Yesterday's runoff elections settled the GOP side of the ticket for this year's election for Arkansas Attorney General, but yesterday's runoffs may also have implications for funding the state's Private Option next year. Meanwhile, state legislators this week debated whether public schools should be allowed to tie onto the fiber optic network used by the state's higher education institutions, and Fort Smith Public Schools' summer meals program for youths gets underway.
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Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, an update on HIV services in northwest Arkansas, and a review of the latest release by St. Paul and the Broken Bones.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers offers a brief preview of the Eureka Springs Blues Weekend.
Arkansas has one of the highest rates of people living with HIV but don’t know it. To receive an HIV test, you can go to your county health department. To reach the Washington County HIV clinic call 479-973-4613. Testing and support are available at an ARCare HIV Office, for information or to find an office near you, click here or call 501-388-4613. For information on support and social groups through HIV Arkansas, visit hivarkansas.org Tyson Foods yesterday announced that Hillshire Brands had accepted its $8.5 billion acquisition bid over a smaller acquisition by Pinnacle Foods. Senator John Boozman returns to Washington, D.C. more than a month after undergoing emergency heart surgery, and a new effort aiming at legalizing cannabis gets underway in Arkansas.
Diatoms are microscopic, but vital, parts of life. Research at the University of Arkansas is finding out more about them.
Roby Brock from Talk Business & Politics discusses a new EPA proposal and more in his business and political news recap.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, how to stay safe and entertained this summer. Also, we learn about a tick-borne illness called bobcat fever that's affecting local cats.
Nuclear weapons, the smell of “Teen Spirit” and more in our history capsule for September 24.
“Le Pont Royal” by Kyle Eastwood
Sunday afternoon the second opera in this season's John Harrison Opera Foundation series will be screened, for free, at the Stella Boyle Smith Fine Arts Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus. It will feature, as do all six screenings this year, Rene Flemming. And it is a relatively
recent opera, "A Streetcar named Desire".
“Breathe” by Leaves
The inaugural music festival will benefit Clear Springs School. Stevie Tombstone is one of the scheduled performers and he spoke with Ozark at Large's Antoinette Grajeda earlier this week.
Black tea, both iced and hot, is a popular drink around the world. In the American South we tend to drink it cold and sweet. And then there are those who prefer it fermented, called Kombucha. As part of our occasional series on beverages, Jacqueline Froelich reports.
"Norweigan Wood" by Kurt Elling
Friday night's high school football game between Bentonville and Fayetteville completes a week dedicated to cancer education at the two schools.
