Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin faces a lawsuit after allegedly failing to comply with the state's Freedom of Information Act. Governor Mike Beebe calls on more lawmakers to think less about slashing taxes and more about providing essential services and projects for Arkansans. And a new partnership between the Clinton School of Public Service, Walton College of Business and Rockfish Interactive hopes to encourage students to pursue public service through entrepreneurship.
Ozarks At Large
On this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we learn more about the number pi, albeit casually. Plus, we meet Penelope the pet skunk, and we visit Springdale's hidden treasure.
During a recent visit to the studio, Don't Stop Please performed an original song called Henry and the Great Salt Lake.We expect to see fine art we go one the region's art museums, or walk into many of the art galleries, even when buying our morning joe at the corner coffee shop, but what about as we walk down the hall to our office? Tyson Team Members see everything from Warhol to Remington at the corporation's home office. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas has more.
Since the caves we've learned to avoid, at all cost, the stinkiest of Earth's creatures: the skunk. But one young Carroll County couple has bypassed all instinct to take abandoned and injured skunks into their home.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Don’t Stop Please is a band recently re-located to northwest Arkansas from central Arkansas. We asked them to bring all of their instruments to our studio. And some other musicians…young people involved with the Drum Corps International spend all day practicing, all night performing…and somewhere, somehow some time sleeping. Christina Thomas catches up with one DCI ensemble as they make their way through our part of the world.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, what's in a name? We learn where one local park gets its name, plus Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of a cat, Becca Martin Brown tells us what's up, and birdman Joe Neal takes a poll.
Tamara Zeller Buck from content partner KRCU travels to what is left of a small town in southeastern Missouri and meets former residents who have started a campaign to relocate the community of Pinhook.
We begin a monthly series to find out why places, things, parks, and landmarks in the region are called what they are called with a visit to Fayetteville's oldest park.
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with Congressman Tom Cotton and the Mission Clinic of Berryville celebrates its 20th anniversary.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, April 21, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, Mercy Hospital continues its commitment to sustainability with a new recycling program. Also a conversation with the author of “Sharecropper's Troubadour.”
Rebuilding Together NWA completed the construction of a new home for a veteran and his family.
”Sunspots” by Bob Mould
The City of Fayetteville encourages business owners to prepare to register their businesses with the city to obtain a license. Jesse Fulcher, current planner for the city, gives details on the registration process and its benefits.
For more information, visit www.accessfayetteville.org or call 575-8308.
By treaty, Marshallese citizens may travel to, even live in the U.S. But now, certain U.S. lawmakers, including Senator John Boozman, have requested the State Department establish a screening protocol.
“Avalon” by Randy Newman
The U.S. Marshall's Museum receives a financial gift and the Razorback baseball team's season comes to a close.
If you need to recover from all of the fun you've had at Wakarusa, Becca says there is plenty of live music in the region tonight.
