Summer is here and the ways to avoid boredom are plentiful.
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Some of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children seeking asylum are making their way to Arkansas. Jacqueline Froelich met with a teenager newly arrived from El Salvador who describes her journey and Springdale attorney, Laura Ferner-Moudy (photo), who is representing her. Supporters of proposals involving Arkansas' minimum wage and regulation of alcohol sales say they have enough signatures to make it to the ballot in November.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, what teeth can tell us about our ancestors. Also, how climate change is affecting the Marshall Islands.Dr. Peter Ungar, an anthropologist at the University of Arkansas, discusses how he looks at teeth to determine the diets of our ancestors and how what we and other animals eat today affects our pearly whites. He is also the author of Teeth: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press.
Roby Brock gives us an update on the Big River Steel project and more in his weekly business update.
Tony deBrum, Foreign Minister for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is on a mission. He’s alerting the world on how his Pacific island nation is starting to submerge due to rising seas caused by climate change. And as witness to a decade of cold-war atmospheric nuclear bomb tests on the Marshalls, Minister deBrum is also calling for global nuclear disarmament. Several groups worked through the weekend to gather signatures for their respective ballot initiatives before the deadline to submit petitions today. Governor Beebe prepares to make his final foreign trade mission during his term in office, and Blanchard Springs Caverns in Stone County is the only cave owned and operated by the U.S. Forest Service that remains open despite a cave closure order aimed at preventing the spread of White Nose Syndrome.
For this holiday weekend we listen again to music recorded inside Firmin-Garner Performance Studio during the first six months of 2014. We hear from:Pearl Brick
Cletus Got Shot
Sweetwater Gypsies
Isayah Wofford
The Riverblenders
Xcluded
Sons of Otis Malone
Finvarra's Wren
Dick Johnson
Elephant Revival
And a weekend update of things to do from Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers.
Ahead on Ozarks, as many prepare for Fourth of July in backyards or fields of fireworks, the ticks are waiting: a new tick-borne illness has been discovered in the South. And The Cate Brothers release a new album, more than thirty years after it was originally recorded.Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, July 14, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, more than 3,000 Arkansas children are in foster care custody on any single day. A new report has suggestions on how to better serve these young people. Plus, Arkansas native Louis Jordan's forays into the Caribbean and Calypso in today's edition of Arkansongs, and we hear how the four men running for Governor of Arkansas responded when asked about the legality of same-sex marriage
Michael Tilley from our content partner www.thecitywire.com has updates regarding a possibility that Caterpillar might take the place of Whirlpool in Fort Smith, ticket designers and printers Weldon, Williams & Lick, Inc. located in Fort Smith printing tickets for the 2012 London Olympics, and more.
Illustrator Otto Lang’s exhibit “Drawing from Life” will be displayed at the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center in University of Arkansas-Fort Smith through March 30. Ray Wylie Hubbard performs at George’s in Fayetteville tonight. Becca Bacon Martin from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers has the details.
“The 49th Day” by El Ten Eleven
The Berryville group has served undernourished and unhealthy animals in Belize since 2008. Carroll County Vets Without Borders makes its fifth trip starting tomorrow.
Legendary musician Johnny Cash’s home in east Arkansas town of Dyess is being renovated. Michael Hibblen from our content partner KUAR in Little Rock, reports.
Jodi Beznoska from Walton Arts Center has information about Broadway shows, a TheatreSquared play, Taiko drumming, and two legendary musicians visiting northwest Arkansas.
“Blue Suede Shoes” by Jimi Hendrix
