Ozarks At Large

As children, we learn you can know the age of a tree if you count the rings inside its trunk. What we might not learn is that those tree rings contain the history of each of those years.

Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas has updates on new earnings reports, state revenues, and more.

Mike Ross and Bill Halter talk Medicaid at the Delta Grassroots Conference, as does Governor Mike Beebe, but Beebe also vaunts work by the state's Department of Higher Education in getting more students into college. And Hillcrest Towers in Fayetteville will be getting a facelift after receiving a sizable federal grant.

Here is information about today’s montage dedicated to the number five:

1. Beethoven’s Fifth as performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
2. George Brett (#5 for the Kansas City Royals) hits a home run in the 1984 All-Star Game.
3. The Vogues sing "Five O’clock World."
4. How to use the fifth amendment in a congressional hearing.
5. School House Rock’s take on the number five, as sung by native Arkansan Bob Dorough.
6. A scene from the British series MI-5.
7. The Fifth Dimension sings "One Less Egg to Fry."
8. Jack Nicholson orders breakfast his way in Five Easy Pieces.
9. Lou Bega’s dance hit "Mambo No. 5."
10. Jack Lord gives his famous line from Hawaii 5-0.

Apologies to: Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio, Brooks Robinson, the chemical element boron, Kurt Vonnegut, the Penatagon and Subway restaurants and their five-dollar footlong jingle.