Becca Martin Brown has some (but not all) of the suggestions for warm-weather music here.
Ozarks At Large
On this Election Day in Arkansas, the three GOP candidates seeking their party's nomination for attorney general talk to Roby Brock from Talk Business and Politics.
The Veterans’ Health Care System of the Ozarks, based in Fayetteville, has installed a large solar array on it’s forested campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, the alternative energy project is part of an ambitious U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs environmental program.
Speaker of the Arkansas House wants to call a special session of the state legislature to deal with problems with the insurance program for public school employees, and Crawford County officials are hopeful that county voters will approve a sales tax increase that would help the county build a new jail.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, taking steps to improve juvenile justice in Arkansas, and the brand new Hope Supply Center in Bentonville helps those diagnosed with breast cancer in many ways.
Last Friday, the Hope Supply Center, a service of the Breast Cancer Society, opened on Walton Blvd. The center will offer supplies, such as wigs and bras, to those affected by breast cancer. Becca says that there will be plenty of opportunities to hear about architecture as a new lecture series begins at Crystal Bridges.
Bo Bartlett and Betsy Eby collaborated on a documentary about their years-long art road trip. They discussed the project while at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art last month.
Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business and Politics, looks back at a busy week in Arkansas.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, June 6, 2014
Ahead on this busy Friday edition of Ozarks, from Pharrell to Harry Connick Jr; celebrities took the stage this morning in Fayetteville for the Walmart Shareholders meeting, where there were also a few business items discussed. And, we take a trip along the Buffalo River nearly a year after a controversial swine breeding operation began business.
If voters fail to approve an $85 rural ambulance fee, Siloam Springs will no longer respond to 911 calls in rural areas surrounding the city.
Roby Brock has the latest in this week's Talk Business Arkansas update.
"Stay" by Rihanna
"Tilted World" by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly, both University of Arkansas graduates, takes readers inside a different era,when Prohibition was big business and foot travel was as likely as horse or car travel in rural Mississippi. The two will read from their novel Friday evening at Nightbird Books in Fayetteville.
"Skyfall" by Adele
University of Arkansas Fort Smith's "Read This" 2014 book is "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
"Young Lion" by Vampire Weekend, and at end of show: "Vernon is a Company Man" by Les Claypool
From Benton and Crawford counties to Little Rock, this edition of the Week in Review covers stories from across the area and state.
