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21c Museum Hotel in Bentonville is continuing to offer manager docent tours at 5 p.m. every Wednesday and Friday. Becca Martin Brown says the monthly activites may be a bit hard to keep up with, but a little effort is worth it.
Roby Brock from Talk Business Arkansas discusses Arkansas politics with bloggers Michael Cook and Jason Tolbert.The state Department of Corrections is looking for a vendor for pharmaceuticals used in lethal injections. Several hundred-thousand-dollars will be given out in reparations to victims of crimes during the month of May. The Bentonville School District continues its push toward a millage election in September, and the city of Fayetteville considers an ordinance that would place restrictions on door-to-door solicitation.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a recent poll by the Blair Center shows that the opinions of people with similar backgrounds aren't all that similar. Plus, how carpenter bees get into your house without the use of tiny hammers, and a preview of this week's LPGA tournament in Rogers.
The NWA Championship begins today and this year, organizers want to make the 17th hole the loudest hole in golf.A recent poll conducted by a pair of University of Arkansas System entities asked about attitudes toward immigration.
Two Democrats announced their candidacy for Lieutenant Governor, plus the state and federal government files suit against Exxon-Mobil for its handling of the Mayflower oil spill. Roby Brock with our content partner Talk Business Arkansas has those stories and more in his weekly review of business and political stories.Answer Fort Smith has just completed renovation of a larger facility for its telephone answering services, creating space for more employees. Gas prices rise slightly in Arkansas, though the national average dropped over the past week. Two Democratic candidates for statewide office endorse each other, and Governor Mike Beebe wants more to be done to end childhood hunger in the state.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: remembering the Ozark Folk Fair from forty years ago. The headliners included some of the top names in blues, rock, folk and bluegrass, but the event is all but forgotten now. Plus northwest Arkansas ranchers rally to help out farmers in South Dakota who lost cattle because of bad weather and local non-profits embrace Giving Tuesday.
January may be quiet at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, but it isn't lazy.
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Wayne Bell sits down to offer analysis about the Oscar nominations announced last week.
"Girl of the North Country" by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
Governor Beebe used his state of the state address today to talk briefly about his plans to further cut the state grocery tax. Meanwhile, a state grant is set to help Fayetteville residents recycle unwanted electronics waste. And, Walmart makes a pair of announcements today; one involving the hiring of veterans and the other centered on purchasing more domestically produced goods.
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>Before today's state of the state address delivered to a joint session of the Arkansas legislature, Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas sat down with Governor Mike Beebe last week to ask questions submitted by listeners about the 2013 state legislative session.
Last week, Fort Smith officials were introduced to the idea of holding an urban deer hunt to help control deer populations in the Chaffee Crossing area. There was some concern about the safety of conducting such hunts in the city, but Ozarks at Large’s Timothy Dennis discovers that safety is not an afterthought in planning these urban hunts
