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.
A sizable grant from the Walmart Foundation will help the NWA Children's Shelter continue to provide essential services for the area's children. The Benton County assessor's and collector's office in Gravette will soon move. The City of Fayetteville installs a charging station for electric vehicles, only the fifth in NWA. And a religious scholar weighs in on Pope Francis's recent comments in Brazil regarding homosexuals.
"Water of Life" by Wuthering Heights
The Arkansas Department of Human Service’s Medicaid Division is organizing a new "premium assistance" program. Arkansas is the only state to take an innovative market-based approach to Medicaid expansion under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Bill Halter has withdrawn from the race for the Democratic nomination for governor. Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, examines what the development means for the 2014 Arkansas political landscape.
From a folk music festival, to aspiring musicians playing on the square, running through the Boston Mountains and getting a free lunch box in Springdale, several events are happening soon throughout the area.
"Bronte" by Gotye
A quick preview of events at Rogers Historical Museum and the Fort Smith Museum of History.
"Little Boy Blue" by Robert Lockwood, Jr.
