
Ozarks At Large

SFC Fluidics recently received a $1.5 million grant to further advance its development of the MD Analyzer. It's a device that aims to improve the monitoring of patients with severe brain injuries.
Enrollment numbers are in for Arkansas' Private Option insurance plan, and more younger people have enrolled than their elders. The National Labor Relations Board yesterday issued a complaint against Walmart for how the retailer allegedly handled employee protests in 13 states. And a Frank Lloyd Wright house has been acquired by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.


A Tom Bresh concert in the River Valley and the Waka Winter Classic in NWA are on Becca's music agenda this week.

Yesterday, Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration officials yesterday outlined Governor Mike Beebe's budget priorities to state legislators. Funding for the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid could be in danger after a special election for state Senate yesterday. And the University of Arkansas Fort Smith is in the process of developing its its first Master's degree program.

Broadway on Ice brings ice, professional skaters and a few tricks you won't see in the Winter Olympics.
State legislators are beginning to make plans for how to use a revenue surplus in the coming fiscal session of the Arkansas General Assembly. A special election today could affect the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid. Gubernatorial hopeful Asa Hutchinson calls for more computer science courses to be taught at the high school level. The Arkansas Department of Health urges people between the ages of 25 and 50 to get flu shots this year. And Fayetteville will look for a new superintendent after the current one announced her resignation.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Republican Attorney General runoff candidates discuss medical marijuana and the death penalty. Also, we take a look back at the desegregation of public swimming pools.
A sizable grant from the Walmart Foundation will help the NWA Children's Shelter continue to provide essential services for the area's children. The Benton County assessor's and collector's office in Gravette will soon move. The City of Fayetteville installs a charging station for electric vehicles, only the fifth in NWA. And a religious scholar weighs in on Pope Francis's recent comments in Brazil regarding homosexuals.
"Water of Life" by Wuthering Heights
The Arkansas Department of Human Service’s Medicaid Division is organizing a new "premium assistance" program. Arkansas is the only state to take an innovative market-based approach to Medicaid expansion under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Bill Halter has withdrawn from the race for the Democratic nomination for governor. Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, examines what the development means for the 2014 Arkansas political landscape.
From a folk music festival, to aspiring musicians playing on the square, running through the Boston Mountains and getting a free lunch box in Springdale, several events are happening soon throughout the area.
"Bronte" by Gotye
A quick preview of events at Rogers Historical Museum and the Fort Smith Museum of History.
"Little Boy Blue" by Robert Lockwood, Jr.