We visit a Knit Night and visit with local knitters about the ways to knit both old and new.
Ozarks At Large
The Arkansas Highway Transportation Department received much criticism of how it handled cleanup of the recent winter storm. Karen Tricot Steward from our Content partner KUAR checked in with AHTD' in this report.
Becca Martin Brown has more on the Moscow Classical Ballet's performance of the Nutcracker this weekend.
Preventing holiday theft can be as simple as locking your doors, we talk to a Fayetteville police officer about an education effort that is underway.
From Bentonville to Siloam Springs, many area downtowns are undergoing major redevelopment. Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas talks with Mike Malone CEO of the Northwest Arkansas Council about that organizations efforts in the cause.The recently released State of Credit report provides many insights to the credit behaviors of Millennials and other generations. We talk to two credit experts about what the numbers mean, and how they can be changed.
Lieutenant Governor Mark Darr was reportedly apologetic to the Arkansas Ethics Commission yesterday, when he answered to allegations of misuse of campaign and personal expense money. Senator John Boozman yesterday voted against the two-year, bipartisan budget deal. Hewlett Packard announces some jobs will return to its Conway facility. The U of A in Fayetteville announces its next associate vice chancellor of University Relations. And a new medical school could be coming to Fort Smith.
The King Opera House in Van Buren has seen many changes since it first opened in 1901. We pay a visit to learn about the many roles it has played over the course of more than a century.The deadline to apply for the Arkansas Festival Grant Program, which has been organized by the Arkansas Agriculture Department, is January 24, 2014.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, Roby Brock takes a look at the state's Lt. Governor's race. Also, the Springdale Police Department is offering a period of warrant amnesty for the next week.
Authors Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis visited KUAF’s Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to discuss the phenomenon of “digital assassination.” The authors approached the subject as reputation experts.
To listen to the authors discuss a wrongful Wikipedia entry that accused Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s long-time assistant John Seigenthaler Sr. of being involved in the former Attorney General’s assassination, click here.
Ozarks at Large’s Sophie Kid spoke with a local musician and an audiologist about a BBC report released this summer warning classical musicians regarding the dangers of suffering hearing loss due to exposure to loud concert music.
To hear more, click here.
“Run” by Air
A lecture in honor of American Indian Heritage Month is this evening at 6 p.m. in the Giffels Auditorium on the University of Arkansas campus, and a jazz performance by the UAFS Jazz Band and UAFS Jazz Lab Ensemble will be at Second Street Live in Fort Smith.
Blogger and columnist Meredith Martin Moats discusses her observations about how we learn to speak.
You can visit her blog at www.boileddownjuice.com.
“Talk” by Coldplay
Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice visited Blytheville Friday. Johnathan Reeves from our content partner KASU in Jonesboro has this report.
