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The Arkansas Senate yesterday passed the Private Option appropriation, while the House again defeated the bill. Fayetteville Public Schools gets a waiver to hold classes on Memorial Day, and new public transit routes are coming to Rogers.
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Students from Woodland Junior High School prepare to head to Little Rock for the Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl Association state championship on Saturday.
Jim Belushi cancels on northwest Arkansas, and Matt McClure is nominated for a James Beard Award.
Michael Dorcas, herpetologist and professor at Davidson College in North Carolina, will speak this afternoon at 4:00 in Room 604 of the Science Building on the University of Arkansas campus. One of his areas of expertise is the problem of invasive Burmese pythons in southern Florida.
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The Arkansas House yesterday again voted down the appropriation for the Private Option, a date is set for a lawsuit challenging the state's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, the NWA Council calculates when the region will be home to half-a-million people, and Walmart plans to push more small stores in the coming year.
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Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, May 11, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the duo Still on the Hill talks about their new album, and how Beaver Lake inspired the songs. Plus, we learn about how Gunderpickles started with a family recipe, and we honor the 100th anniversary of Mother's Day in our Sunday Morning Montage, a song from Cletus Got Shot and more.
Cooperative Emergency Outreach volunteers continue to help their clients as the search begins for a new location for the agency.
University of Arkansas students, staff, faculty and administration held a brief observance of the September 11 attacks this morning.
"New Orleans Instrumental" by R.E.M.
Roby Brock from our content partner TalkBusiness.net recently caught up with Grant Tennille, Arkansas’ top economic development chief to discuss tax cuts.
“Here and Heaven” by Yo Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile.
Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers gives us some out-of-town entertainment suggestions today.