A conceptual photography exhibit in Mullins Library on the UA campus explores the connections people have to built space and their homes. The works by Sabine Schmidt will be on display through May.
Ozarks At Large
Our content partner KUAR in Little Rock is interviewing Arkansas' gubernatorial candidates. Today's conversation is with Lynette Bryant. An extended version of the interview is available here.
On any given day as many as 4,000 Arkansas children are in state custody, having been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. Until their case is settled, children are placed provisionally with a relative, foster home, or children’s shelter. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, a new state rule now allows emergency placement with “Fictive Kin.”
Web Exclusive: An Oasis for Children in Crisis
Web Exclusive: An Oasis for Children in Crisis
A decision on whether to close a street to vehicles in Springdale by that city's aldermen will help lay the path for the Razorback Greenway through the city. More than 6,000 voters cast ballots yesterday in the first day of early voting in Arkansas' primary and judicial elections. And the University of Arkansas announces who its next lobbyist to local, state and federal legislators will be.
Ahead on Ozarks, we bid farewell to the Arkansas Honor Flight program. Also, the music of Joyce Green in latest installment of Arkansongs, Roby Brock has his weekly business and political news update, and more.
Monica Ramirez, deputy director for Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, is working to end sexual harassment and sexual assault against farmworker and low-wage immigrant women.
A reunion has been scheduled for Sept. 27 for past and present members of the Ozark-based Charlie Battery as well as their dependents and survivors.
Late last week, two elder World War II veterans joined a group of corporate supporters and friends to bid a formal farewell to Arkansas Honor Flights.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, a conversation with Arkansas Living Treasure Robert Runyan. Also, the president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands pays a visit to Springdale.
Our local food ambassador Teresa Maurer returns to tell us about a program that will allow some customers of the Farmers' Market to double their money during the month of March.
"Saturday Evening" by Big Bill Broonzy
Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie "Prince" Billy made a gorgeous album of duets when they released The Letting Go in 2006. Both children of the 1970s, they grew up hearing the close harmonies of the Everly Brothers on the radio. In What the Brothers Sang, just released on Drag City, the duo pays tribute to these early superstars of rock and pay homage to the great American songbook.
Link: The Making of What the Brothers Sang
Officials with the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration talk about the potential for making up federal funds lost to sequester cuts, and two public transit services team up in Northwest Arkansas to more completely serve the University of Arkansas community.
“A Letter To Elise” by The Cure
The Arkansas General Assembly is considering passage of a new Voter ID law that will require government-issued photo identification to both register and to vote. Advocates claim it will suppress fraud, but some opponents believe it will suppress progressive voting. We talk with an election rights expert about the measure, as well as how Voter ID laws are trending nationally.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas looks at the top legislative and business stories from the last seven days.
"Bugs" by Charles Mingus