Ozarks At Large
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas talks to GOP political consultant Clint Reed and left-leaning blogger Michael Cook about Arkansas Lt. Governor's race.The Arkansas House yesterday defeated a bill that would continue funding for the state's Private Option Medicaid expansion, a recently established organization is encouraging more political participation for women in Arkansas, Fayetteville moves forward with its partnered purchase of land on Mt. Kessler, and Ft. Smith aldermen oppose seeking fines from Whirlpool.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas talks to two Republican members of the House about the private option. As an African-American college freshman in 1958, Dorothy Marcy thought treatment she received was discrimination. Fifty years later she learned it was for her protection. More on Compassion Fayetteville can be found here.
The issue of net neutrality is back in the news and we ask our tech ambassador for some of the basics.
You can go to Russia to watch Olympic curling. You can go to Springdale to actually play.
The town of More Tomorrow, Belize could have a safe source of water soon with help from students at the University of Arkansas.
Roiled a century ago by race riots, Harrison is taking pragmatic steps to repair its reputation, and has become culturally diverse, due to the presence of the Harrison Community Task Force on Race Relations. Still, as Jacqueline Froelich reports, a few local
white patriots have come out to mark the town as their territory. Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville may be a secret for now, but it won't be for long. We'll explain why, and we find out how distance education will have a larger footprint in the University of Arkansas School of Law next fall.
The Bike Route is one of the sponsors of LifeSource International's Hike or Bike Against Hunger event. The bike shop owner offers advice on selecting and caring for a bicycle.
Here the group performs the song "Quarter to Four" from inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
Crystal Lake Farms in Decatur uses old and new methods to raise chickens.
"Chickens in Love" by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Becca Martin Brown wears us out with details of how performers will soar through the air during the production of The Wizard of Oz.
Here are the ten clips from this morning's salute to beds and bedding materials:
1. The Australian group Midnight Oil sings its biggest American hit, Beds are Burning.
2. John Lennon speaks from the John and Yoko "bed in" in Montreal.
3. Music from the (somewhat odd) Disney movie, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
4. Linda Blair's bed levitates in The Exorcist.
5. Gromit forces Wallace out of bed in The Wrong Trousers.
6. The Bangles sing My Side of the Bed.
7. Doris Day and Rock Hudson spar in Pillow Talk.
8. David Jack's version of Five Little Monkeys.
9. Florence and the Machine sing Hospital Beds.
10. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks discuss a famous quote from The Godfather in the movie You've Got Mail.
at end of show, "The Break Through" by Hank Mobley
