Dr. Joe Thompson, Arkansas' Surgeon General, spent nearly an hour Tuesday in Fayetteville discussing what coming health care reform could mean for the state. On this edition of Ozarks, some necessary background on what brought health care in the United States and Arkansas to where we are now.
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First Christian Church in Fayetteville is scheduling talks, prayer vigils and fundrasiers to help raise awareness of the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. War has ripped apart the nation since the late 1990s.
For more about the week's events: congoweek.org
For more information about DR Congo: friendsofthecongo.com or runforcongowomen.org.
For more about the week's events: congoweek.org
For more information about DR Congo: friendsofthecongo.com or runforcongowomen.org.
This edition of Ozarks at Large includes a report on Tea Party supporters in Arkansas, one business owner's opinion of Fayetteville's paid parking plan, and the first report in our series on efforts to address sustainability on the University of Arkansas campus.Our first-ever daily show included a conversation with Mayor Lioneld Jordan of Fayetteville. One of the topics we talked about was parking downtown. Today, ten weeks later, a conversation with a downtown businessman about the city's new paid-parking plan.
Monday's aren't slow when it comes to things to do in the fall. Becca has several options for tonight.
On this edition remembering one the Little Rock Nine. A memorial service for Jefferson Thomas is scheduled for tomorrow. Plus the cast of "Digging Up Arkansas" performs in the Firmin-Garner Studio and talks about their musical play about the history of Arkansas. We also learn more about the Ahimsa Rescue Foundation in Muldrow and their benefit tonight in Fort Smith, get a preview of Monday's concert by the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, we learn about undergrounding. Plus, a conversation with the author of "Hanging On Upside Down: The Life and work of Marianne Moore."
Urban planners, state highway department agents, local city officials and residents are holding the first in a series of public meetings to discuss the design and construction of an eastern traffic corridor through Washington and Benton Counties. Jacqueline Froelich attended a Springdale gathering and files this report.
For more information visit nwarpc.org
"What a Day" by Sons of Brasil
Windy Austin, legendary leader of the bands Zorro and the Blue Footballs and The Hot House Tomato Boys, died this month. We talk with a longtime friend about the musician.
More about playing with Windy can be heard here, including the connection between Zorro and the Blue Footballs and The Rolling Stones.
An Arkansas singer is hoping to show how the childhood of Bill Clinton helped shape the future president. She is putting together an opera that is a day in the life the then 14-year-old Clinton growing up in Hot Springs. Reporter Michael Hibblen with KUAR in Little Rock has the story.
Rioting in Los Angeles, a boxer with “Bad Intentions” and more in our history capsule for August 11.
