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.
Ozarks At Large
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.
Ahead on Ozarks, as many prepare for Fourth of July in backyards or fields of fireworks, the ticks are waiting: a new tick-borne illness has been discovered in the South. And The Cate Brothers release a new album, more than thirty years after it was originally recorded.Food, fun and alliteration are all part of an upcoming fundraiser in Rogers.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, July 10, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross. Also, the architect of Crystal Bridges visits Bentonville.
Author Jo McDougall talks to Kyle Kellams about her memoir “Daddy’s Money” and growing up in southern Arkansas.
To listen to more of the conversation, click here.
“Tops in Tempo” by Evelyn Glennie
The University of Arkansas-Fort Smith opens its 2011-12 Season of Entertainment with “Aqua Vita,” a show that combines acrobatics, music and a stage full of water.
Jodi Beznoska of Walton Arts Center talks about the end of summer and what might just cheer us up.
Every decade the U.S. Census Bureau tabulates where we live and who we are, and as results continue to be released, the data indicate an emerging paradigm shift. We hear from a Census Bureau agent about how we too can extrapolate the facts.
“Gene’s Solo Flight” by Gene Krupa
Construction and renovation work on the historic building has begun. It’s due to be completed in August 2013.
(Photo: Rendering of Ozark Hall addition, future home of the Honors College, by Tom Schaller/Robert A.M. Stern Architects and WD&D Architects.)
