with the Mayor tracks city priorities and events. Methodist Mansfield News to Know brings health and longevity advice into the local feed. Cultural Arts Calendar points toward things happening nearby. Sports coverage follows high school athletics and North Texas SC. Brian Certain's Cocktail of the Week gives the program a lighter finish, with recipes, spirits history, seasonal ingredients, and a bit of local personality. The production style is plainspoken and familiar. It does not chase national outrage or broad political theater. Its value is narrower and more durable: Mansfield residents can hear what is changing around them, who is asking for their vote, where roads or campuses may be affected, and which community events are worth knowing about. The interviews are often conversational rather than polished, and that is part of the record. About Mansfield is best understood as a living local notebook, updated by people who know the names, streets, schools, and recurring concerns that make the city specific.
Made for: For Mansfield residents, parents, voters, business owners, school watchers, and local-history listeners who want city-specific news without waiting for regional coverage. It especially suits people who care about school board races, council decisions, community events, and practical local updates.
What sets it apart: About Mansfield combines headline-style local reporting with extended in-studio conversations and recurring community segments. Its strength is specificity: candidates, council members, school issues, construction updates, sports, arts, wellness, and Mansfield history all stay anchored to one city.
Our local newspaper went out of business the last week of 2019. Launched just one week later (January 2, 2020) About Mansfield fills the void of lack of news in Mansfield, Texas.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
About Mansfield makes city government, school-board races, and community history accessible through practical reporting and patient local interviews.
About Mansfield turns local public life into a magazine-style audio briefing, pairing civic headlines with studio interviews and recurring community segments.
A school board ballot, then a bourbon smash: your Mansfield curiosity gets homework and happy hour.
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The Mansfield ISD Place 7 incumbent explains how she measures student success beyond test scores.
Courtney Lackey-Wilson ties her bid for another term on the Mansfield ISD school board to her family's long connection with the district. In this Place 7 candidate interview, she describes student success through projects, presentations and volunteer work, alongside test scores…
Michelle Gooch discusses student readiness, special education and early reading in a Place 7 school board interview.
Place 7 school board candidate Michelle Gooch talks with Steve Cascio and Karen Marcucci about what she values in the district and where she would press for more support. She traces her approach to leadership to her parents and mentors.
A Mansfield news roundup pairs civic headlines with a council interview and spring break community notes.
About Mansfield's March 18 spring break edition starts with a firearm found in a parent's purse at the Summit High School entrance and a City Council election with unopposed candidates.
Floyd Moody remembers his Mansfield family, the walk to school with Mac and what his father knew of their history.
For Black History Month, Reverend Floyd Moody joins Steve Cascio on About Mansfield to talk about his family. Cascio brings up the Moody family's ties to education, the park system and Mansfield Cemetery, then asks how far back Moody can trace them.
Mansfield school news, community events and soccer share the week with a banker's account of local work.
About Mansfield moves through the week's news at the pace of the audio newspaper Steve Cascio calls it. Mansfield ISD's warning about threatening language among students sits alongside its reported top Texas ranking for college, career, and military readiness.
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The March 4 About Mansfield episode moves through a crowded local agenda. MISD trustees have hired a new superintendent, police have made an arrest in a Mansfield drug-related death investigation, and a Legacy graduate has performed on American Idol.
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Michelle Gooch says her run for Mansfield ISD Place 7 is about leadership, listening, and long-term decision-making, not campaign theater.
Courtney Lackey-Wilson says her Place 7 reelection run is rooted in being a Mansfield High Class of '89 graduate, a TRS retiree, and a longtime Mansfield ISD parent who wants to keep "consistency and working knowledge" on the board.
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An interview with Mentors Care Executive Director Dena Petty, discussing the organization's mission and impact.
Steve Cascio interviews Dena Petty, founder of Mentors Care, about her organization's mission to mentor youth in Mansfield.
Larry Brosh and Steve Cascio use a 24-year council retrospective to cover the hardest vote Brosh made, the city-manager change involving Clay Chandler, and Brosh's description of Chandler as a friend.
Reverend Floyd Moody tells About Mansfield's Steve Cascio about growing up in Mansfield, Texas, where his father was a sharecropper and the family ate what they could raise or find.
Steve Cascio interviews Mansfield City Councilman Larry Broseh, who says he is finishing his 24th year on council after first being elected in 1999 and returning in 2005.
Tim Roberts, Mansfield's tourism manager, lays out Arts Week from March 12-18 with over 25 events, including Kids Day, the Palm Branch Linear Trail mural unveiling, and the Far Best Theater's ghost hunt.
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This episode covers local Mansfield news and continues an interview with traveler Steve Binkley.
This episode of About Mansfield covers local news and features an interview with Mansfield resident Steve Binkley about his travels across the country.