
Ozarks At Large


Michael K. Honey's new book Sharecropper's Troubadour gives us details of the life of John L. Handcox.



The state Department of Workforce Services releases March unemployment numbers for Arkansas, though they remain slightly above the national rate. Plus, the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage will either be reaffirmed or struck down in the coming weeks.


As you Like It will be performed by the University of Arkansas, and an Earth Day Celebration is just around the corner. Becca Martin Brown has What’s Up.
Here are the ten clips used in our salute to jumping:
- “Jump Around” House of Pain
- White Men Can’t Jump
- “Jumpin Jive” Joe Jackson
- Dirty Harry
- “Jumpin Jack Flash” Rolling Stones
- 21 Jump Street
- “Jump in Line” from Beetlejuice
- Divergent
- “Jump” Van Halen
- Tony Danza on Sesame Street
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: in an effort to facilitate further business success in Arkansas, the Arkansas Economic Development Commission has launched a new website, ArkansasFavorsTheBold.com. We'll have a conversation with Grant Tennille, that organization's executive director. Plus, the Fourth Congressional District, geographically the largest in the state is in the midst of a heated Republican race this primary season. We have part one in a series of conversations with each candidate.
Stewart Huff will perform twice tonight at the UARK Bowl in Fayetteville. Before he came to town he talked to us about his style of comedy.
Enrollment numbers are down at NorthWest Arkansas Community College, revenue is down for in Arkansas, as are drought numbers for the state.
"Pot City" by Cowboy Bebop
This November, Arkansas voters will decide on legalizing medicinal marijuana. California was among the first states to allow it, also by voter initiative, in 1996. We talk with the manager of an Oakland, California dispensary for insight into this emerging and controversial medical industry as well as state and national advocates.
“A Good Song” by Thursday
Mara Leveritt, author of Devil’s Knot and The Boys on the Tracks, will participate in Fayetteville Public Library’s event called Ozark Writers Live. She talked to us about her work and more.
For more information about Mara, visit www.maraleveritt.com.For more about the Ozark Writers Live event, visit the FPL website
“Tying A Knot In The Devil” by Norman and Nancy Blake
Becca Martin Brown says the weekend gets an early start in the fall and she has suggestions of what to do to get ready for the first full weekend of the month.