Mercy Health used an innovative walking program to become one of the healthiest workplaces in the country.
Ozarks At Large
A roundup of events and news for the next few weeks include an alternative way to deliver a Valentine.
Rural and urban public access trails are trending across America. And a new sector of professional trail building firms have emerged to meet demand. Jacqueline Froelich bundles up and goes cycling on a blustery afternoon in Bentonville, with the founder and foreman of Progressive Trail Design based in Fayetteville.
Roby Brock, from Talk Business Arkansas, talks to Rex Nelson about what 2014 might bring for Arkansas politics.An administrative law judge with the Arkansas Public Service Commission on Friday ordered SWEPCO to proceed on its proposed plan to build a massive new power transmission line through portions of northwest Arkansas. Also, Governor Mike Beebe says that recent cost analyses of operating the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid justifies the program's passage during last year's session of the state legislature. And the state Attorney General's office warns residents about rapid-refund tax providers.
Ahead on Ozarks, a conversation with young adult author An Na. Also, we learn what it takes to become a police officer.
We speak with An Na, author of A Step From Heaven, a book that was awarded the Michael L. Prince Award when it was published a decade ago. Critics and reviewers commended the book's characters for speaking like a child without being too precocious or condescending. The author will speak in Fayetteville later this month.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we visit the kitchen of Jen Lewis, take a spin in a state-run clinic that aids veterans in rural communities, and we meet a recovering opiate addict who has found hope with methadone.
Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor says he has no problems with President Barack Obama’s budget, but reaching a consensus is always a long and arduous process.
“Lorge” by El Ten Eleven
An Auschwitz survivor and a Mengele twin Eva Kor will be on the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith campus tomorrow evening to talk about her story of surviving ghastly experiments conducted by Joseph Mengele and ultimately forgiving him.
“Casualties of War” by Yo Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has more on the third annual Artigras Art Show in Eureka Springs.
Roby Brock from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net examines business news of the last seven days, including Arkansas budget matters.
PBS will premiere its four-hour, two-part documentary “Clinton” tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m. The documentary examines the life and political career of former Arkansas Governor and the 42nd President of the United States William Jefferson Clinton.
To find out how the use of a White House photographer's images changed the visual quality of the documentary, click here.
“Martin Van Buren”
