
Ozarks At Large

Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gives us a preview of the craft fair weekend and more.
A world champion BBQ team will be crowned in Bentonville, mental health discussed in Fayetteville and sports all over the place this week.

Efforts to keep a dramatic spike in insurance rates for Arkansas public school employees are on the top of a special session agenda.

Legislators are dealing with insurance rates for public school employees and residents of Harrison are dealing with a controversial billboard.


Pat Hazell, creator of the one-person show The Wonder Bread Years, talks about the art of creating comedy as a group. The Wonder Bread Years will be on stage at Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville next week.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, January 6, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, an assistant professor of landscape architecture works to preserve a cemetery in Rowher, Arkansas. We also preview a free credit workshop.
Becca Martin Brown offers a survey of some of the farmers’ markets now open.
Our monthly survey of theater opportunities lets us sing in the rain, go barefoot in the park and sing with the little mermaid.
"Meet Me in St. Louis" by Charlie Hunter
Governor Beebe says that tax cuts placed in next year's state budget may need to be revisited in future years, Representative Greg Leding, Arkansas' House Majority Leader, says that despite partisanship in the state capitol, state legislators were able to pull together by the end of the legislative session last week. Apartment recycling may get some change this year in Fayetteville if a state grant is approved. And the Sierra Club plans to mark the one month anniversary of the Mayflower oil spill.
"Stay" by Rihanna
Roby Brock of our content partner Talk Business Arkansas gives us his weekly look back at business and politics news from the past seven days.
The University of Arkansas System changed health plan administrators this year to save costs and expand coverage. But certain mental health care providers in Northwest Arkansas claim the new plan discriminates against them.