A new-grant funded program will allow 40 low-income children to attend preschool in Bentonville free.
Ozarks At Large
Our KUAF Summer Jazz Concert Series may be underway, but Ozarks at Large “bird man,” Joe Neal has discovered jazz in the woods, performed by the illustrious thrush quartet! Joe Neal is coauthor of “Arkansas Birds,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. His latest book “In the Province of Birds, a Western Arkansas Memoir,” is published by Half-Acre Press. A new-grant funded program will allow 40 low-income children to attend preschool in Bentonville free.
Ahead on Ozarks, a novel source to help us celebrate the Fourth…a British journalist explains how simply following a ten dollar bill around the middle of America for a month gave him insight into the country…and why he loved what he found. Then, it's a birthday party for the Fayetteville Farmer’s Market…it turns forty this week and we'll chat with the co-managers. Plus Robert Ginsburg gets us ready for the 15th annual KUAF Summer Jazz Series. It kicks off this month with Arkansas-born Bob Dorough. And Becca Martin Brown has some fireworks information for us as well.Steve Boggan, a journalist from London, followed a ten dollar bill around the US, including Arkansas, for thirty days. What he learned he put in his book, Follow the Money.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a look at the current landscape of politics in Arkansas. Also, learning how to care for livestock participating in the Rodeo of the Ozarks.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, spoke recently at the Clinton School of Public Service. While in Arkansas he talked with Roby Brock of Talk Business Arkansas.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks…the ill-fated effort to have the White River Watershed designated as a National Blueway. It would have been just the second river to have that designation. Plus Stewart Towns talks to Christina Thomas about his book Enduring Legacy: Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause. He says the oratory of confederate veterans in the years after the Civil War ended has influenced much of the south’s perspective since.
In his book Enduring Legacy: Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause, Stuart Towns argues that without the words expressed during and after the Civil War, the Lost Cause movement in the American South would not have been what it was. Christina Thomas speaks with Towns about the oral history of the Lost Cause and how it has influenced the region today.Arkansas's new state treasurer is reshaping policies of the office based on input from employees of the division. The 2014 fiscal year begins today with a new budget for the state, which includes increased spending for Medicaid and higher education. Today is the deadline for public input on the state's new voter ID law. Political commentators ruminate on Tom Cotton's chances for running a successful Senate campaign against Mark Pryor. And, Benton County starts looking at building a new courts building to replace the current one, built in 1928.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the names of some publications like Time or Southern Living give readers a literal idea of what's printed on their pages, but what about 3W or Due South? We take a look at the thought behind the titles of some of the magazines published in our region. Plus, we talk with Roby Brock about some of the repercussions of Tuesday's primary runoff elections.
Dave Baer made the drive from near Ponca to the Carver Center for Public Radio for his first visit to Ozarks at Large. He talks about writing songs and plays a couple as well.
Still no House vote on the Private Option, though a House committee forwarded a Senate bill to leave the Lt. Governor's office vacant until November, and Axciom made it's third and potentially final round of layoffs, expected to save the company between 20 and 30 million dollars.
"Hope Springs Eternal" by Capecaillie
More than 200 Arkansas public schools this winter received a piece of a $7 million dollar cream pie, under the Arkansas School Recognition and Reward Program. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, two of the schools are in Huntsville’s District.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (www.agfc.com) is looking at buying a 42-acre plot of land north of Jasper to expand operations.
The Butterfield Trail Elementary Archery Team came in first place in a recent regional tournament. We meet the 24 member team during an after school practice as they prepare to head to the state tournament.
