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.
But why do we throw confetti when we celebrate or party? We consult America’s top confetti expert.
The Fayetteville Public Library is in the middle of an effort to build a $2 million endowment for its humanities collections and programming.
Co-editors of the book Charlie Alison and Ellen Compton talk to Ozarks at Large's Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar about the lesser-known details of Fayetteville’s history.
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Click here to listen to Charlie and Ellen talk about the images they had to leave out of the book.
A University of Arkansas professor researches the effect of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man on Italian stereotypes.
A Civil War exhibit in Van Buren, the Artists of Northwest Arkansas show in Springdale, Jonathan Harris Abstracts and Landscapes in Rogers, and more on today’s list of things to do.
“A Little Less Conversation” by Elvis Presley
