The Arkansas Board of Apportionment approved maps for all 135 redrawn legislative districts on Friday. The new boundaries will force elections in all Senate and House Districts in 2012. Roby Brock from our content partner www.talkbusiness.net talks to political bloggers Jason Tolbert and Michael Cook.
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Lesha Shaver is the owner of Little Mountain Bindery in Fayetteville. She talks about the art of book binding and restoration.
For more information, log on to www.littlemountainbindery.com or visit their Facebook page here.
For a video tour of Lesha’s home studio, click here.
On this edition of Ozarks at Large, the Fayetteville Public Library makes an effort to build a $2 million endowment, and co-editors of ‘Images of America: Fayetteville” talk about the process and joys of working on the book. KUAF’s Robert Ginsberg talks to Hogtown Hot Club’s Jim Jernigan and we begin a week-long series on rock and roll history.
Co-editors of the book Charlie Alison and Ellen Compton talk to Ozarks at Large's Iti Agnihotri-Mudholkar about the lesser-known details of Fayetteville’s history.
For more information or to buy the book, log on to www.arcadiapublishing.com.
Click here to listen to Charlie and Ellen talk about the images they had to leave out of the book.
Meredith Martin Moats grew up in Yell County in the shadow of Arkansas Nuclear One. You can read her blog the Boiled Down Juice at www.meredith-martin.com or visit the Boiled Down Facebook page.
Becca looks ahead to BB&BBQ whose musical lineup now includes Jamey Johnson.
Ozarks at Large’s Tyrel Denison talks about Google+ and how it compares to Facebook.
Grand Lake in northeast Oklahoma is contaminated with a blue green algae toxin. Two others may also be impaired. Are Ozark lakes at risk? We look at the science.Excessive heat warning in effect tonight until 8 o’clock in eastern Oklahoma and Sebastian County in Arkansas; summer drought may have a major impact on Arkansas crops; FEMA hosts a workshop at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock tomorrow to assist Arkansas businesses affected by recent disasters and more – on today’s edition of Ozarks at Large Half Time.
Roby Brock from www.talkbusiness.net spoke with Arkansas’ Second District Congressman Tim Griffin about the economy and how to come to terms on the debt-ceiling discussion.
Click here for more of Roby's conversation with Tim Griffin.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks: if you've been the victim of a violent crime, you may be due more than justice. We speak with the director of the Arkansas Crime Reparations Board to find out the steps to take in order to receive monetary compensation. And, how a dream and a wooden sign were catalysts for a home where girls learn the skills needed to become self-sufficient women. And, we learn about the training regular citizens receive to become volunteer storm spotters.
The University of Arkansas is set to host the 2010 Advances in Breast Cancer Research Workshop October 25th through 29th. The workshop hopes to provide an opportunity to leading breast cancer researchers from disciplines such as biomagnetics, nanotechnology, microwave imaging and biochemistry, to focus and collaborate on "high risk-high gain" research.
For more information visit breastcancer.uark.edu.
It is hard to imagine Eugene Sargent's mind or his hands ever rest. He is a sculptor and works with wood, metals, cement, and other materials. He creates furniture that is art and art that is furniture. He paints and draws. He writes. He makes computer cases out of aluminum and flashlights out of old tent poles. So it makes sense that his studio near Lincoln in Washington County is a pretty astonishing creation, too.
“Hot N Cold,” John Steinbeck and more in our history capsule for October 25.
A birthday party in Rogers tops the list as the Rogers Historical Museum turns 35.
"Brain Liatens" by Drums and Tuba
