To celebrate five years in the Jefferson Center, Fayetteville Adult & Community Education hosted an open house.
Ozarks At Large
Roby Brock, from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas, continues his series of conversations with candidates seeking statewide office.A kick-off event for open enrollment to Arkansas Health Connector is announced for next month. The city of Fayetteville considers revamping certain height and setback regulations for development in the city's downtown area. And, several school millage increases are passed.
On this edition of Ozarks, increasing internet access for Arkansans. Also, how legislators are dealing with a deficit for the public school employees health plan.
The just-published Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music has entries about the most famous Arkansas musicians like Johnny Cash and Louis Jordan. It also has lesser known, but still very important, figures like the musician known as Moondog and Bob Burns.
Carroll County’s Quorum Court failed to secure an ordinance to establish public rural water system several years ago, after voters repealed it, claiming the project was being pushed and controlled by a minority of developers. But now the QC’s water committee is looking to convince a majority of residents to support a more transparent public water facilities board-facilitated project.Becca talks about a safe with an interesting pass that will be on display at in Cane Hill this weekend.
Arkansas is ranked near the bottom in terms of states' residents being connected to the Internet. We look at the implications this might have for education, and efforts to try and bridge the digital divide.
State Representatives Allen Kerr and Greg Leding talk to Roby Brock and his Capitol View co-host David Goins talk about legislators trying to resolve the issue of public school employees facing premium increases in January. The Arkansas Red Cross is sending people to help with flood recovery efforts in Colorado, and six months after the Pegasus pipeline rupture in Mayflower, another company proposes building a new pipeline to transport jet fuel across Arkansas.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, January 27, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, two University of Arkansas graduates take us back to the 1927 Mississippi River Flood in their novel "Tilted World." Plus, Benton County residents prepare to head to the polls to determine who should pay for rural ambulance services, and our weekly installment of Arkansongs and more.
Becca says there are some free entertainment options tonight. Others, with a fee, benefit non-profits.
Evidence" by Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk
PJ Robowski guides us through the creation of the soundtrack for the 1941 film noir classic.
On August 30, the University of Arkansas Architecture Department will begin its annual lecture series. The first film that will be screened focuses on a design/build education program in Alabama. The documentary examines architecture’s role in issues of poverty, class, race, education, social change and citizenship.
For more information on the documentary, visit citizenarchitectfilm.com.
Remember as a child, playing with your shadow in bright sunlight? Twisting and turning, casting it about? For two Fayetteville women, their shadows became grist for both a transcendental workshop held this summer and an art exhibit. "Me and My Shadow" a collaborative photo collection by Joy Caffrey and Amy Eversole will be on display at Crossover Arsaga's through August.
To learn more, visit joymatters.com.
