
Ozarks At Large

Becca offers help for Valentine's Day outings with this list of regional visual arts and museum events.
Economist Kathy Deck says that the size of the area directly impacts both the actual and perceived growth in the northwest Arkansas economy.

Yesterday's release from the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics shows broad-based job growth in northwest Arkansas, sales tax revenue went up for the big four cities of northwest Arkansas in November. NWACC decides to buy land from the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad. The education given by the U of A is again described as a good value by the Princeton Review. A teaching farm in Fayetteville gets a grant from Ozark Natural Foods. And Arkansas' newest state senator doubles down on not renewing the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid.



Hobbs State park has a lecture series about the Ozarks that stretches deep into 2014.
Residents who live and/or work in Rogers can contribute to a new plan for the area by filling out a survey at RogersLowellVision.com.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, March 14, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, Becca Martin Brown of Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gives us a list of St. Patrick's Day events happening this weekend, and we have a preview of the William S. Paley Collection exhibit at Crystal Bridges. We also learn about the latest plans for the new high school in Bentonville.
During the first TEDx Fayetteville event held in March, Suri Surinder chose to talk about leadership during his eighteen minutes on stage. He says that good leadership can be measured by scientific means.
With Martha Shoffner's resignation as state treasurer still fresh, Governor Mike Beebe prepares to name a replacement. That's just one of the stories that Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas brings us in his weekly update of the last seven days of business and political news.
Doctor Edmond Harris, a professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas, talks with Christina Thomas about the special nature of the simple prime number five.
Here are the selections for our montage dedicated to the number five:
"Beethoven's Fifth" as performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
George Brett (#5 for the Kansas City Royals) hits a home run in the 1984 All-Star Game
The Vogues sing "Five O'clock World"
How to use the fifth amendment in a congressional hearing
School House Rock's take on the number five, as sung by native Arkansan Bob Dorough
A scene from the Britich series MI-5
The Fifth Dimension sings "One Less Egg to Fry"
Jach Nicholson orders breakfast his way in Five Easy Pieces
Lou Bega's dance hig "Mambo No. 5"
Jack Lord gives his famous line from Hawaii 5-0
Apologies to: Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, Brooks Robinson, the chemical element boron, Kurt Vonnegut, the Pentagon and Subway restaurants with their five-dollar-footlong jingle.
Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers says that Scooby and Shaggy will be in Fayetteville Tuesday and Wednesday.