Ozarks At Large
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Monday night, three of the first African-American men to play football at the University of Arkansas shared some of their playing-days’ stories at the University of Arkansas Library. Monday afternoon, a few hour before the panel discussion, the three athletes: Brison Manor, Johnnie Meadors and Dennis Winston met with reporters to talk about being recruited in the early 1970s to the University.

Becca Martin Brown uses puns to tell us about all of the theater shows happening throughout the area this weekend.
More than six million people, including many in Arkansas, still receive Social Security payments in the form of checks. But by March the Social Security check will be a remnant of the past. March First is the target date for all recipients to receive Social Security payments by direct deposit or by a direct card. Walt Henderson is with the United States Treasury Department. For more information: www.GoDirect.com or 800-333-1795.
Some GOP members of Arkansas’ legislature are asking Governor Beebe’s administration to slow down the process for possible Medicaid expansion in the state, more than one thousand residents of Fort Smith will be asked their opinions about their city next month as part of a project called the National Citizen Survey, and more.
Sheffield Nelson suspends his effort to get the severance tax question on the November ballot, new numbers for how Arkansas is doing in child wellness, and more.

Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: how soup in Ft. Smith can help some area children have a better weekend. Plus students at the University of Arkansas will be in charge of soup, salad and everything else at the Crescent Hotel for an upcoming weekend. We also have a wrap up of the month ahead in visual arts and go to a church to learn more about how art and faith can be closely related.
Becca Martin Brown gives us the quick facts about Fleur Delicious in Eureka Springs.
Summer is here and the ways to avoid boredom are plentiful.
Loud Pipes by Ratatat
In this month's music's review, we listen to Time for Three's new, self-titled album.
Music at End of Show: Ice Machine in the Desert by Brave Combo
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.
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.