Michael Tilley from The City Wire talks about a campaign developing to allow for liquor sales in Crawford County as well as the latest snag for the proposed Sebastian County Aquatic Park. Ozarks At Large
Michael Tilley from The City Wire talks about a campaign developing to allow for liquor sales in Crawford County as well as the latest snag for the proposed Sebastian County Aquatic Park. 
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, what goes into a TED talk. Also, musicians from the band Cutty Rye discuss and perform songs from their upcoming album. Ahead on Ozarks: Gubernatorial candidate Bill Halter sits down for a conversation, pondering the hows and whys of a sinkhole in Benton County and the band Water Liars play a pair of songs inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
The Oxford, MS duo of Justin (Pete) Kinkel-Schuster, guitar/lead vocals, and Andrew Bryant percussion, piano, vocals, just released a new album called "Wyoming" on Fat Possum's Big Legal Mess label. They played a show Mar. 9 at Nightbird Books and stopped by to play some songs in the Firmin-Garner Performance studio prior to the night's show.
To hear the musicians discuss why they love the poet Frank Stanford, check out this audio extra.Arkansas could get off easier than originally estimated on the cost of insuring the state’s population of working poor through private plans in the state’s insurance exchange, rather than through Medicaid.
On the night of March 1st, a huge sinkhole appeared on a historic farm in Springtown in southwestern Benton County. No one was hurt, nor were any structures involved in the collapse. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, the ecologically sensitive karst site remains at risk.
To see more photos from the site, click here. Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: the state’s first-ever birth center is in northwest Arkansas. Plus, the future of transportation in Fayetteville discussed. Dave Barry is coming to the Fayetteville Public Library next month. We’ll include an interview with him on a future edition of our program, but to kick off spring break week, a small preview of that conversation.
To learn more about Dave Barry’s appearance in Fayetteville: www.faylib.org.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, the history behind today's St. Patrick's Day holiday, plus a hog farm moves into the Buffalo River area.Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers tells us that Spring Break is scarcely long enough to fit in all of the activities going on this week.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2016
On this edition of Ozarks, a conversation with House speaker designate Jeremy Gillam. Plus, we tour a compounding pharmacy in Johnson.
Roby Brock gives us an update on the Big River Steel project and more in his weekly business update.
Becca says kids activities for this week include a fishing derby tomorrow.
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.
The latest state revenue report shows a surplus for the end of the fiscal year. State and local leaders celebrated the opening of the 71-B Flyover last night in Fayetteville, and Rogers is working on building a new, modern fire station for the central part of the city.
The Oklahoma Department of Health has confirmed the state's first death due to Heartland virus—a new tick-borne illness discovered in the mid-South. So far no cases have been documented in Arkansas. Jacqueline Froelich spoke with an Oklahoma epidemiologist to find out the status of the virus and how to avoid be bitten.
