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.
Winner of 2011 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize Danielle Deulen stops by KUAF's Harold and Blanche Caulk News Studio to discuss her work.
Dance, music, books and Pettigrew Day will keep Northwest Arkansans entertained.
"I Can Almost See Clearly Now" by Charles Hammer
Community Clinic, based in Springdale, provides medical care to the working poor of Northwest AR. With satellite offices in Rogers and Siloam Springs, it now seeks to expand into South Washington County. But as Jacqueline Froelich reports, its funding is caught up in federal Congressional budget wrangling.
CAST researchers at the University of Arkansas helped National Geographic Magazine re-create Machu Picchu for the cover of its April issue.
"Toboggan" by Breathe Owl Breathe
UA Percussion Ensemble, and Drew Holcombe and the Neighbors perform today.
