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 4th annual KUAF/Fulbright Summer Chamber Music Festival returns Thursday with a free performance at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus.
For more information: FulbrightSummerMusic.uark.edu.
Director David Stricklin takes us into the vault to sample some personal papers and describe an array of manuscripts, maps, photos, genealogy – even art – archived at the Butler Center, located in Little Rock’s revitalized River Market District. Learn more at Butlercenter.org.
Bill Flanagan, a former caretaker of the cemetery, shares the history of Evergreen and the those who are buried there. For more information, click here.
Becca Martin Brown gives us three places to wander to today.
“Knuckle Down” by: Man Man
The Artist's Laboratory Theatre is a collective ensemble company that is dedicated to storytelling through the process of experimentation. Next week they will invite audiences to explore the Nature of Place with a performance throughout the landscapes of backstreets, lots, and structures of downtown Fayetteville. For more information visit: ArtLabTheatre.com.
