Our history doctor, Bill Smith, is back to take issue with the idea that EVERYTHING is repeated history.
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Last weekend, Ozark Natural Foods hosted the inaugural Tour de Farms.Web Exclusive: Images From the Tour de Farms
First Christian Church Disciples of Christ will host an event Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of its building.
A few weeks after the devastating April 27th EF-4 tornado in Faulkner, Randolph, White and Pulaski counties killed 15 people, a lesser storm swept through the region. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, this one may have caused a possible and rare land spout north of Ozark. (Photo: two types of land spouts over Texas, courtesy NWS)
Roby Brock from Talk Business & Politics talks to Speaker of the House Davy Carter about same-sex marriage in Arkansas.Only one statewide runoff election will be held next month after yesterday's primary elections, which decided the Democratic and Republican candidates for most of the races for state constitutional offices. One potential ballot measure that is just getting started with passing petitions aims to make all of arkansas wet when it comes to alcohol sales. And, the Jones Center gets another multi-million dollar gift.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: it's primary election day in Arkansas, and Roby Brock talks to three Republicans who are vying for their party's nomination for attorney general. Plus, the City of Fayetteville is looking toward the future as Baby Boomers continue to age. A new project wants the city to become an age-friendly place. And, in our monthly series on technology, we visit the VA hospital in Fayetteville, where new solar arrays aim to make the facility more sustainable.
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Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, a float along the Buffalo River nearly a year after a hog farm started business near the waterway, and a brand new water park in Siloam Springs is almost ready for the public. And speaking of being ready for the public, the Walmart AMP in Rogers last night had its public debut. Blake Shelton was the first headliner to perform in the new venue, but a few days earlier, we got a sneak preview of the facility.
Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers congratulates you on surviving Friday the 13th. Then, she lists all that’s happening this weekend.
Arkansas businesses can benefit by exporting goods; the University of Arkansas’ women’s basketball team loses to Mississippi; and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
“Friday the 13th” by The Ionious Monk
Bradford Anderson, an actor on General Hospital, is in northwest Arkansas to participate in the 40/29 Northwest Arkansas Women’s Living Expo.
More information is available on www.womenslivingexpo.com/NWA2012.
Theme from General Hospital
Dan Craft, special projects reporter from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, visits KUAF to discuss a story by reporter Misty Gittings who’s following a legislative repayment issue in Bentonville.
Rhonda Vanlue Gray and fifteen others defined lives of generations of minority students to come by being the first African-American students at Alma Public Schools in 1964. She and other former students who helped integrate schools in Fort Smith, Charleston and Alma will be honored at “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration of Unsung Heroes” event at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith on January 18.
“Spiritual” by Charlie Hayden and Hank Jones
