Ozarks At Large
On this Veteran’s Day edition of Ozarks, Christina Thomas talks to Warren Blaylock. He lives in Alma and he'll be part of a special Veteran's Day event in Crawford County tonight. He was a medic in World War II and served during the D-Day invasion and at the Battle of the Bulge. And some of the sounds from a ceremony Saturday at the National Cemetery in Fayetteville as additional land was added to the location. We also have Roby Brock's look back at the week in business and more.Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says two great storytellers will share a stage soon in northwest Arkansas.
Warren Blaylock is a resident of Alma, but he served as a medic in the 67th Evacuation Hospital during World War II. Tonight, he will be the featured speaker during a special Veterans Day edition of the Crawford County Chronicles' speaker series at the Drennen-Scott Historic Site in Van Buren.
With another busy week ahead we offer some highlights of a packed calendar.
Link: As promised, here is the long web address for the UAFS nominations:
www.uafs.edu/adp.american-democracy-project
Link: As promised, here is the long web address for the UAFS nominations:
www.uafs.edu/adp.american-democracy-project
A big project scheduled for eastern Arkansas has hit some snags. Roby Brock has the biggest news from the week’s business and political circles.Saturday, the Fayetteville National Cemetery added more than two acres to its footprint.
The Joint Legislative Audit Committee in Little Rock approved an audit of the state's recent expansion of Medicaid through the Private Option. Governor Beebe issues a feeler for more money to fix systemic problems with the state's Department of Community Corrections. And Entergy Arkansas trims trees this month to help prevent more winter power outages.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the effort to create Nerdies, a project designed to give young people not interested in sports a place to explore other hobbies and passions. We'll also visit a piece of land in Fayetteville that will soon be a teaching farm, letting young students get a hands-on approach to growing and eating healthy foods. Plus Christian Howes, one of the most critically acclaimed jazz musicians performing talks to Robert Ginsburg about Howes's upcoming concert at Walton Arts Center. And what's really happening in our brain when we listen to that music we really like again . . . and again . . .and again. We'll talk briefly to Lisa Margulis about her new book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind.
William Shatner is bringing his one-man show to Fayetteville and Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers talked to him.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, while there won't be a red carpet, Eureka Springs will recognize achievement in independent film this weekend. Plus, an exhibit allowing patrons to get hands-on with some of the first pages and books ever printed. And, Becca Martin Brown talks haggis.
A proposal to cut maximum unemployment benefit payouts moves forward in the Arkansas Legislature, as do discussions regarding expansion to the state's Medicaid system. And, the proposal for the state to provide several million dollars in financing for the Big River Steel project passes the state House, though representatives still need to sign off on a budget bill for the proposal to be final
April 15th is just around the corner and many of us are scrambling to file our income tax returns. To help out, the AARP Foundation has set up seasonal tax preparation centers across the country. We take you to a Fayetteville center to see how it works. To find an AARP Foundation tax aid center near you, click here.
"Henry the Fifth" by Brass Band Lutzelfuh
Dr. Donald Steinkraus says that insects use sound to attract other insects, much in the same way that public radio uses sound to attract listeners.
Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Media gives us the heads up on when to catch Anything Goes, running through the end of the week at Walton Arts Center.
Patricia Limerick is considered a vanguard of the "new western history." She says that many questions should be asked when trying to balance living in the west with current attitudes toward energy consumption.
"Henry Portraits" by Anthony Phillips
