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Ozarks At Large
For our monthly series Three Things we ask a Peace Corps recruiter what we should know about the organization.
Roby Brock and Dr. Jay Barth, Professor of Political Science at Hendrix College, look at some of the season’s political ads and poll results of Republican voters.Ben E. Keith Foods announces it will add more than 70 jobs to the state's economy, and some law experts say that its unsurprising that a number of counties stopped issuing marriage certificates for same-sex couples after doing so for a few days.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Roby Brock discusses the final week of campaigning before primary election day and if Judge Chris Piazza's ruling striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage will have any impact on those races. Plus, a return to a favorite CD from several summers ago; can the music still evoke the same response? And, a report on a multi-million dollar campaign targeting the Southern closet.In this month’s music review, we revisit an album of summer’s past. Abra Moore’s “Strangest Places” was released in 1995, but the whimsical folk vibes have us rolling down our windows and driving to the tunes again this year.
Discussing faith and religion does not have to create an argument.
Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, continues her week-long survey of what kids around the region can do this summer.
Last night, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization based in Washington DC, announced an $8.5 million push into Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. And as Jacqueline Froelich reports, HRC’s President, Chad Griffin, an Arkansas native, says its time to open the “Southern closet.”
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas discusses the last week of campaigning before Arkansas' primary election voting ends.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
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.
An Arkansas-based company is leading the way for smart cables in commercial buildings. Roby Brock of www.talkbusiness.net has the story.
The Wal-Mart Foundation yesterday presented a $650,000 check to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to help the Little Rock and northwest Arkansas campuses communicate.
"Where's Sly?" by Medeski Martin and Wood
Jacqueline Froelich reports that Arkansas advocates seeking the legal right to openly carry loaded firearms, holstered, in public, are hoping to pass such a law during the next Arkansas General Assembly. In a poll conducted by the anti-gun group, the Brady Campaign, a majority of Americans oppose open carry laws.
Michale Tilley of www.thecitywire.com talks about a deluge of financial numbers and what they mean for Fort Smith, western Arkansas and the entire state. To see the reports, visit www.thecitywire.com.
