Broadway on Ice brings ice, professional skaters and a few tricks you won't see in the Winter Olympics.
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Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says there is still more to be learned about the Stieglitz collection at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Though Arkansas is still 30% above the rest of the nation, the state is finally seeing declining rates when it comes to new lung cancer diagnoses and moralities due to lung cancer. We hear from Dr. Gary Wheeler with the Arkansas Department of Health.
State legislators are beginning to make plans for how to use a revenue surplus in the coming fiscal session of the Arkansas General Assembly. A special election today could affect the state's Private Option expansion of Medicaid. Gubernatorial hopeful Asa Hutchinson calls for more computer science courses to be taught at the high school level. The Arkansas Department of Health urges people between the ages of 25 and 50 to get flu shots this year. And Fayetteville will look for a new superintendent after the current one announced her resignation.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Springdale claims the lead in job creation for Arkansas, plus a story of moving from small-town Arkansas to post-punk fame: this week’s edition of Arkansongs highlights the career of Beth Ditto…and in about six minutes, an update on the rollout of the Affordable Care Act in Arkansas now that the calendar has turned.
Sabrina Billings, an Assistant Professor with the department of African and African American Studies at the University of Arkansas, has spent years researching her new book Language and Globalization in the Making of a Tanzanian beauty Queen.
When it comes to short term job growth, Springdale is leading the pack in Arkansas, witnessing 7500 new jobs in the last four years. We speak with Bill Rogers VP of Communications with Springdale Chamber of Commerce to find. Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers previews the latest from Shiloh Museum in Springdale.
The first work week of 2014 didn't suffer from a lack of business news.
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, several Arkansas towns have been identified by the University of Arkansas to participate in a sustainability report card program. We speak with Michelle Halsel, managing director of the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas to find out about the program. Plus, the idea of Southern Art History; how we talk about it depends on how we define it.
Next time you plan to venture into Eureka Springs, climb aboard Café Roulant. The trolley, fitted with linen covered tables and fine china, offers diners locally produced cuisine and miles of historic sights enroute. Café Roulant is open for winter tourism, and is now taking reservations for Valentines Day.
There's at least one fan in the house. Becca Martin Brown has more on this Walton Arts Center show.
"White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane
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.
"Ultraviolet" by Lights & Motion
Arkansas Democrat Gazette columnist John Brummett talks to Talk Business Arkansas' Roby Brock about the private option's chances for survival.
Economist Kathy Deck says that the size of the area directly impacts both the actual and perceived growth in the northwest Arkansas economy.
"Sarasota" by The New Mendicants
