The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.Ozarks At Large
The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.Arkansas looks to change licensing requirements for child care facilities throughout the state. We look at the potential changes and the effects they could have on providers in the area.
Ahead on Ozarks, can e-cigarettes help smokers reduce their nicotine consumption? More than 20 vapor shops have recently opened in northwest Arkansas alone. We take a look at the phenomenon, and Johnathan Story talks about his upcoming concert in Fayetteville, and sits down at the Mary Rumsey Baker Steinway piano in our studio.Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, directs us to performance art and fireworks this weekend.
Our history doctor, Bill Smith, explains the relationship between politics and money is an American tradition.
More than twenty Northwest Arkansas specialty shops sell electronic cigarettes, both disposable and rechargeable. The popular devices deliver a smooth warm nicotine-laced white vapor in variety strengths and flavors. We visit the Velvet Vapor in Rogers and also talk to an Arkansas Department of Health tobacco specialist about pending regulations and potential risks associated with “vaping.”One Arkansas senator is pressing election officials to resolve issues with the state's voter ID law. Other legislators are pushing to prevent the state lottery commission from implementing video gambling games throughout the state. The FASTER Arkansas committee continues its push for changes in state law to allow public schools to connect to an existing, state-funded fiber optic network. And one Eureka Springs alderman is trying to move forward a decades-long debate on what to do about parking in that city's downtown area.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the National Veterans Golden Age Games are set to take over Fayetteville and the region this weekend; we speak with one 79-year-old Vietnam veteran who hopes to win in his competitions, and we speak with an Arkansas elder who decided to obtain his GED many, many years after his high school years had passed. Plus, while many eyes are on the happenings at the World Cup, we attend a sports match of a different nature, polo, in Bentonville.The Northwest Arkansas Polo Club's season is underway in Bentonville.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, as many prepare for Fourth of July in backyards or fields of fireworks, the ticks are waiting: a new tick-borne illness has been discovered in the South. And The Cate Brothers release a new album, more than thirty years after it was originally recorded.
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has details regarding the eagle watch tours in Rogers. There’s also some music playing inside the Breedlove Auditorium on the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith campus tonight.
Tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m., Nilson Matta’s Brazilian Voyage Trio will perform at Second Street Live in Fort Smith.
“Isotope” by Joe Henderson
Columnist Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com discusses the artists and albums that could make it to the Grammy nominations this year.
Our tech expert Tyrel Denison discusses the different digital music services now available to us.
A research scientist at the University of Arkansas is conducting a year-long study of two-problem plagued Beaver Lake swim beach areas, with funding from the Arkansas Water Resources Center.
“Savoy” by Gene Ammons
