A Fayetteville Police Department representative recently explained how seized items ended up at city auction at Callaway Auctions in Springdale.Ozarks At Large
A Fayetteville Police Department representative recently explained how seized items ended up at city auction at Callaway Auctions in Springdale..jpg)
Some of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children seeking asylum are making their way to Arkansas. Jacqueline Froelich met with a teenager newly arrived from El Salvador who describes her journey and Springdale attorney, Laura Ferner-Moudy (photo), who is representing her. Supporters of proposals involving Arkansas' minimum wage and regulation of alcohol sales say they have enough signatures to make it to the ballot in November.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, what teeth can tell us about our ancestors. Also, how climate change is affecting the Marshall Islands.Dr. Peter Ungar, an anthropologist at the University of Arkansas, discusses how he looks at teeth to determine the diets of our ancestors and how what we and other animals eat today affects our pearly whites. He is also the author of Teeth: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press.
Roby Brock gives us an update on the Big River Steel project and more in his weekly business update.
Tony deBrum, Foreign Minister for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is on a mission. He’s alerting the world on how his Pacific island nation is starting to submerge due to rising seas caused by climate change. And as witness to a decade of cold-war atmospheric nuclear bomb tests on the Marshalls, Minister deBrum is also calling for global nuclear disarmament. Several groups worked through the weekend to gather signatures for their respective ballot initiatives before the deadline to submit petitions today. Governor Beebe prepares to make his final foreign trade mission during his term in office, and Blanchard Springs Caverns in Stone County is the only cave owned and operated by the U.S. Forest Service that remains open despite a cave closure order aimed at preventing the spread of White Nose Syndrome.
For this holiday weekend we listen again to music recorded inside Firmin-Garner Performance Studio during the first six months of 2014. We hear from:Pearl Brick
Cletus Got Shot
Sweetwater Gypsies
Isayah Wofford
The Riverblenders
Xcluded
Sons of Otis Malone
Finvarra's Wren
Dick Johnson
Elephant Revival
And a weekend update of things to do from Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, July 11, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, how ex-pats in NWA watch the World Cup. And, singer/songwriter Joe Crookston stops by the studio.
Michael Tilley from our content partner www.thecitywire.com discusses the increase in sales tax collections and building permits.
Author Allyson Lewis visited KUAF to discuss her book “The 7 Minute Solution: Creating a Life with Meaning 7 Minutes at a Time” with Kyle Kellams.
“Headphones” by David Kitt
A gallery talk at Crystal Bridges, a Harry Potter movie at the Boone County Library, “Super 8” at the Fayetteville Public Library, an X-Men movie at Rogers Public Library, a choir performance at Har-Ber High School, or a show by country rapper Colt Ford at George’s tonight ought to keep everyone busy in the family. Becca Bacon Martin has the details.
Stage combat master Bret Yount, a McIlroy Family visiting professor at the University of Arkansas, talks about different styles of theatrical combat. Listen to the entire conversation next Tuesday.
“The Adventures of Robin Hood” by Eric Wolfgang Korngold
A few area school districts are among 15 included in Governor Mike Beebe’s “STEM Works" initiative; Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site offers transportation grants to reimburse schools for field trips; and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
