
Ozarks At Large


Republican gubernatorial hopeful Asa Hutchinson yesterday announced his plans to cut taxes for middle-income Arkansans, though some disagree about the potential budget impact the plan would have for the state. Fayetteville voters yesterday approved extending the current HMR tax to help fund development of a regional park and to help fund expansion of the Walton Arts Center, which still has quite a bit of fundraising left to do. Bentonville breaks ground on its community center, and two Springdale parks will soon have new bleachers for baseball and softball fields.



The Community Creative Center wants you to try your hand at creativity.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says fall is a prime time for visual arts in the region.
The northwest Arkansas version of a startup weekend means entrepreneurs of all kinds will gather together in Fayetteville beginning Friday night.

The city of Bentonville recently got a grant from the Endeavor Foundation for sidewalk construction in an area with sparse pedestrian infrastructure. Heifer International assesses damage to ongoing projects in the Philippines following the wake of Typhoon Haiyan. This year has seen record corn yields for Arkansas farmers, but that's not necessarily all good news. Today is voting day in Fayetteville to extend a current hotel-motel-restaurant tax. And the UA Soccer team advances to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history.
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, the initial payment to insurance carriers in relation to the state’s private option is in the mail today. And the band SX Rex will explain their name and play two songs inside the Firmin Garner Performance Studio
MacGuffins, a traveling evangelist and more in our history capsule for August 13.
Candy Lee will release her new CD "The Gate" later this month with a release party at Smoke and Barrel in Fayetteville. She let us listen to the CD early and performed in our studio as well.
To hear more from our time with Candy, click here
Bill Clinton gave the keynote address to a gathering sponsored by Economics Arkansas. He discussed the current economic state of affairs. For more of President Clinton's speech, including video click here.
The only Arkansas city with a domestic partnership registry just passed a resolution in support of providing access to health insurance for domestic partners of city workers. The problem is the city's health care insurance provider prohibits such benefits. Jacqueline Froelich reports.