Ozarks At Large

The Arkansas House yesterday defeated a bill that would continue funding for the state's Private Option Medicaid expansion, a recently established organization is encouraging more political participation for women in Arkansas, Fayetteville moves forward with its partnered purchase of land on Mt. Kessler, and Ft. Smith aldermen oppose seeking fines from Whirlpool.

As an African-American college freshman in 1958, Dorothy Marcy thought treatment she received was discrimination. Fifty years later she learned it was for her protection. More on Compassion Fayetteville can be found here.
The issue of net neutrality is back in the news and we ask our tech ambassador for some of the basics.
You can go to Russia to watch Olympic curling. You can go to Springdale to actually play.
The town of More Tomorrow, Belize could have a safe source of water soon with help from students at the University of Arkansas.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the Museum of Native American History in Bentonville may be a secret for now, but it won't be for long. We'll explain why, and we find out how distance education will have a larger footprint in the University of Arkansas School of Law next fall.
Teenswrite, a week-long writing workshop for teenagers, will begin Monday. The workshop will help teens tap into their creative selves.
“Everything is Everything” by Lauren Hill
The University of Arkansas is releasing an iTunes U channel (an iTunes channel for universities, museums, public libraries, etc.) to provide educational material in audio and video formats free of cost to the university community.
Johnathan Reeves from our content partner KASU in Jonesboro tells us why bed bug populations are on rise in the state.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers is suggesting we visit the Arts Center of the Ozarks for “The Drowsy Chaperone.” There are other great options for entertainment this weekend as well.
The Migration Policy Institute based in Washington D.C., with financial support from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation in Little Rock, commissioned Dr. Rafael Jimeno to conduct a scientific survey of Marshallese migrants who’ve settled in Springdale, the first study of it’s kind.