The Arkansas House yesterday finally secured the required supermajority to pass the appropriations bill for the Private Option expansion of Medicaid. And, state revenue comes in below forecast for February.
Ozarks At Large
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, Davy Carter, Speaker of the Arkansas House, talks with Roby Brock about the continuing process to decide funding for the Private Option. And Jim DePriest, a deputy Attorney General for Arkansas, explains how his office combats potential fraud against seniors.
Dayton Castleman's multi-media installation titled "Coin" will soon be on display at Fort Smith Regional Art Museum.
The Arkansas Attorney General's office says fraud, especially schemes aimed at seniors, continues.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, several Arkansas towns have been identified by the University of Arkansas to participate in a sustainability report card program. We speak with Michelle Halsel, managing director of the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas to find out about the program. Plus, the idea of Southern Art History; how we talk about it depends on how we define it.The combination of ice and snow was responsible for changes to schedules all over the state, including a delay in the trial of former Arkansas treasurer Martha Shoffner.
Ahead on this edition of Weekend Ozarks, we meet a cartographer on the Ozark Highlands Trail, just in time for Spring hiking season. Plus, we take a Sunday drive to the roadside cafe, The Valley Inn, for a slice of their famous pie.
We make a stop at the roadside café, the Valley Inn, in Hindsville to learn the history of the restaurant in the small town.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: it has been 60 years since the largest-ever nuclear weapons test by the United States took place on the Marshall Islands' Bikini Atoll. Today, many Marshallese, including several northwest Arkansas residents, are marking the anniversary of the Castle Bravo Blast. Plus, Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gets us ready for the weekend, Michael Tilley from The City Wire helps us analyze the week's news, and more.
Becca Martin Brown, with Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has the plans for Mardi Gras in northwest Arkansas all mapped out.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
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.
The Little Craft Show, the Block Street Holiday Art Sale, and more arts and crafts shows start this weekend.
“Girls Talk” by Dave Edmunds
The United States Postal Service considers closing the Fayetteville mail processing center, the Arkansas Department of Health marked World AIDS Day yesterday, and more – on today’s edition of Ozarks at Large Half-Time.
An appeals court in Tennessee has ruled that Fisk University has unrestricted access to $30 million dollar proceeds from the sale of the "Stieglitz Collection" to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Georgia O'Keeffe donated more than 100 paintings and photographs to the college in 1949, which will now be shared with CBMAA. The decision will be reviewed by the Tennessee Attorney General's office.
Professor Chaim Goodman-Strauss from the University of Arkansas is back on Ozarks at Large with “Math Factor” after a hiatus of two years.
“Welcome Back Kotter” by John Sebastian
Dr. Robert Mueller, the director of the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, discusses the orchestra’s upcoming Monday night concert.
