The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.Ozarks At Large
The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.Arkansas looks to change licensing requirements for child care facilities throughout the state. We look at the potential changes and the effects they could have on providers in the area.
Ahead on Ozarks, can e-cigarettes help smokers reduce their nicotine consumption? More than 20 vapor shops have recently opened in northwest Arkansas alone. We take a look at the phenomenon, and Johnathan Story talks about his upcoming concert in Fayetteville, and sits down at the Mary Rumsey Baker Steinway piano in our studio.Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, directs us to performance art and fireworks this weekend.
Our history doctor, Bill Smith, explains the relationship between politics and money is an American tradition.
More than twenty Northwest Arkansas specialty shops sell electronic cigarettes, both disposable and rechargeable. The popular devices deliver a smooth warm nicotine-laced white vapor in variety strengths and flavors. We visit the Velvet Vapor in Rogers and also talk to an Arkansas Department of Health tobacco specialist about pending regulations and potential risks associated with “vaping.”One Arkansas senator is pressing election officials to resolve issues with the state's voter ID law. Other legislators are pushing to prevent the state lottery commission from implementing video gambling games throughout the state. The FASTER Arkansas committee continues its push for changes in state law to allow public schools to connect to an existing, state-funded fiber optic network. And one Eureka Springs alderman is trying to move forward a decades-long debate on what to do about parking in that city's downtown area.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the National Veterans Golden Age Games are set to take over Fayetteville and the region this weekend; we speak with one 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who hopes to win in his competitions, and we speak with an Arkansas elder who decided to obtain his GED many, many years after his high school years had passed. Plus, while many eyes are on the happenings at the World Cup, we attend a sports match of a different nature, polo, in Bentonville.The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, how material seized by the police end up at auction. Also, the fate of undocumented young people who make it to Northwest Arkansas.
Senator John Boozman is still in the hospital after heart surgery earlier this week, but his condition continues to improve, and Fayetteville firefighters prepare to collect money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
“Ark. La. Tex.” by Brian Blade
Roby Brock with our content partner Talk Business Arkansas leads a roundtable discussion about this year’s US Senate race in Arkansas.
The University of Arkansas' Department of English is offering a showcase of all the ways the department touches the campus and the state.
"Xanadu" by The Ghost of the Saber Tooth Tiger
A community concert band celebrates 25 years at the Arts Center of the Ozarks on Saturday.
"In The Good 'Ole Summertime" by John Phillip Sousa
Tim Muldoon, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has developed an endoscopic microscope capable of producing sub-cellular images of tissue in real time. Web Exclusive: An Extended Interview with Tim Muldoon
