Ozarks At Large

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large

Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Roby Brock discusses the final week of campaigning before primary election day and if Judge Chris Piazza's ruling striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage will have any impact on those races. Plus, a return to a favorite CD from several summers ago; can the music still evoke the same response? And, a report on a multi-million dollar campaign targeting the Southern closet.
During the first TEDx Fayetteville event held in March, Suri Surinder chose to talk about leadership during his eighteen minutes on stage. He says that good leadership can be measured by scientific means.
With Martha Shoffner's resignation as state treasurer still fresh, Governor Mike Beebe prepares to name a replacement. That's just one of the stories that Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas brings us in his weekly update of the last seven days of business and political news.
Doctor Edmond Harris, a professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas, talks with Christina Thomas about the special nature of the simple prime number five.
Here are the selections for our montage dedicated to the number five: "Beethoven's Fifth" as performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra George Brett (#5 for the Kansas City Royals) hits a home run in the 1984 All-Star Game The Vogues sing "Five O'clock World" How to use the fifth amendment in a congressional hearing School House Rock's take on the number five, as sung by native Arkansan Bob Dorough A scene from the Britich series MI-5 The Fifth Dimension sings "One Less Egg to Fry" Jach Nicholson orders breakfast his way in Five Easy Pieces Lou Bega's dance hig "Mambo No. 5" Jack Lord gives his famous line from Hawaii 5-0 Apologies to: Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, Brooks Robinson, the chemical element boron, Kurt Vonnegut, the Pentagon and Subway restaurants with their five-dollar-footlong jingle.
Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers says that Scooby and Shaggy will be in Fayetteville Tuesday and Wednesday.