Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, gives us a preview of a weekend with just about everything.
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USDA Forest Service officials gathered with tribal foresters and scientists for an annual three-day conference in Fayetteville last week. Jacqueline Froelich met with three indigenous participants to talk about traditional ecological and cultural practices.
Web Exclusive: An Extended Interview With Everett Walker
Roby Brock and Scott Inmann, from Talk Business and Politics, host a roundtable discussion about what recent polls may mean for upcoming elections in Arkansas.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Mexico's history is long, rich and often misunderstood. We talk with a historian who has written eleven books on the subject. Plus, a conversation with a gubernatorial candidate who cites his business background as sufficient experience to serve in higher office in the state. And, a preview of the inaugural Homegrown Festival, debuting next week in Siloam Springs
American Native is one of several local vendors participating in the inaugural Homegrown Festival in Siloam Springs next week. That, and other performances, are happening in the area today.
Roby Brock talks with GOP gubernatorial hopeful Curtis Coleman as Talk Business Arkansas continues a series with 2014 candidates.The Arkansas Lottery Commission approves video games like keno to be used in the state. The ACLU of Arkansas files suit against the state for its new voter ID law. And recently passed ordinances concerning urban agriculture and food trucks take effect today in Fayetteville.
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.
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Friday, May 23, 2014
On this edition of Ozarks, we take a look at a new study that analyzes high school graduation rates in Arkansas. Also Dick Johnson stops by the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.
The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery has started selling tickets through easy to use vending machines. Officials say players will find them more convenient and secure.
Our Energy Corp correspondent, Christina Thomas, reports on a week-long program that hopes to help veterans make a transition into another livelihood.
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Michael Tilley, editor and publisher of www.thecitywire.com, discusses Fort Smith's financial numbers for April.
“Turkish March” by Frank Vignola
Becca says listeners have a lot of great events that they must choose from this evening.
FHS senior Cheyenne Larsen reads a poem about her “third place.”
“Last Dance With Mary Jane” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
