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.
Michael Tilley from our content partner www.thecitywire.com discusses the increase in sales tax collections and building permits.
Author Allyson Lewis visited KUAF to discuss her book “The 7 Minute Solution: Creating a Life with Meaning 7 Minutes at a Time” with Kyle Kellams.
“Headphones” by David Kitt
A gallery talk at Crystal Bridges, a Harry Potter movie at the Boone County Library, “Super 8” at the Fayetteville Public Library, an X-Men movie at Rogers Public Library, a choir performance at Har-Ber High School, or a show by country rapper Colt Ford at George’s tonight ought to keep everyone busy in the family. Becca Bacon Martin has the details.
Stage combat master Bret Yount, a McIlroy Family visiting professor at the University of Arkansas, talks about different styles of theatrical combat. Listen to the entire conversation next Tuesday.
“The Adventures of Robin Hood” by Eric Wolfgang Korngold
A few area school districts are among 15 included in Governor Mike Beebe’s “STEM Works" initiative; Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site offers transportation grants to reimburse schools for field trips; and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
