Solar energy installation is on the rise in Arkansas—a solar rich state. But unlike other solar states, Arkansas lacks incentives for solar development as well as utility standards. Add to that, this year, renewable energy advocates will face organized opposition from carbon producers, who don’t want them on the grid.Ozarks At Large
Solar energy installation is on the rise in Arkansas—a solar rich state. But unlike other solar states, Arkansas lacks incentives for solar development as well as utility standards. Add to that, this year, renewable energy advocates will face organized opposition from carbon producers, who don’t want them on the grid.Though Arkansas is still 30% above the rest of the nation, the state is finally seeing declining rates when it comes to new lung cancer diagnoses and moralities due to lung cancer. We hear from Dr. Gary Wheeler with the Arkansas Department of Health.
Today's week in review looks back at the school-related news we've aired over the past seven days.
On this edition of Ozarks, the efforts continue to place a statue of General William O. Darby on the edge of Fort Smith. And the work is just beginning to move a Frank Lloyd Wright house from New Jersey to Bentonville. We’ll hear how that task will be done. And Pearl Brick sings inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio…and talks about leaving college to travel to Key West, losing her voice and her recent return to performing.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has a partial list of events for the MLK Holiday.
The Benton County Children's Advocacy Center recently received reaccreditation. Lake Wedington in Washington County and Shores Lake in Franklin County will soon be partially drained to allow the U.S. Forest Service to allow for some winter maintenance. And Bentonville Public Schools begins to think about names and mascots for its second high school that will be built in Centerton.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, as the state prepares for a busy election year, one county makes changes to its polling sites. Plus, a physical fitness event this weekend celebrates two very different causes, and we visit with a founder of the Soweto Gospel Choir, which is performing tonight at Walton Arts Center.
Arkansas Act 60 of 2003 requires public school districts with less than 350 students to consolidate with other districts in order provide a constitutionally equitable and adequate education. The measure, first implemented, ignited a firestorm of opinion, pitching rural communities against the state department of education and lawmakers. Seven years later, Jacqueline Froelich assesses what happened and some early results.
Roby Brock of talkbusiness.net discusses the latest poll regarding the Arkansas governor's race and if the result will have any impact on races further down the state ballot.
"Butterfly" by Jimmy McGriff
The 11th Insect Festival of Arkansas is Thursday. We have a preview of many of the attractions, including Insect Theatre.
Hear members of the Insect Theatre cast explain their roles and why they love their work here.
"Bumble Bee" by LaVerne Baker
Becca suggest a documentary screening tonight in Springdale.
The Temptations, Billy Lee Riley and more in our history capsule for October 5.
