Last Friday, the state Pollution Control and Ecology Commission discussed a new swine factory farm under construction in Newton County.
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Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas says tax cuts and the proposed Steel Mill super project had lawmakers' attention last week.
An aging coal-fired power station in Gentry, known as Flint Creek, requires an expensive retrofit to meet new EPA regulations. But opponents see an opportunity to retire the plant and pursue alternative energy. A public hearing on the matter is scheduled before the Arkansas Public Service Commission on March 28th.The Arkansas General Assembly advances legislation that would bar minors from buying E-cigarettes, as well as legislation that would prohibit the naming of public buildings after actively serving lawmakers. Area school districts are ranked on their online transparency, and the Diamond Hogs finally win on the road, all in today's Segment A.
Ahead on this weekend edition of Ozarks, we get some basic tips for hiking, Feed Fayetteville gets new headquarters, and more. Here are the ten clips in our montage about Alcatraz this morning:
1) Elvis Presley sings Jailhouse Rock.
2) Paul Muni near the end of the 1931 gem, I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang.
3) Sam Cooke’s version of Chain Gang.
4) Clint Eastwood ponders his future in Escape From Alcatraz.
5) The Clash cover I Fought the Law, originally a hit by the Bobby Fuller Four.
6) Robert Redford tries to find where the bodies are buried in Brubaker.
7) Burt Lancaster welcomes back a friend in Birdman of Alcatraz.
8) The Foggy Bottom Boys’ version of In the Jailhouse Now from O Brother! Where Art Thou.
9) Robert De Niro as Al Capone in the Untouchables. Capone was an Alcatraz resident.
10) Johnny Cash sings Folsom Prison Blues.
Harmony will play at Arts Center of the Ozarks this week. Becca Martin Brown says the band has noticed a change in their audiences over the past four decades.
A preview of the now-expanded Blues in the Natural State Festival in downtown Fayetteville next month.
The Blues in the Natural State Festival spreads out over two day and multiple stages in downtown Fayetteville next month. Legislators dealt with bills about highway funding and tattoos. Plus new acquisitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Audio for news brief on Rep. Warick Sabin provided by David Cox.
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Monday, December 2, 2013
On this edition of Ozarks, a united effort to protect the single largest source of drinking water in northwest Arkansas. The Beaver Watershed Alliance wants to use information, muscle and policy to protect the water around us. Plus the Fayetteville Jazz Collective is getting ready for a big holiday concert.
The alt-country band Damn Arkansan credits Smoke and Barrel Tavern for helping them make it as a band, so they helped organize a benefit concert to help the bar buy a new sound system.
Web Exclusive: Video of Damn Arkansan Inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio
Arkansas' delegation in the U.S. Senate sounds off about plans by the United States Postal Service to end Saturday delivery of mail. The Arkansas legislature works on a bill aimed at fixing the state's lethal injection law. And a program that last year raised awareness about where trash in street-side storm drains ends up returns to northwest Arkansas for a second year.
"I Feel The Earth Move" by Lonnie smith
In reaction to President Obama’s gun control mandate, the Arkansas General Assembly is considering a half dozen gun-rights bills, including reintroducing a measure allowing gun owners to openly carry loaded weapons. We also drop by a Springdale gun shop, where business is beyond booming.
Tomorrow the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas will host its annual Business Forecast Luncheon in Rogers.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business discusses the state's financial role in a super project announced earlier this year with State Senator Bruce Maloch.
"Earthquake" by David Holmes
