On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
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On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
Before the Amazeum broke ground on a permanent space this morning, we visit their tinkering studio to learn through experience. One of the country's most accomplished and most respected writers is coming to the Fayetteville Town Center Monday night.
While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we learn about traditional Native American ecological and cultural practices. Plus, we hear a roundtable discussion about recent political polling data for this year's statewide elections.
Around the World in 80 Days, and the story of a near lynching in 1930s Arkansas are the topics of TheatreSquared's ninth season, which was recently unveiled.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, gives us a preview of a weekend with just about everything.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, many local businesses have received their starts as a mobile vendor before moving into a bricks and mortar location. A long-time Fayetteville store is doing the opposite now. We talk with Sidney of Sidney's Emporium. Plus, the cycle of Artosphere: artworks of festivals past are removed to make way for the new. And we learn three things about the Peace Corps and more.
A new report places Benton and Washington counties as the two healthiest in the state. Plus the Hogeye Marathon returns and severe weather is a possibility over the next twenty-four hours.
"Let The Night" by Dirty Vegas
The new Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority which delivers Bull Shoals Lake water to towns and districts across Boone, Newton, and Searcy Counties is in trouble. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, several towns that signed on to the drinking water pact appear to be stricken by buyer’s remorse. (Correction: Marshall is in Searcy County and Lead Hill is in Boone County. In my report I erroneously reversed the towns’ locations.)
As he series with 2014 political candidates in Arkansas continues, Roby Brock has this conversation with Mike Ross.
"They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black" by Sufjan Stevens
A national report considers several different factors when determining the health of every county in the country.
The Arkansas Razorbacks Gymnastics team will host an NCAA Regional Championship April 5 in Fayetteville.
