The 21st Cancer Challenge is just one of many ways to support nonprofits in the area this month.
Ozarks At Large
A recent study suggests that Arkansas' two racetrack and gaming complexes have a sizable impact on the state's economy. Fayetteville Public Schools prepares to offer free meals to city youths through the summer, and an effort to raise the state's minimum wage gets a groundswell of support.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, Republican Attorney General runoff candidates discuss medical marijuana and the death penalty. Also, we take a look back at the desegregation of public swimming pools.
In this month’s food segment, we visit the Arkansas Food Innovation Center where the Roberts family makes Gina’s Salsa. 
Later this month, Siloam Springs will be home to a Whitewater Recreation Park, the first of its kind in the state.
Memorial Day marks the opening of public swimming pool season across America. And this summer, an article about pools and race will be published in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly, titled “Going off the Deep End: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Desegregation of Little Rock’s Public Swimming Pools.” Jacqueline Froelich spoke with author and historian John Kirk.Officials with the U.S. Marshals Museum yesterday approved its 2015 budget, which includes allocations for architectural, exhibit and operational costs. President Clinton speaks to the role presidential libraries serve in providing historical context, and state revenue numbers for May came in below what economists expected.
Ahead on Ozarks, workforce officials try to improve job training to meet industry demands. And, we look at the University of Arkansas' autism intervention program.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, June 23, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, coverage from a groundbreaking ceremony for Bentonville's new high school. Plus, a conversation with the author of “The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness.”
More of downtown Rogers may soon be put on the National Register of Historic Places, the U of A in Fayetteville gets good press, and the Northwest Arkansas Naturals slide through the end of the season.
“Mai Nozipo” by Kronos Quartet
The Ozark dialect is rooted in Appalachia and traces back to the British Isles, yet it can elicit a certain stigma. Susan Young with the Shiloh Museum of Ozark history, a fifth generation Arkansan, lectures widely on her culture and dialect. We bring her into the studio to talk Ozark.
Roby Brock talks to Steve Brauner about the possible (and confirmed) ballot measures Arkansas voters will see in November.
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Becca Martin Brown, from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, says tonight the music faculty at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith will dance, sing and more . . . for free!
Michael Hibblin talks to Dr. Ruth Hawkins about the progress made in Arkansas State University’s work on the iconic singer’s home in the Arkansas Delta.
