Becca tells us about Winslow Homer, the subject of an exhibition at the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum.
Ozarks At Large
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Marshallese migrants living in the United States are eligible to enroll in the Arkansas marketplace for private insurance. Jacqueline Froelich attended a health fair in Springdale designed to encourage islanders to sign up.
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas speaks to Rex Nelson about political candidates' proposals regarding taxes.Electronic onboard recorders are set to replace paper logs for truck drivers to make sure they aren't working more hours than they are allowed by federal law. The Arkansas Red Cross responds to storm damage across the Midwest. Unoccupied acreage at the site of a former Tyson plant in Fayetteville moves one step closer to redevelopment. And expansions are in the works that will bring more jobs to Springdale and Fort Smith.
On this edition of Ozarks…a spare budget, a stark story and a love of Arkansas locations are ingredients for a new movie called Come Morning. The northwest Arkansas premier is in a few weeks and we'll hear from the film’s creator. Plus a preview of GIS Day…how creating maps has changed in just the past thirty years…and how the earth changed 10-thousand years ago. Michael Jochim offers a preview of his talk tonight about the end of the last ice age and how the planet changed.
Becca Martin Brown says that there are plenty of opportunities to catch a concert coming up in the surrounding region.
A movie that was shot in Kingsland, Ark. will make its NWA premiere Dec. 5 at Rogers Malco Towne Cinema. All parties involved in a decades-long desegregation case in central Arkansas formally accept a deal to settle the litigation. A new report ranks Arkansas among the best in the U.s. for using technology to improve educational attainment. The Rogers Historical Museum gets a boost for its expansion project with General Improvement Funds from the state. And the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department debuts a new interactive website to give Arkansas drivers a heads-up on construction zones in the state.
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, Downtown Bentonville launches its new Notes at Night series, and Candy Lee stops by the studio to discuss and perform some songs off her new album.
Legislators may be getting closer to a compromise on the state's private option, and former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner appears in court for mail fraud charges.
"February" by Film School
Michael Tilley from The City Wire talks about an increase in home sales in January and the approaching deadline for filing for political office.
Arkansas Marshall Islanders and dignitaries are gathering at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock this evening to commemorate the 60th anniversary of “Castle Bravo”— a hydrogen bomb test conducted March 1st 1954 on Bikini Atoll. It was the largest nuclear weapon ever tested by the United States. Jacqueline Froelich talks with an event organizer as well as Marshall Island’s Rongelap Senator Kenneth Kedi about the history--and consequences.
Arkansas has had high rates of teen pregnancy for decades, but there is reason for some optimism for the future.
"February Air" by Lights
Becca Martin Brown, with Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has the plans for Mardi Gras in northwest Arkansas all mapped out.
