
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.
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.
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.”
Our history doctor, Bill Smith, explains the relationship between politics and money is an American tradition.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, directs us to performance art and fireworks this weekend.
Jonathan Story sits down at the Mary Baker Rumsey Steinway.