On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
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On Saturday, the Northwest Arkansas Center for Equality and P.R.I.D.E.--People Respecting Individual Differences and Equality at the University of Arkansas held a statewide LGBT summit on the UofA campus. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, transgenderism was a key issue.
While about a dozen students of KIPP Delta Public Schools, an open-enrollment charter school network in Blytheville and Helena visited the UA Fayetteville campus yesterday, university officials formally announced a partnership with the public charter school that aims to increase college attainment for students in underserved communities.
Arkansas Lottery Officials update the Legislative Oversight Committee on decreasing lottery revenue. A group advocates at the state capitol for fairer tax laws, and the Ben Geren Aquatics Center moves forward as the first construction bids will soon be awarded.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Northwest Arkansas Rape Crisis Center will soon be able to expand their efforts to survivors of sexual assault, and a traveling exhibit at the University of Arkansas this week wants college students to engage in conversations about hunger.How not to be bored the next few days: standup comedy, a walk around Lake Fayetteville and Arts Live presents a modified musical.
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers says there are drums, guitars and horns in our near future.
Community Health Workers in Arkansas have formed a network to better deliver public health services and share best practices.The rainy weather has caused a delay in planting for some farmers, while late freezes are causing concern for others with winter wheat crops. The state Republican party gets permission to intervene in a lawsuit regarding rules for absentee voters as part of the state's Voter ID law. And Fort Smith directors consider a set of rules regarding how city employees interact with city residents.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a Pea Ridge family works to bring a family member home, a new trail lets walkers, runners and cyclists see a part of northwest Arkansas that's pretty much been a secret, and the lowdown on voodoo from a guest speaker who visited the University of Arkansas campus late last week.
Becca Martin Brown, with Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, gives us a list of free lectures, discussions and more taking place in the next few days.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Friday, June 6, 2014
Ahead on this busy Friday edition of Ozarks, from Pharrell to Harry Connick Jr; celebrities took the stage this morning in Fayetteville for the Walmart Shareholders meeting, where there were also a few business items discussed. And, we take a trip along the Buffalo River nearly a year after a controversial swine breeding operation began business.
Wayne Bell on the albums he’d like to bring along to a deserted island.
Music in the piece included “”Wanna Be Starting Something” by Michael Jackson and “Tired of Being Along” by Al Green.
Local musician Shannon Wurst stops by the studio to discuss her new children's music CD and to perform.
For more information and to buy copies of the album, log on to www.shannonwurst.com.
The Arkansas Department of Health is opening a satellite clinic later this summer in Springdale to serve migrant Marshallese and immigrant Hispanic residents.
Poet CD Wright talks about her friend Margaret McHugh, a white homemaker from rural Arkansas who left her town, husband, and seven children to join a small band of black activists on a march from West Memphis to Little Rock.
“My Sweet Potato” by Booker T. & the MGs
Mark Landon Smith on Arts Live Theater’s summer camp, award event and upcoming shows.
